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Structure Detection in Low Intensity X-Ray Images

Astrophysics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

In the context of assessing and characterizing structures in X-ray images, we compare different approaches. Most often the intensity level is very low and necessitates a special treatment of Poisson statistics. The method based on wavelet function histogram is shown to be the most reliable one. We also present a multi-resolution filtering method based on the wavelet coefficients detection. Comparative results are presented by means of a simulated cluster of galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9707305,
  title  = {Structure Detection in Low Intensity X-Ray Images},
  author = {Jean-Luc Starck and Marguerite Pierre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9707305},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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