Speckle statistics in optical coherence tomography

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 593-596

  Karamata, Boris ^a   Hassler, Kaï ^a   Laubscher, Markus ^a   Lasser, Theo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECKLE STATISTICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 17644420316     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000593     Document Type: Article

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