A method for approximating the density of maximum-likelihood and maximum a posteriori estimates under a Gaussian noise model

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-403

  Abbey, Craig K ^a,b   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a   Müller, Stefan P ^c,d   Rybicki, Frank J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bound; Maximum likelihood estimation; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 0032249194     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(98)80019-4     Document Type: Article

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