Title |
Masked smoothing using separable kernels for CT perfusion images
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Published in |
BMC Medical Imaging, August 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2342-14-28 |
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Authors |
David S Wack, Kenneth V Snyder, Kevin F Seals, Adnan H Siddiqui |
Abstract |
CT perfusion images have a high contrast ratio between voxels representing different anatomy, such as tissue or vessels, which makes image segmentation of tissue and vascular regions relatively easy. However, grey and white matter tissue regions have relatively low values and can suffer from poor signal to noise ratios. While smoothing can improve the image quality of the tissue regions, the inclusion of much higher valued vascular voxels can skew the tissue values. It is thus desirable to smooth tissue voxels separately from other voxel types, as has been previously implemented using mean filter kernels. We created a novel Masked Smoothing method that performs Gaussian smoothing restricted to tissue voxels. Unlike previous methods, it is implemented as a combination of separable kernels and is therefore fast enough to consider for clinical work, even for large kernel sizes. |
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