The application of maximum likelihood factor analysis (MLFA) with uniqueness constraints on dynamic cardiac microPET data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2313-2334

  Su, Yi ^a   Welch, Michael J ^a   Shoghi, Kooresh I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DYNAMIC IMAGES; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FRAMEWORK FOR FACTOR ANALYSIS (MLFA); WEIGHTING FACTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICRO POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34147146341     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/018     Document Type: Article

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