Hoffman Lecture: Bias and Variance: Can One Be Improved Without Degrading the Other?

Monday, June 6 | 11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Room 217A

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Explain the trade-offs between systematic and statistical errors in PET and SPECT image reconstruction.
2. Discuss recent progress in improving these trade-offs via accurate system modeling or incorporation of prior information on the image.

Speaker is:
Michel Defrise, PhD, University Hospital AZ-VUB in Brussels, Belgium.

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