Evaluating estimation techniques in medical imaging without a gold standard: Experimental validation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5034, Issue , 2003, Pages 230-237

  Hoppin, John W ^a,b   Kupinski, Matthew A ^a   Wilson, Donald W ^a   Peterson, Todd ^a   Gershman, Benjamin ^a   Kastis, George ^a   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Furenlid, Lars ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Parameter estimation; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOEMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042860082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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