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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Do Sik Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20182 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A denoising method and apparatus for multi-contrast MRI's are disclosed. An aspect of the invention provides a denoising method for an MRI that includes: acquiring multiple MRI's having different contrast levels for the same site; determining pixels corresponding to the same tissue by using the MRI's; and calculating a new luminance value for the pixels by using luminance values of the pixels that are determined to be belonging to the same tissue.