# DWI data denoising

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743
**Category:** SlicerDMRI
**Tags:** diffusion
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743 "2020-03-19T10:55:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Adam1122](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@Adam1122](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Adam1122)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743/1 "2020-03-19T10:55:12Z")

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Hello all, does the current Slicer version enable to apply denoising on the DWI data? I haven´t found any DWI denoising filter. In Slicer 3.6 there were implemented 3 DWI filters ( Joint Rician, Rician and Unbiased NLM). Eventually, do slicer extensions include these filters?

Thanks lot  
Adam

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### Author: ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743/2 "2020-03-19T14:38:01Z")

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I don’t know for sure - you can look through SlicerDMRI. @zhangfanmark do you know?

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### Author: ![zhangfanmark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/zhangfanmark/32/4451_2.png) [@zhangfanmark](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/zhangfanmark)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743/3 "2020-03-20T13:14:31Z")

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Hi @Adam1122,

There is no such functionality in SlicerDMRI now. You may want to take a look at dipy for DWI denoising.

Regards,  
Fan

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### Author: ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dwi-data-denoising/10743/4 "2020-03-21T13:54:05Z")

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I’m just curious, was there any specific reason to remove these modules? (were there compatibility issues with recent ITK or Slicer changes?)
