Statistics on the Manifold of Multivariate Normal Distributions: Theory and Application to Diffusion Tensor MRI Processing

Christophe Lenglet1, Mikaël Rousson2, Rachid Deriche1, Olivier Faugeras1
1I.N.R.I.A Sophia-Antipolis, Sophia-Antipolis, France
2Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA

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