Segmentation aided adaptive filtering for metal artifact reduction in radio-therapeutic CT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1991-2002

  Olive, Céline Saint ^a   Kaus, Michael R ^a   Pekar, Vladimir ^a   Eck, Kai ^a   Spies, Lothar ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Computed tomography (ct); Image segmentation; Metal artifacts; Radio therapy planning

Indexed keywords

METAL ARTIFACTS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (MTF); RADIO-THERAPY PLANNING; RAYS TRAVERSING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 5644240930     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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