A maximum likelihood expectation maximization algorithm with thresholding

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 571-578

  Chuang, Keh Shih ^a   Jan, Meei Ling ^a,b   Wu, Jay ^a   Lu, Jeng Chang ^a   Chen, Sharon ^a   Hsu, Ching Han ^a   Fu, Ying Kai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; MLEM; OSEM; Thresholding method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; THRESHOLDING METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; TAIWAN;

EID: 27744438809     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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