Estimating the number of peaks in a random field using the Hadwiger characteristic of excursion sets, with applications to medical images

DOI10.1214/aos/1176324540zbMath0898.62120OpenAlexW2037487074MaRDI QIDQ1896275

Publication date: 8 November 1998

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176324540

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristic stereology image analysis excursion set pain perception Hadwiger characteristic isotropic stationary random field PET studies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields (60G60) Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22)

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