Rician

R1I1C3I1A1N1
/ɹaɪsiːən/

adjective

Relating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.

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Meanings

adjectiveRician (not comparable)

alternative uncommon Ricean

  1. not comparableRelating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.
    1. not comparableRelating to and especially following the Rician distribution.

      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.

      1999 October 29, Robert D. Nowak, “Wavelet-Based Rician Noise Removal for Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 8, number 10

Origin

From Rice + -ian.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

CariniIranic
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Chicago

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