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Magnetic Resonance Image Quality Enhancement Using Transform Based Hybrid Filtering

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Advancements of Medical Electronics

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This paper proposes a novel methodology for improving the quality of magnetic resonance image (MRI). The presence of noise affects the image analysis task by degrading the visual contents of image. The proposed methodology integrates transform domain method, discrete wavelet transform with spatial domain filter, Non local means to smoothed out noisy interferences leading to the improvement of visual characteristics of MRI insights. The quantitative validation of the proposed technique has been done and experimental result shows the effectiveness of this algorithm over anisotropic diffusion, bilateral, trilateral and wavelet shrinkage filters.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge EKO CT & MRI Scan Centre at Medical College and Hospitals Campus, Kolkata-700073 for providing brain MR images. Authors would like to acknowledge Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Dept. of Atomic Energy for financially supporting the research work under the grant number 2013/36/38-BRNS/2350 dt. 25-11-2013.

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  1. School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India

    Manas K. Nag, Subhranil Koley & Chandan Chakraborty

  2. EKO CT & MRI Scan Centre Medical College and Hospitals Campus, Kolkata, 700073, India

    Anup Kumar Sadhu

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Correspondence to Chandan Chakraborty .

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  1. Information Technology, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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  2. Biomedical Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Sandip Bag

  3. Biomedical Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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  4. Electronics & Communication Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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  5. Electrical Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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Nag, M.K., Koley, S., Chakraborty, C., Sadhu, A.K. (2015). Magnetic Resonance Image Quality Enhancement Using Transform Based Hybrid Filtering. In: Gupta, S., Bag, S., Ganguly, K., Sarkar, I., Biswas, P. (eds) Advancements of Medical Electronics. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2256-9_4

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