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Development of Adaptive Spatial Filter to Improve Noise Characteristics of PET Images  

Woo, S. K. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Computer Engineering, Konkuk University)
Choi, Y. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Im, K. C. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Song, T. Y. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Jung, J. H. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Lee, K. H. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Kim, S. E. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Choe, Y. S. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Park, C. C. (Department of Computer Engineering, Konkuk University)
Kim, B. T. (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Research, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
Publication Information
Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.23, no.3, 2002 , pp. 253-261 More about this Journal
Abstract
A spatially adaptive falter was formulated to imrove PET image qualify and the Performance of the filter was evaluated using simulation and phantom and human PET studies. In the proposed filter. if a pixel was identified as the edge Pixel, the Pixel value was Preserved. Otherwise a Pixel was replaced by the mean of the pixel values weighted by 2:7: 2. A Pixel was identified as the edge Pixel. if it satisfies the following conditions : the number of ADs (absolute difference between center and neighborhood pixels) which is smaller than THl (($pix_max{\times}0.1/log_2(NPM)$, NPM : mean of 6 neighborhood pixels excluding minimum and maximum) is 8-k and the number of ADs which is lager than TH2 ($NPM{\times}0.1$) is k. where k : 2, 3, …, 6. The results of this study demonstrate the superior performance of the Proposed titter compared to Gaussian fitter, weight median filter and subset averaged median filter. The proposed tittering method is simple but effective in increasing uniformity and contrast with minimal degradation of spatial resolution of PET images and thus. is expected to Provide improved diagnositc quality PET images .
Keywords
Spatially adaptive filter; Edge detection; PET image;
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