2003Jiang Bilateral
Citation
Jiang W, Baker ML, Wu Q, Bajaj C, Chiu W. Applications of a bilateral denoising filter in biological electron microscopy. J Struct Biol. 2003 Oct-Nov;144(1-2):114-22.
Abstract
Due to the sensitivity of biological sample to the radiation damage, the low dose imaging conditions used for electron microscopy result in extremely noisy images. The processes of digitization, image alignment, and 3D reconstruction also introduce additional sources of noise in the final 3D structure. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a previous termbilateralnext term denoising filter in various biological electron microscopy applications. In contrast to the conventional low pass filters, which inevitably smooth out both noise and structural features simultaneously, we found that previous termbilateralnext term filter holds a distinct advantage in being capable of effectively suppressing noise without blurring the high resolution details. In as much, we have applied this technique to individual micrographs, entire 3D reconstructions, segmented proteins, and tomographic reconstructions.
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Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2003.09.028
