Salt and pepper noise (MRI artifact)

Last revised by Daniel J Bell on 3 Dec 2021

Salt and pepper noise, also known as impulse noise, has been used to describe the characteristic appearance of a certain artifact seen on MRI.

The artifact looks like innumerable black and white pixels throughout the image. Smoothing filters are algorithms designed to diminish the noise whilst maintaining the integrity of the key image findings 3.

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