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Comparison of two approaches for attenuation imaging using the spectral log difference method: Regularized inversion versus image filtering

dc.contributor.author Coila A.L. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Lavarello Montero R.J. es_PE
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description.abstract Attenuation imaging using spectral techniques such as the spectral log difference (SLD) method suffers from a severe trade-off between spatial resolution and estimation variance. Recently, the regularized spectral log difference (RSLD) method was proposed as a technique that extends such trade-off by incorporating spatial priors (i.e., total variation) in the inversion process. However, the reduction of the variance of attenuation images could also be accomplished by post-processing of the attenuation maps using noise reduction techniques. The main goal of this study is to determine which strategy (i.e., noise handling during or after the attenuation image reconstruction) provides attenuation maps of better quality, both with synthetic data and experimental data obtained from calibrated physical phantoms. The results suggest that the noise rejection mechanism of RSLD significantly outperforms post-processing SLD images by filtering, nearly doubling the contrast-to-noise ratio for comparable values of estimation bias. © 2018 SPIE.
dc.description.sponsorship Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concytec
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292690
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85049330684
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/2777
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher SPIE
dc.relation.ispartof Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject total variation
dc.subject Attenuation imaging es_PE
dc.subject image denoising es_PE
dc.subject regularization es_PE
dc.subject spectral log difference es_PE
dc.subject.ocde http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.28
dc.title Comparison of two approaches for attenuation imaging using the spectral log difference method: Regularized inversion versus image filtering
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dspace.entity.type Publication
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