Noise Removal for Medical X-ray Images in Wavelet Domain
Abstract
Many important problems in engineering and science are well-modeled by Poisson noise, the noise of medical X-ray image is Poisson noise. In this paper, we propose a method of noise removal for degraded medical X-ray image using improved preprocessing and improved BayesShrink (IBS) method in wavelet domain. Firstly, we pre-process the medical X-ray image, Secondly, we apply the Daubechies (db) wavelet transform to medical X-ray image to acquire scaling and wavelet coefficients. Thirdly, we apply the proposed IBS method to process wavelet coefficients. Finally, we compute the inverse wavelet transform for the thresholded coefficeints. Experimental results show that the proposed method always outperforms traditional methods.
- Publication:
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IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
- Pub Date:
- 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1541/ieejeiss.126.237
- Bibcode:
- 2006ITEIS.126..237W
- Keywords:
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- Poisson noise;
- wavelet;
- medical X-ray image;
- BayesShrink method