Order Statistic-Neural Network Hybrid Filters for Gamma Camera-Bremsstrahlung Image Restoration

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 58-64

  Qian, Wei ^a   Kallergi, Maria ^a   Clarke, Laurence P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BETA EMITTERS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; GAMMA CAMERA; ORDER STATISTIC NEURAL NETWORK HYBRID FILTERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0027569232     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.222667     Document Type: Article

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