Error propagation framework for diffusion tensor imaging via diffusion tensor representations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1017-1034

  Koay, Cheng Guan ^a   Chang, Lin Ching ^a   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a   Basser, Peter J ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone of uncertainty; Covariance structures; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor representations; Error propagation; Invariant Hessian

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONE OF UNCERTAINTY; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR REPRESENTATIONS; ERROR PROPAGATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; INVARIANT HESSIAN; RELATIVE ANISOTROPY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547591228     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.897415     Document Type: Article

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