Research Article

Optimized Parallelization for Nonlocal Means Based Low Dose CT Image Processing

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Processed result of one abdomen LDCT image with tumor (pointed by arrows). (a), (b), and (c) correspond to the original LDCT image, the corresponding SDCT image, and the LDCT image processed by NLM filtering, respectively.
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