Penalized likelihood PET image reconstruction using patch-based edge-preserving regularization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2194-2204

  Wang, Guobao ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; patch regularization; penalized maximum likelihood; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VARIATION; CONTRAST RECOVERY; EDGE-PRESERVING REGULARIZATION; FINE FEATURE; HYPER-PARAMETER; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE SMOOTHING; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONQUADRATIC REGULARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION TRANSFER ALGORITHMS; PATCH REGULARIZATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PENALTY FUNCTION; PET DATA; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIECE-WISE; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; REGULARIZATION METHODS; SHARP EDGES; SMALL OBJECTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870534876     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2211378     Document Type: Article

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