Comparison between MAP and postprocessed ML for image reconstruction in emission tomography when anatomical knowledge is available

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 667-675

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Baete, Kristof ^a   Bequé, Dirk ^a   Dupont, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anatomical prior; Iterative reconstruction; Maximum a posteriori reconstruction; Penalized likelihood

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL PRIOR; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM-A-POSTERIORE RECONSTRUCTION; PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 18844395904     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.846850     Document Type: Article

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