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The acquisition of MRI images offers a trade-off in terms of acquisition time, spatial/temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Thus, for instance, increasing the time efficiency of MRI often comes at the expense of reduced SNR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-28 Sudipto Dolui , Alan Kuurstra , Iván C. Salgado Patarroyo , Oleg V. Michailovich

Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Hani Almansouri , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

In this paper, we propose a method for real-time high density impulse noise suppression from images. In our method, we first apply an impulse detector to identify the corrupted pixels and then employ an innovative weighted-average filter to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hossein Hosseini , Farzad Hessar , Farokh Marvasti

In this article, we propose a super-resolution method to resolve the problem of image low spatial because of the limitation of imaging devices. We make use of the strong non-linearity mapped ability of the back-propagation neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Zeling Wu , Haoxiang Wang

We propose a new image denoising algorithm when the data is contaminated by a Poisson noise. As in the Non-Local Means filter, the proposed algorithm is based on a weighted linear combination of the bserved image. But in contract to the…

Applications · Statistics 2012-01-31 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

The efficiency of the Non-Local means (NLM) image denoising algorithm relies on the identification of similar original pixels from noisy similar patches. Hence fine details and low-contrasted structures are badly recovered after the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Simon Postec , Jacques Froment , Béatrice Vedel

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of images from samples located at non-integer positions, called mesh. This is a common scenario for many image processing applications, such as super-resolution, warping or virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ján Koloda , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

We describe a novel method for training high-quality image denoising models based on unorganized collections of corrupted images. The training does not need access to clean reference images, or explicit pairs of corrupted images, and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

This paper proposes a novel method for automatic MRI denoising that exploits last advances in deep learning feature regression and self-similarity properties of the MR images. The proposed method is a two-stage approach. In the first stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Jose V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupe

Image restoration has been an extensively researched topic in numerous fields. With the advent of deep learning, a lot of the current algorithms were replaced by algorithms that are more flexible and robust. Deep networks have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rohit Jena

This paper proposes a new technique based on nonlinear Adaptive Median filter (AMF) for image restoration. Image denoising is a common procedure in digital image processing aiming at the removal of noise, which may corrupt an image during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-28 T. K. Thivakaran , RM. Chandrasekaran

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Faouzi Benzarti , Hamid Amiri

A wide variety of image denoising methods are available now. However, the performance of a denoising algorithm often depends on individual input noisy images as well as its parameter setting. In this paper, we present a no-reference image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-16 Si Lu

In this paper, we suggest a general model for the fixed-valued impulse noise and propose a two-stage method for high density noise suppression while preserving the image details. In the first stage, we apply an iterative impulse detector,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Hossein Hosseini , Farokh Marvasti

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zeyun Deng , Joseph Campbell

Digital images are commonly represented as regular 2D arrays, so pixels are organized in form of a matrix addressed by integers. However, there are many image processing operations, such as rotation or motion compensation, that produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Koloda , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

An efficient despeckling method using a quantum-inspired adaptive threshold function is presented for reducing noise of ultrasound images. In the first step, the ultrasound image is decorrelated by an spectrum equalization procedure due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

The bilateral filter is a useful nonlinear filter which without smoothing edges, it does spatial averaging. In the literature, the effectiveness of this method for image denoising is shown. In this paper, an extension of this method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Seyede Mahya Hazavei , Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Lovedeep Gondara