Methods and systems are provided for removing visual artifacts from a medical image acquired during a scan of an object, such as a patient. In one example, a method for an image processing system comprises receiving a medical image; performing a wavelet decomposition on image data of the medical image; performing one or more 2-D Fourier transforms on wavelet coefficients resulting from the wavelet decomposition; removing image artifacts from the Fourier coefficients determined from the 2-D Fourier transforms using a filter; reconstructing the medical image using the filtered Fourier coefficients; and displaying the reconstructed medical image on a display device of the image processing system.