BACKGROUND The permanent hearing loss following exposure to intense noise can be due either to mechanical structural damage (tearing) caused directly by the noise or to metabolic (biochemical) damage resulting from the elevated levels of free radicals released during transduction of the sound overstimulation. Drugs which depress active cochlear mechanics (e.g. furosemide and salicylic acid) or ...

We propose an algorithm for mixed noise reduction in Hyperspectral Imagery (HSI). The hyperspectral data cube is considered as a three order tensor. These tensors give a clear view about both spatial and spectral modes. The HSI provides ample spectral information to identify and distinguish spectrally unique materials, thus they are spectrally over determined. Tensor representation is three ord...

Noise exposure has been characterized as a stressor, and its non-auditory effects on the central nervous system have been established both epidemiologically and experimentally. Little is known about the impact of impulse noise on the brain, however. In this study, we examined the effects of impulse noise stress on spatial learning and memory and on associated changes in the hippocampus. Rats we...

In this paper we present a novel structure for removal of impulse noise which is based on a combination of impulse detection and nonlinear ltering. The impulse detector is realized as a neural network which will be shown to possess a very simple structure. This means that, compared to traditional approaches, a signiicant gain in performance can be achieved with considerably smaller complexity. ...

Transient waves, like all other acoustic waves, will diffract around solid objects, such as measurement instrumentation. A derivation of an impulse response function on the surface of a rigid sphere, based on linear, classical scattering theory, is presented. The theoretical impulse response function is validated using an experiment with blast noise. An application of the impulse response funct...

In this paper, we propose a simple fuzzy-based algorithm to remove the impulse noise from images. To achieve real-time applications, the proposed filter architecture, which combines fuzzy noise detection and noise filtering, is also designed. With low computational complexity, simulation results show that the proposed filters can effectively remove the impulse noise.

A stereophonic echo canceler is proposed based on the Normalized LMS algorithm with orthogonal correction factors (NLMS-OCF). The echo canceler is modeled using a two-input single-output finite-impulse-response (FIR) structure. NLMSOCF updates the echo canceler coefficients based on multiple input vectors, while NLMS adapts the coefficients based on a single input vector. The proposed algorithm...

introduction: one of the major problems in the development of nuclear medicine images is the presence of noise. the noise level in nuclear medicine images is usually reduced by the analysis of imaging data in a fourier transform environment. the main drawback of this environment belongs to low signal to noise ratio in high frequencies because removing noise frequencies may remove data and times...