Fuzzy genetic-based noise removal filter for digital panoramic X-ray images

The results verify that the proposed filter enhances physicians' and dentists' skill of diagnosing normal and pathological events in the teeth, jaws, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) regions and changeable anatomical panoramic landmarks related to osteoporosis progress in the mandible bone using noise removal and improving images quality. Experimental results show the superiority of this filter over other noise removal filters.