DWI filtering using joint information for DTI and HARDI

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-218

  Tristán Vega, Antonio ^a   Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diffusion Weighted Imaging; Linear minimum mean squared error; Rician noise; Unbiased non local means

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBER ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT IMAGES; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; JOINT INFORMATION; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARED ERRORS; NEW APPROACHES; NONLOCAL; SECOND ORDERS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TENSOR FIELDS;

DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

TENSORS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNBIASED NON LOCAL MEANS;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75749092889     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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