Image Noise Reduction in Computed Tomography with Non-Local Means Algorithm Based on Adaptive Filtering Coefficients

Yufang Cai; Taoyan Chen; Jue Wang; Gongjie Yao

doi:10.3788/AOS202040.0710001

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