A quadratic majorize-minimize framework for statistical estimation with noisy rician- and noncentral chi-distributed MR images

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 712-715

  Varadarajan, Divya ^a   Haldar, Justin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Majorize Minimize Algorithms; Noncentral Chi Distribution; Rice Distribution; Statistical Estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; MAJORIZE-MINIMIZE ALGORITHMS; NOISELESS IMAGES; NONCENTRAL CHI DISTRIBUTION; RICE DISTRIBUTION; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

STATISTICS;

EID: 84881655044     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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