On the acceleration of maximum likelihood algorithms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 914, Issue , 1988, Pages 344-349

  Metz, Charles E ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCELERATION METHOD; ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM; RATES OF CONVERGENCE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

EID: 10344255031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.968650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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