The theme of this chapter is statistical methods in imaging, with a marked emphasis on the Bayesian perspective.The application of statistical notions and techniques in imaging requires that images and the available data are redefined in terms of random variables, the genesis and interpretation of randomness playing a major role in deciding whether the approach will be along frequentist or Baye...

2 Random Variable Generation 5 2.1 Basic Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 Congruential Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.2 The Kiss Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.3 Beyond Uniform Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.2 Transformation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 Accept-Reject Met...