Regularising limited view tomography using anatomical reference images and information theoretic similarity metrics

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 278-300

  Van de Sompel, Dominique ^a   Brady, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical prior; Image reconstruction; Information theoretic similarity metrics; Limited view transmission tomography; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL PRIORS; ANGULAR RANGE; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; FOURIER SLICE THEOREM; FOURIER SPACE; INFORMATION THEORETIC MEASURE; INFORMATION THEORETIC SIMILARITY METRICS; JOINT ENTROPY; LARGE SPACES; LIMITED VIEW TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MIXTURE MODEL; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NULL SPACE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; REFERENCE IMAGE; SIMILARITY METRICS; UNDER-SAMPLING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANATOMICAL REFERENCE IMAGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIMITED VIEW TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82355169492     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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