Penalized maximum-likelihood image reconstruction for lesion detection

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4017-4029

  Qi, Jinyi ^a   Huesman, Ronald H ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CANCEROUS LESIONS; LESION DETECTION; PENALTY FUNCTION; RANDOM LESION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33746831644     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/16/009     Document Type: Article

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