Title
Adaptive Real-Time Removal of Impulse Noise in Medical Images.
Abstract
Noise is an important factor that degrades the quality of medical images. Impulse noise is a common noise caused by malfunctioning of sensor elements or errors in the transmission of images. In medical images due to presence of white foreground and black background, many pixels have intensities similar to impulse noise and hence the distinction between noisy and regular pixels is difficult. Therefore, it is important to design a method to accurately remove this type of noise. In addition to the accuracy, the complexity of the method is very important in terms of hardware implementation. In this paper a low complexity de-noising method is proposed that distinguishes between noisy and non-noisy pixels and removes the noise by local analysis of the image blocks. All steps are designed to have low hardware complexity. Simulation results show that in the case of magnetic resonance images, the proposed method removes impulse noise with an acceptable accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10916-018-1074-7
J. Medical Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Hardware implementation,Impulse noise,Low complexity,Medical image restoration,Salt and pepper noise
Journal
abs/1709.02270
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0148-5598
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
18
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zohreh HosseinKhani110.69
Mohsen Hajabdollahi244.81
Nader Karimi314532.75
S. Mohamad R. Soroushmehr4152.30
Shahram Shirani525037.41
Kayvan Najarian626259.53
Shadrokh Samavi723338.99