An efficient method for correcting the edge artifact due to smoothing

✍ Scribed by J. Ma. Maisog; J. Chmielowska

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1065-9471
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1998)6:3<128::aid-hbm2>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

Spatial smoothing is a common pre-processing step in the analysis of functional brain imaging data. It can increase the signal to noise ratio, and specially designed smoothing filters can be used to selectively increase sensitivity to signals of specific shapes and sizes (Rosenfeld and Kak [1982]: Digital