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Method for suppressing image noise in a video image stream, and associated medical image recording system and computer program product

US11350881B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Scholly Fiberoptic GmbH · DE

Inventors

Joachim Jauss · Margarethensiedlung, DE
Nicole Giessler · Triberg, DE
Martin BOHNING · Herzogsweiler, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 20, 2020
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 18, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/20182
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In order to improve the noise suppression in a video image stream 3 of a medical image recording system, the video image stream including a sequence of frames, it is provided that an image processing unit 5 of the image recording system analyses the video image stream 3 continuously in real time and determines at least one variability between successive image pixels of the frames, for example of spatially adjacent image pixels of frames and/or of image pixels of a plurality of the frames corresponding to one another spatially and temporally, in order, on the basis of the variability determined, to set at least one parameter of a noise suppression subsequently applied to the video image stream 3. As a result, the noise suppression can be adapted continuously to a current recording situation.

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