Platelet-based MPLE denoising of SPECT images: Phantom and patient study

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4787-4790

  Riyahi Alam, N ^a,b   Alibabaei, N ^a   Takavar, A ^a   Sohrabi, M ^b   Fard Esfahani, A ^b   Oghabian, M A ^a   Bakhtiary, M ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Denoising; Image approximation; MPLE; Platelets; SPECT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FACTORIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PLATELETS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DENOISING METHODS; IMAGE APPROXIMATION; MAXIMUM PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MPLE); SPECT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THROMBOCYTE;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34047121615     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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