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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2007
Ti-chiun Chang, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Yunqiang Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Jason Jenn-kwei Tyan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ti-chiun Chang, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Yunqiang Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Jason Jenn-Kwei Tyan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for structure enhancement and noise reduction of medical images using adaptive filtering is disclosed. The method utilizes feature estimation methods to determine multiple feature values for each pixel in an input image. Each pixel is then filtered using a filter type selected based on the feature values for that pixel.