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. 2008 Aug;12(4):514-523.
doi: 10.1016/j.media.2008.02.004. Epub 2008 Feb 29.

MRI denoising using non-local means

José V Manjón  1 , José Carbonell-Caballero  1 , Juan J Lull  1 , Gracián García-Martí  1 , Luís Martí-Bonmatí  2 , Montserrat Robles  1
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MRI denoising using non-local means

José V Manjón et al. Med Image Anal. 2008 Aug.

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance (MR) images are affected by random noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements from the data. In the present work, a recently proposed filter for random noise removal is analyzed and adapted to reduce this noise in MR magnitude images. This parametric filter, named Non-Local Means (NLM), is highly dependent on the setting of its parameters. The aim of this paper is to find the optimal parameter selection for MR magnitude image denoising. For this purpose, experiments have been conducted to find the optimum parameters for different noise levels. Besides, the filter has been adapted to fit with specific characteristics of the noise in MR image magnitude images (i.e. Rician noise). From the results over synthetic and real images we can conclude that this filter can be successfully used for automatic MR denoising.

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