Globally Convergent Algorithms for Maximum a Posteriori Transmission Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1430-1438

  Lange, Kenneth ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN SMOOTHING PRIORS; GLOBALLY CONVERGENT ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHMS; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029394375     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.465107     Document Type: Article

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