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  • Experimental evaluation on synthetic and real clinical images contaminated with Gaussian, Poisson, and Rician noise.

    • Main Results:

    • The proposed Krawtchouk moment-based NLM algorithm demonstrated superior performance compared to Zernike-based denoising.
    • Significant improvements were observed in PSNR (3.1 dB), SSIM (0.1285), and BRISQUE (4.23) scores.
    • The method showed competitive results across varying noise levels and types, outperforming existing techniques.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed moment domain image denoising method effectively reduces noise while preserving image quality.
    • Krawtchouk moments provide an efficient way to evaluate neighborhood similarity in the NLM framework for enhanced denoising.
    • The method shows promise for clinical applications requiring high-fidelity image reconstruction.