Nonlocal Means-Based Denoising for Medical Images

Medical images often consist of low-contrast objects corrupted by random noise arising in the image acquisition process. Thus, image denoising is one of the fundamental tasks required by medical imaging analysis. Nonlocal means (NL-means) method provides a powerful framework for denoising. In this w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ke Lu, Ning He, Liang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/438617