Abstract
Discrete tomography (DT) techniques are capable of computing better results, even using less number of projections than the continuous tomography techniques. Discrete Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (DART) is an iterative reconstruction method proposed to achieve this goal by exploiting a prior knowledge on the gray levels and assuming that the scanned object is composed from a few different densities. In this paper, DART method is combined with an initial total variation minimization (TvMin) phase to ensure a better initial guess and extended with a segmentation procedure in which the threshold values are estimated from a finite set of candidates to minimize both the projection error and the total variation (TV) simultaneously. The accuracy and the robustness of the algorithm is compared with the original DART by the simulation experiments which are done under (1) limited number of projections, (2) limited view problem and (3) noisy projections conditions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 7494-7497 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781424492718 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Nov 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 - Milan, Italy Duration: 25 Aug 2015 → 29 Aug 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS |
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Volume | 2015-November |
ISSN (Print) | 1557-170X |
Conference
Conference | 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015 |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Milan |
Period | 25/08/15 → 29/08/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 IEEE.
Keywords
- algebraic reconstruction techniques
- compressed sensing
- Discrete Tomography
- global thresholding
- image reconstruction
- total variation minimization