A nonlinear probabilistic curvature motion filter for positron emission tomography images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5567 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 212-223

  Alrefaya, Musa ^a   Sahli, Hichem ^a   Vanhamel, Iris ^a   Hao, Dinh Nho ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVATURE MOTION; DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; PET IMAGES; POISON NOISE; POISSON NOISE; PROJECTION DATA; SINOGRAMS; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; POSITRONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 69049120541     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02256-2_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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