A nonlocal maximum likelihood estimation method for Rician noise reduction in MR images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-172

  He, Lili ^a   Greenshields, Ian R ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; Magnetic resonance (MR) images; Nonlocal (NL) means; Nonlocal maximum likelihood estimation (NLML); Rician distribution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ATOMS; BLOCK CODES; DIAGNOSIS; ESTIMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TURBO CODES;

DENOISING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) IMAGES; NONLOCAL (NL) MEANS; NONLOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (NLML); RICIAN DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 59449092337     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.927338     Document Type: Article

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