Estimating random signal parameters from noisy images with nuisance parameters: Linear and scanning-linear methods

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8150-8173

  Whitaker, Meredith Kathryn ^a   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATION; NUISANCE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL PARAMETERS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44649172469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008150     Document Type: Article

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