Improved DCT-Based Nonlocal Means Filter for MR Images Denoising

The nonlocal means (NLM) filter has been proven to be an efficient feature-preserved denoising method and can be applied to remove noise in the magnetic resonance (MR) images. To suppress noise more efficiently, we present a novel NLM filter based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). Instead of c...

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Main Authors: Jinrong Hu, Yifei Pu, Xi Wu, Yi Zhang, Jiliu Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/232685