Statistical and information-theoretic analysis of resolution in imaging

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3411-3437

  Shahram, Morteza ^a,b   Milanfar, Peyman ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Cram r Rao bound; Detection; Estimation; Fisher information; Imaging; information theoretic imaging; Kullback Liebler distance; Mismatch; Model; Perturbation analysis; Resolution; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALIASING; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; FISHER INFORMATION; INFORMATION-THEORETIC IMAGING; KULLBACK-LIEBLER DISTANCE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 33746588277     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.878180     Document Type: Article

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