Segmentation based noise variance estimation from background MRI data

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

Volumn 6111 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 62-70

  Rajan, Jeny ^a   Poot, Dirk ^a   Juntu, Jaber ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

MRI; Noise Estimation; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SEGMENTATION; INPUT PARAMETER; INTENSITY VALUES; LOW CONTRAST; LOW-INTENSITY; MR IMAGES; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE VARIANCE; NOISE VARIANCE ESTIMATION; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77955450937     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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