Edge-preserving smoothing of medical images using spatially adaptive filters
Colin S. Poon, M. Braun, Athula Ginige · 2005
ADsfracr- Noise reduction is m important component in biomedical image processing and analysis. We propose a smoothing algorithm which preserves edges and thus fine structures common in biomedical images. The algorithm is based on averaging over an independently generated mask at each pixel. The mask genention takes into account local image information and conforms to tissue boundaries. Comparison of the proposed algorithm with other common smoothing techniques favours our algorithm.