Non-local means denoising of SG-KS-4D-MRI using block matching 3D: Implications for pancreatic tumor registration and segmentation

Publication date: Available online 6 February 2016
Source:International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
Author(s): Jun Jin, Elizabeth McKenzie, Zhaoyang Fan, Richard Tuli, Zixin Deng, Jianing Pang, Benedick Fraass, Debiao Li, Howard Sandler, Guang Yang, Ke Sheng, Shuiping Gou, Wensha Yang

Teaser

Four dimensional MRI (4D-MRI) image sets were denoised with a non-local means filter. The denoised 4D-MRI images were shown to have less noise and better contrast to noise ratio. The 4D image registration was also more consistent on the denoised 4D-MRI compared to the raw 4D-MRI.


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