Investigation on an EM framework for partial volume image segmentation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Eremina, Daria ^a,b   Li, Xiang ^c   Zhu, Wei ^b   Wang, Jing ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; MAP image segmentation; Parameter estimation; PV effect; Tissue mixture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

EM ALGORITHM; MAP IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PV EFFECT; TISSUE MIXTURE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745149714     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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