Restoration of DWI data using a rician LMMSE estimator

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1389-1403

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a,b   Niethammer, Marc ^c   Kubicki, Marek ^a   Shenton, Martha E ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) restoration; Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimator; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Noise filtering; Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPAIR; RESONANCE; RESTORATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED IMAGING (DWI) RESTORATION; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (LMMSE) ESTIMATOR; LINEAR MINIMUM-MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); NOISE FILTERING; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MODELLING; QUALITY INDICES; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC DATASETS;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 52649095997     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.920609     Document Type: Article

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