Regression error estimation significantly improves the region-of-interest statistics of noisy MR images

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2813-2821

  Juras, Vladimir ^a,b   Zbýň, Štefan ^a   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a,b   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Coefficient of determination; Fitting; MRI; Region of interest

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; FITTING; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE; REGION OF INTEREST; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SELECTION AND EVALUATIONS; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77953488402     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3431995     Document Type: Article

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