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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2000
Birsen Yazici, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of improving images is provided. A body of image data is collected and signal to noise (SNR) values thereof are determined. The collected data is converted into an electronic image representation X. Image X comprises a first array of pixel intensity values. Further, a low pass filtered image representation F comprising a second array of pixel intensity values is obtained. An improved electronic image representation P comprising a third array of pixel intensity values is generated by replacing each pixel intensity value of electronic image representation X by a linear combination of the replaced pixel intensity value from image X and the corresponding pixel intensity value from image F. An array of linear combination coefficients &agr;, (1−&agr;) determine the relative contributions of the replaced X pixel intensity value and the value of the corresponding pixel intensity from image F, respectively. The values of linear combination coefficients array &agr; are determined with respect to statistical image quality metrics, in particular with respect to signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio.