Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 9, Issue 2, 1650021(2016)

Image enhancement via MMSE estimation of Gaussian scale mixture with Maxwell density in AWGN

Pichid Kittisuwan*
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  • Department of Telecommunication Engineering,Faculty of Engineering,Rajamangala University of Technology (Ratanakosin),Nakhonpathom, Thailand
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    In optical techniques, noise signal is a classical problem in medical image processing. Recently, there has been considerable interest in using the wavelet transform with Bayesian estimation as a powerful tool for recovering image from noisy data. In wavelet domain, if Bayesian estimator is used for denoising problem, the solution requires a prior knowledge about the distribution of wavelet coefficients. Indeed, wavelet coefficients might be better modeled by super Gaussian density. The super Gaussian density can be generated by Gaussian scale mixture (GSM). So, we present new minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator for spherically-contoured GSM with Maxwell distribution in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). We compare our proposed method to current state-of-the-art method applied on standard test image and we quantify achieved performance improvement.

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    Paper Information

    Received: Oct. 1, 2015

    Accepted: Nov. 17, 2015

    Published Online: Dec. 27, 2018

    The Author Email: Kittisuwan Pichid (pichidkit@yahoo.com)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545816500218

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