Nonparametric regression sinogram smoothing using a roughness-penalized poisson likelihood objective function

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 773-786

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION; NONUNIFORM RESOLUTION; POISSON LIKELIHOOD; ROUGHNESS PENALTY; SINOGRAM SMOOTHING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034238078     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.876303     Document Type: Article

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