A Compressed-Sensing Based Blind Deconvolution Method for Image Deblurring in Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography.
J Digit Imaging
; 32(3): 478-488, 2019 06.
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ABSTRACT
In cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), reconstructed images are inherently degraded, restricting its image performance, due mainly to imperfections in the imaging process resulting from detector resolution, noise, X-ray tube's focal spot, and reconstruction procedure as well. Thus, the recovery of CBCT images from their degraded version is essential for improving image quality. In this study, we investigated a compressed-sensing (CS)-based blind deconvolution method to solve the blurring problem in CBCT where both the image to be recovered and the blur kernel (or point-spread function) of the imaging system are simultaneously recursively identified. We implemented the proposed algorithm and performed a systematic simulation and experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of using the algorithm for image deblurring in dental CBCT. In the experiment, we used a commercially available dental CBCT system that consisted of an X-ray tube, which was operated at 90 kVp and 5 mA, and a CMOS flat-panel detector with a 200-µm pixel size. The image characteristics were quantitatively investigated in terms of the image intensity, the root-mean-square error, the contrast-to-noise ratio, and the noise power spectrum. The results indicate that our proposed method effectively reduced the image blur in dental CBCT, excluding repetitious measurement of the system's blur kernel.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador
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Aumento de la Imagen
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Radiografía Dental
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Compresión de Datos
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Tomografía Computarizada de Haz Cónico
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
J Digit Imaging
Asunto de la revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
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RADIOLOGIA
Año:
2019
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Article