Noise correction on rician distributed data for fibre orientation estimators

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1242-1251

  Clarke, Rafael Alonso ^a   Scifo, Paola ^a,b   Rizzo, Giovanna ^a,b   Dell'Acqua, Flavio ^a   Scotti, Giuseppe ^a   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); Orientation estimators; Rician noise

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FIBRE ORIENTATIONS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING (HARDI); ORIENTATION ESTIMATORS; RICIAN NOISE;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50849107741     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.920615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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