Fully bayesian estimation of gibbs hyperparameters for emission computed tomography data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 516-526

  Higdon, David M ^a   Bowsher, James E ^a   Johnson, Valen E ^a   Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Gilland, David R ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian reconstruction; Emission tomography; Markov chain monte carlo; Markov random fields; Normalizing constants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BAYESIAN RECONSTRUCTION; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031240172     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640741     Document Type: Article

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