Improved Bayesian Image Estimation for digital chest radiography

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 539-545

  Baydush, Alan H ^a   Bowsher, James E ^a   Laading, Jacob K ^a,b   Floyd, Carey E ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

digital thoracic imaging; scatter reduction; statistical image processing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

% REDUCTIONS; BAYESIAN; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL THORACIC IMAGING; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ESTIMATION; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SCATTER REDUCTION; STATISTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; THORACIC IMAGING;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDIASTINUM; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030934372     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598054     Document Type: Article

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