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OPED reconstruction algorithm for limited angle problem
The structure of the reconstruction algorithm OPED permits a natural way to
generate additional data, while still preserving the essential feature of the
algorithm. This provides a method for image reconstruction for limited angel
problems. In stead of completing the set of data, the set of discrete sine
transforms of the data is completed. This is achieved by solving systems of
linear equations that have, upon choosing appropriate parameters, positive
definite coefficient matrices. Numerical examples are presented.Comment: 17 page
Computerized Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images to Study Cerebral Anatomy in Developing Neonates
The study of cerebral anatomy in developing neonates is of great importance for
the understanding of brain development during the early period of life. This
dissertation therefore focuses on three challenges in the modelling of cerebral
anatomy in neonates during brain development. The methods that have been
developed all use Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) as source data.
To facilitate study of vascular development in the neonatal period, a set of image
analysis algorithms are developed to automatically extract and model cerebral
vessel trees. The whole process consists of cerebral vessel tracking from
automatically placed seed points, vessel tree generation, and vasculature
registration and matching. These algorithms have been tested on clinical Time-of-
Flight (TOF) MR angiographic datasets.
To facilitate study of the neonatal cortex a complete cerebral cortex segmentation
and reconstruction pipeline has been developed. Segmentation of the neonatal
cortex is not effectively done by existing algorithms designed for the adult brain
because the contrast between grey and white matter is reversed. This causes pixels
containing tissue mixtures to be incorrectly labelled by conventional methods. The
neonatal cortical segmentation method that has been developed is based on a novel
expectation-maximization (EM) method with explicit correction for mislabelled
partial volume voxels. Based on the resulting cortical segmentation, an implicit
surface evolution technique is adopted for the reconstruction of the cortex in
neonates. The performance of the method is investigated by performing a detailed
landmark study.
To facilitate study of cortical development, a cortical surface registration algorithm
for aligning the cortical surface is developed. The method first inflates extracted
cortical surfaces and then performs a non-rigid surface registration using free-form
deformations (FFDs) to remove residual alignment. Validation experiments using
data labelled by an expert observer demonstrate that the method can capture local
changes and follow the growth of specific sulcus
Superiorization and Perturbation Resilience of Algorithms: A Continuously Updated Bibliography
This document presents a, (mostly) chronologically ordered, bibliography of
scientific publications on the superiorization methodology and perturbation
resilience of algorithms which is compiled and continuously updated by us at:
http://math.haifa.ac.il/yair/bib-superiorization-censor.html. Since the
beginings of this topic we try to trace the work that has been published about
it since its inception. To the best of our knowledge this bibliography
represents all available publications on this topic to date, and while the URL
is continuously updated we will revise this document and bring it up to date on
arXiv approximately once a year. Abstracts of the cited works, and some links
and downloadable files of preprints or reprints are available on the above
mentioned Internet page. If you know of a related scientific work in any form
that should be included here kindly write to me on: [email protected] with
full bibliographic details, a DOI if available, and a PDF copy of the work if
possible. The Internet page was initiated on March 7, 2015, and has been last
updated on March 12, 2020.Comment: Original report: June 13, 2015 contained 41 items. First revision:
March 9, 2017 contained 64 items. Second revision: March 8, 2018 contained 76
items. Third revision: March 11, 2019 contains 90 items. Fourth revision:
March 16, 2020 contains 112 item
Evaluation of Solid Electrode Array Effects in Computerized Section Construction Procedure for Resistivity Interpretation
The future effectiveness of the resistivity method depends upon its ability to interpret field data obtained under more complex geological structure environments, such as weathered overburden layers, vertical contacts, faults, fracturezones, deep bed rocks or host rocks, nearsurface lateral or local inhomogeneities and various topographies. Electrical solid array resistivity techniques by using hole-to-surface and cross-hole electrode configurations may be able to extract and enhance the responses (signals) due to deep or small target inhomogeneities. Recently, in geophysical prospecting, some tomographic reconstruction algorithms have been investigated. Especially, the tomographic analysis of seismic data has lately become a powerful tool for geophysical researches. In this study, the electrical solid array effects for the computerized section construction procedure have been evaluated. Investigating the solid array element effects in the initial procedure of the tomographic image reconstruction from resistivity measurements has important interpretive advantages. In this paper, some following points are discussed ; ( 1 ) Sensitivity distribution technique as an aid to investigate the characteristics of the tomography solid electrode arrays. ( 2 ) Significance of electrode-probing configuration and array combination pattern design. ( 3 ) Resistivity computerized section construction procedure by using the sensitivity distribution technique to the inverse problem. ( 4 ) An evaluation of solid electrode array effects in the resistivity computerized section construction procedure
Iterative CT reconstruction using shearlet-based regularization
In computerized tomography, it is important to reduce the image noise without increasing the acquisition dose. Extensive research has been done into total variation minimization for image denoising and sparse-view reconstruction. However, TV minimization methods show superior denoising performance for simple images (with little texture), but result in texture information loss when applied to more complex images. Since in medical imaging, we are often confronted with textured images, it might not be beneficial to use TV. Our objective is to find a regularization term outperforming TV for sparse-view reconstruction and image denoising in general. A recent efficient solver was developed for convex problems, based on a split-Bregman approach, able to incorporate regularization terms different from TV. In this work, a proof-of-concept study demonstrates the usage of the discrete shearlet transform as a sparsifying transform within this solver for CT reconstructions. In particular, the regularization term is the 1-norm of the shearlet coefficients. We compared our newly developed shearlet approach to traditional TV on both sparse-view and on low-count simulated and measured preclinical data. Shearlet-based regularization does not outperform TV-based regularization for all datasets. Reconstructed images exhibit small aliasing artifacts in sparse-view reconstruction problems, but show no staircasing effect. This results in a slightly higher resolution than with TV-based regularization
Autofocus for digital Fresnel holograms by use of a Fresnelet-sparsity criterion
We propose a robust autofocus method for reconstructing digital Fresnel holograms. The numerical reconstruction
involves simulating the propagation of a complex wave front to the appropriate distance. Since the latter value is difficult to determine manually, it is desirable to rely on an automatic procedure for finding the optimal distance to achieve high-quality reconstructions. Our algorithm maximizes a sharpness metric related to the sparsity of the signal’s expansion in distance-dependent waveletlike Fresnelet bases. We show results from simulations and experimental situations that confirm its applicability
Joint Image Reconstruction and Segmentation Using the Potts Model
We propose a new algorithmic approach to the non-smooth and non-convex Potts
problem (also called piecewise-constant Mumford-Shah problem) for inverse
imaging problems. We derive a suitable splitting into specific subproblems that
can all be solved efficiently. Our method does not require a priori knowledge
on the gray levels nor on the number of segments of the reconstruction.
Further, it avoids anisotropic artifacts such as geometric staircasing. We
demonstrate the suitability of our method for joint image reconstruction and
segmentation. We focus on Radon data, where we in particular consider limited
data situations. For instance, our method is able to recover all segments of
the Shepp-Logan phantom from angular views only. We illustrate the
practical applicability on a real PET dataset. As further applications, we
consider spherical Radon data as well as blurred data
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