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Citation

Fernandez JJ, Li S, Lucic V. Three-dimensional anisotropic noise reduction with automated parameter tuning. Application to electron cryotomography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4788:60-69, 2007.

Abstract

This article presents an approach for noise filtering that is based on anisotropic nonlinear diffusion. The method combines edge-preserving noise reduction with a strategy to enhance local structures and a mechanism to further smooth the background. We have provided the method with an automatic mechanism for parameter self-tuning and for stopping the iterative filtering process. The performance of the approach is illustrated with its application to electron cryotomography (cryoET). CryoET has emerged as a leading imaging technique for visualizing the molecular architecture of complex biological specimens. A challenging computational task in this discipline is to increase the extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to allow visualization and interpretation of the three-dimensional structures. The filtering method here proposed succeeds in substantially reducing the noise with excellent preservation of the structures.

Keywords

Electron tomography; Denoising; Anisotropic nonlinear diffusion

Links

Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75271-4_7

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