Distortion correction for x-ray image intensifiers: Local unwarping polynomials and RBF neural networks

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1759-1771

  Cerveri, P ^a   Forlani, C ^a   Borghese, N A ^b   Ferrigno, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distortion estimation; HRBF networks; Image correction; Radiographic image enhancement; X ray image intensifier

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); PIXELS; POLYNOMIALS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

DISTORTION CORRECTION; DISTORTION ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; IMAGE CORRECTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; X-RAY IMAGE INTENSIFIERS;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; ELECTRON BEAM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; X RAY PICTURE;

CHAENACTIS;

EID: 0036703401     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1488602     Document Type: Article

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