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In this paper, we propose a denoising method motivated by our previous analysis of the performance bounds for image denoising. Insights from that study are used here to derive a high-performance practical denoising algorithm. We propose a patch-based Wiener filter that exploits patch redundancy for image denoising. Our framework uses both geometrically and photometrically similar patches to estimate the different filter parameters. We describe how these parameters can be accurately estimated directly from the input noisy image. Our denoising approach, designed for near-optimal performance (in the mean-squared error sense), has a sound statistical foundation that is analyzed in detail. The performance of our approach is experimentally verified on a variety of images and noise levels. The results presented here demonstrate that our proposed method is on par or exceeding the current state of the art, both visually and quantitatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multiplicative noise removal based on total variation (TV) regularization has been widely researched in image science. In this paper, inspired by the spatially adapted methods for denoising Gaussian noise, we develop a variational model, which combines the TV regularizer with local constraints. It is also related to a TV model with spatially adapted regularization parameters. The automated selection of the regularization parameters is based on the local statistical characteristics of some random variable. The corresponding subproblem can be efficiently solved by the augmented Lagrangian method. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is able to preserve small image details, whereas the noise in the homogeneous regions is sufficiently removed. As a consequence, our method yields better denoised results than those of the current state-of-the-art methods with respect to the signal-to-noise-ratio values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Typically, the acquired renal ultrasound image includes a course of speckle noises. This paper primarily investigates an approach for the detection of renal calculi by processing those raw US images with the help of a meta-heuristic SVM classifier. One of the major downsides of involving Ultrasound images in medical analysis is the prevalence of Speckle Noises. An Adaptive Mean Median Filter approach has been introduced in the work to get rid of the speckle noises to the maximum extent ever in the literature. Segmentation is performed by employing conventional K-Means and GLCM features were extracted for classification using a meta-heuristic SVM classifier. The proposed methodology investigates with a Real-time Acquired Dataset of Mithra Scans, Tamilnadu, India comprises of 250 clinical Ultra-Sound Kidney Images of which 150 are having Calculi and the rest are Healthy. With the experimental results, the proposed meta-heuristic SVM classifier have performed better in noisy images while comparing with other conventional methods considered in the literature. It exhibits an Accuracy of 98.8% with a FAR rate of 1.8 for FRR as high as 3.3. The results clearly proposed that the novel AMM-PSO-SVM could be a promising technique for object or foreign body detection in a medical imaging application that uses ultrasound imaging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The one of the preprocessing step for hyperspectral imagery is noise reduction. The images are received by the detector and this can be degraded by several factors like atmospherical things and device noises which emit temperature noise, processing noise and explosion noise. There are several strategies are developed already to cut back the signal to noise magnitude relation of the hyperspectral image. However, the stationary noise of the many denoising ways developed cannot be applied on to the gauge boson noise. Thus, the each gauge boson and thermal noise square measure gift within the captured hyperspectral image (HSI). during this paper, we tend to projected a replacement denoising framework known as tensor-based filtering employing a PARAFAC tensor decomposition methodology for scale back each noise. The proposed technique is performs higher in removing noise as compared with different strategies like Multiple linear regression (MLR) algorithm and combined algorithm called multidimensional wavelet transforms with multiway wiener filter (MWPT-MWF) technique. The performance analysis of the new denoising framework has more efficient for reducing signal dependent (PN) and signal independent noise (TN) as compared with other conventional method. Hence this novel denoising approach would be more beneficial for detection of skin allergy and also this algorithm will be very useful for detection of retinal exudates and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and retinopathy disease in medical application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]