Cramér-Rao bounds for parametric shape estimation in inverse problems

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-84

  Ye, Jong Chul ^a,b   Bresler, Yoram ^a   Moulin, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bounds; Deconvolution; Domain derivative; Fourier imaging; Global confidence region; Linear inverse problems; Parametric shape estimation; Performance analysis; Radon transform; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PARAMETRIC SHAPE ESTIMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037243937     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.806249     Document Type: Article

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