• DocumentCode
    398526
  • Title

    A new statistical model for nonRayleigh amplitude signals

  • Author

    Eltoft, Torbjorn

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Tromso Univ., Norway
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    14-17 Sept. 2003
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we introduce a new statistical distribution for modeling nonRayleigh amplitude statistics. We call the new model the Rician Inverse Gaussian (RilG) distribution. The theoretical basis of the model is briefly presented, and we give an EM-type algorithm for estimating its parameters from data. Finally, we include some modeling examples, where we have tested the ability to fit to histograms of linear and log-compressed medical ultrasound data.
  • Keywords
    Gaussian distribution; amplitude estimation; biomedical ultrasonics; image classification; EM-type algorithm; Rician Inverse Gaussian distribution; log-compressed medical ultrasound data; nonRayleigh amplitude statistics; statistical distribution; Histograms; Inverse problems; Parameter estimation; Physics; Probability density function; Rayleigh scattering; Rician channels; Signal detection; Speckle; Statistical distributions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1522-4880
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7750-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246941
  • Filename
    1246941