Log transformation benefits parameter estimation in microwave tomographic imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2014-2023

  Meaney, Paul M ^a   Fang, Qianqian ^b   Rubaek, Tonny ^c   Demidenko, Eugene ^d   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Microwave imaging; Ordinary least squares; Parameter estimation; Residual error analysis; Variance stabilizing transformation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METADATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST IMAGING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; RESIDUAL ERROR ANALYSIS; VARIANCE STABILIZING TRANSFORMATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447327562     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2737264     Document Type: Article

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