Edge preserving image smoothing using nonlinear diffusion and a semi-local edge detection technique in digital mammography images.
Mark M. RodenLawrence W. BassettDaniel ValentinoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2009)
Keyphrases
- edge preserving
- image smoothing
- edge detection
- anisotropic diffusion
- nonlinear diffusion
- noise reduction
- speckle noise
- multiscale
- noisy images
- ultrasound images
- wavelet shrinkage
- bilateral filtering
- edge detector
- image processing
- noise removal
- diffusion process
- image processing and computer vision
- image enhancement
- image restoration
- noise level
- bilateral filter
- diffusion equation
- spatially varying
- edge information
- mathematical morphology
- region boundaries
- least squares
- image analysis
- image features
- signal to noise ratio
- input image
- object recognition
- denoising
- scale spaces
- sar images
- partial differential equations
- maximum a posteriori