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This paper considers the feature space of DT-MRI as a differential manifold with an affine-invariant metric. We generalise Di Zenzo’s structure tensor to tensor-valued images for edge detection. To improve the quality of the edges, we develop a generalised Perona-Malik method for smoothing tensor images. We demonstrate our algorithm on both synthetic and real DT-MRI data.
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Zhang, F., Hancock, E.R. (2006). Smoothing Tensor-Valued Images Using Anisotropic Geodesic Diffusion. In: Yeung, DY., Kwok, J.T., Fred, A., Roli, F., de Ridder, D. (eds) Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition. SSPR /SPR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11815921_8
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