Automatic estimation of the noise variance from the histogram of a magnetic resonance image

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1335-1348

  Sijbers, Jan ^a,c   Poot, Dirk ^a,d   Den Dekker, Arnold J ^b   Pintjens, Wouter ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^d IWT (Institute for Science and Technology Flanders)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOGRAM; NOISE VARIANCE; POST PROCESSING TASKS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERROR (RMSE);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; HISTOGRAM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE VARIANCE ESTIMATION METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247196111     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/009     Document Type: Article

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