Noise characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms: II. Monte Carlo simulations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 112-121

  Soares, Edward J ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^b   Hoppin, John W ^a,c  

^a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariance matrix; Maximum likelihood expectation maximization; Noise characterization; Ordered subsets; Rescaled block iterative image reconstruction; Simultaneous multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTORS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; NOISE CHARACTERIZATION; ORDERED SUBSETS; RESCALED BLOCK-ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLICATIVE ALGEBRACIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 11844264871     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.836876     Document Type: Article

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