Tomographic Image Reconstruction Based on a Content-Adaptive Mesh Model

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-212

  Brankov, Jovan G ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^a   Wernick, Miles N ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Emission tomography; Image reconstruction; Mesh modeling; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHOTONS;

EM ALGORITHMS; MESH MODELING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GATED IMAGING; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 1342282316     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.822822     Document Type: Article

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