Lung CT Image Enhancement Based on Image Segmentation and Total Variational

Hongfei Wang; ShiQing Ma; Lei Min; Shuai Wang; Wei Yang; Chuan Xu; Ping Yang

doi:10.3788/CJL202249.2007210

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