Maximum likelihood estimation of the bias field in MR brain images: Investigating different modelings of the imaging process

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

Volumn 2208, Issue , 2001, Pages 811-819

  Prima, Sylvain ^a   Ayache, Nicholas ^a   Barrick, Tom ^b   Roberts, Neil ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

BIAS FIELD CORRECTIONS; BRAIN IMAGES; ECM ALGORITHM; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; IMAGING PROCESS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE; OUTLIERS REJECTIONS; SIMULATED IMAGES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84958175097     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45468-3_97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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