Title : 
A Edge-Preserving Minimum Cross-Entropy Algorithm for Pet Image Reconstruction Using Multiphase Level Set Method
         
        
            Author : 
Zhu, Hongqing ; Zhou, Jian ; Shu, Huazhong ; Luo, Limin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Med. Eng., Southeast Univ., Nangjing, China
         
        
        
        
            fDate : 
March 18-23, 2005
         
        
        
        
            Keywords : 
image denoising; image reconstruction; medical image processing; minimum entropy methods; parameter estimation; positron emission tomography; random noise; set theory; tumours; 2D images; PET image reconstruction; edge artifacts; edge-preserving minimum cross-entropy algorithm; inherent ill-posedness; initial emission rate estimation; multiphase level set method; noise; noise reduction; radioactive objects; regularization techniques; total variation norm constraint; tumor shape identification; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Engineering in medicine and biology; Image reconstruction; Level set; Maximum likelihood estimation; Noise level; Positron emission tomography; Shape; TV;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8874-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415443