Definitions for "Median Filter"
Keywords:  nonlinear, filter, linear, pixel, noise
replaces a pixel with the "most typical" value of its surroundings, while ignoring extreme values. Applying a median filter to an image tends to remove "stray pixels" and small details.
Non-Linear, ranking filter, which sorts the values in a neighbourhood. The output value is the median value.
A method of compensating for speckle noise where the pixel of interest is replaced with the median value of a N X N window of neighboring pixels.