MAgnitude and PHase Thresholding (MAPHT) of noisy complex-valued magnetic resonance images

It is often desirable to separate voxels that contain signal from tissue along with measurement noise from those that contain purely measurement noise. Generally, this separation called thresholding utilizes only the magnitude portion of the images. Recently, methods have been developed that utilize both the magnitude and phase for thresholding voxels. This manuscript is an extension previous work and uses the bivariate normality of the real …