Heuristic modification of an anatomical Markov prior improves its performance

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3262-3266

  Vunckx, Kathleen ^a   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ANATOMICAL PRIORS; BRAIN IMAGING; BRAIN PHANTOMS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MAP ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOISE LEVELS; RESOLUTION MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79960301189     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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