A Modified Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Penalized Likelihood Estimation in Emission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 132-137

  De Pierro, Alvaro R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBABILITY;

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029267626     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.370409     Document Type: Article

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