A new variational shape-from-orientation approach to correcting intensity inhomogeneities in MR images

Proceedings - Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis, WBIA 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 56-63

  Lai, Shang Hong ^a   Fang, Ming ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; ORIENTATION CONSTRAINT; POSITIVE SEMIDEFINITE; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; REGULARIZATION FRAMEWORK;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346344372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIA.1998.692393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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