An adaptive median filter algorithm based on B-spline function

  • Authors:
  • Mei-Sen Pan;Jing-Tian Tang;Xiao-Li Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde, PRC 415000 and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Info-physics and Geomatics Engineering, Cen ...;Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Info-physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, PRC 410083;Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Info-physics and Geomatics Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, PRC 410083

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Automation and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

According to the B-spline convolution mask, first, the contrast sensitiveness (CS) is computed and then is viewed as a noise sensitiveness coefficient (NSC) to adaptively determine a noise-recognized threshold value. Based on the noise density function (NDF) in a 3脳3 window, the filtering window size is adaptively adjusted, and then a median filter is used to eliminate the noise-marked pixels. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can preserve image detail information well and effectively remove the noises, particularly the impulse noises that is also called salt-and-pepper noises superimposed on the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) medical images.