Statistical analysis of functional MRI data in the wavelet domain

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 142-154

  Ruttimann, Urs E ^a   Unser, Michael ^b   Rawlings, Robert R ^a   Rio, Daniel ^a   Ramsey, Nick F ^a   Mattay, Venkata S ^a   Hommer, Daniel W ^c   Frank, Joseph A ^c   Weinberger, Daniel R ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Multiresolution analysis; Statistical models; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL TESTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FINGER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR SKILLS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032034220     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.700727     Document Type: Article

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