Rician

English

Alternative forms

  • Ricean (less common)

Etymology

From Rice +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹaɪsiːən/

Adjective

Rician (not comparable)

  1. Relating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.
    1. Relating to and especially following the Rician distribution.
      • 1999 October, Robert D. Nowak, “Wavelet-Based Rician Noise Removal for Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 8, number 10:
        Unlike previously proposed methods for MRI estimation based on wavelet coefficient soft thresholding and related thresholding methods, the new approach in this paper explicitly accounts for the Rician nature of the data.

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