<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear itk-users,</p><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am planing to extend the itk::Statistics::MixtureModelComponentBase class to deal with t-Student distribution. </div>
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My questions are:</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
a) Does anybody have done this already or worked on something similar ?<br><div><br></div><div>b) Since t-student distribution is not <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">not part of the </span><em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">exponential</em><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px"> families, can I still use the itk base-classes of the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">Expectation-Maximization algorithm used to estimate the parameters of </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">Gaussian Mixture Models ?</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">I would appreciate any help on this topic. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px"><br>
</span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:10.666666984558105px">Thank you,</span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:10.666666984558105px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:10.666666984558105px">Ricardo</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.909090995788574px">
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">PS: I would like to thank you all for the great and important tool provided for the biomedical imaging community. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px">The ITK library has been the tool that I have been using for my research and teaching purposes.</span></div>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:10.666666984558105px"><br></span></div><br>---------<br>Ricardo J. Ferrari, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor<br>Federal University of São Carlos<br>
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