A Statistical Multiscale Framework for Poisson Inverse Problems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1811-1825

  Nowak, Robert D ^a   Kolaczyk, Eric D ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Inverse problems; Multiscale analysis; Poisson processes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPECTATION MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FACTORIZATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATE; MULTISCALE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034246021     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.857793     Document Type: Article

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