Application of wavelets to filtering of noisy data

I discuss approaches to optimally remove noise from images. A generalization of Wiener filtering to non-Gaussian distributions and wavelets is described, as well as an approach to measure the errors in the reconstructed images. We argue that the wavelet basis is highly advantageous over either Fourier or real-space analysis if the data are intermittent in nature, i.e. if the filling factor of objects is small.