Ultrafast technique of impulsive noise removal with application to microarray image denoising

In this paper a novel approach to the impulsive noise removal in color images is presented. The proposed technique employs the switching scheme based on the impulse detection mechanism using the so called peer group concept. Compared to the vector median filter, the proposed technique consistently yields better results in suppressing both the random-valued and fixed-valued impulsive noise. The main advantage of the proposed noise detection framework is its enormous computational speed, which enables efficient filtering of large images in real-time applications. The proposed filtering scheme has been successfully applied to the denoising of the cDNA microarray images. Experimental results proved that the new filter is capable of removing efficiently the impulses present in multichannel images, while preserving their textural features.