International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 506120, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/506120
Research Article

A Based Bayesian Wavelet Thresholding Method to Enhance Nuclear Imaging

Nawrès Khlifa, Najla Gribaa, Imen Mbazaa, and Kamel Hamruoni

Research Unit of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, National Engineering School of Tunis, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia

Received 19 August 2008; Accepted 7 January 2009

Academic Editor: Min Gu

Copyright © 2009 Nawrès Khlifa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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