Computer-aided lesion detection with statistical model-based features in pet images

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2509-2521

  Huang, C C ^a   Yu, X ^a   Bading, J ^b   Conti, P S ^b  

^a University of Southern ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031343628     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.656460     Document Type: Article

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