MADR: metal artifact detection and reduction

Sunil Prasad Jaiswal; Sungsoo Ha; Klaus Mueller

doi:10.1117/12.2216918

5 April 2016 MADR: metal artifact detection and reduction

Sunil Prasad Jaiswal, Sungsoo Ha, Klaus Mueller

Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 978333 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216918
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Metal in CT-imaged objects drastically reduces the quality of these images due to the severe artifacts it can cause. Most metal artifacts reduction (MAR) algorithms consider the metal-affected sinogram portions as the corrupted data and replace them via sophisticated interpolation methods. While these schemes are successful in removing the metal artifacts, they fail to recover some of the edge information. To address these problems, the frequency shift metal artifact reduction algorithm (FSMAR) was recently proposed. It exploits the information hidden in the uncorrected image and combines the high frequency (edge) components of the uncorrected image with the low frequency components of the corrected image. Although this can effectively transfer the edge information of the uncorrected image, it also introduces some unwanted artifacts. The essential problem of these algorithms is that they lack the capability of detecting the artifacts and as a result cannot discriminate between desired and undesired edges. We propose a scheme that does better in these respects. Our Metal Artifact Detection and Reduction (MADR) scheme constructs a weight map which stores whether a pixel in the uncorrected image belongs to an artifact region or a non-artifact region. This weight matrix is optimal in the Linear Minimum Mean Square Sense (LMMSE). Our results demonstrate that MADR outperforms the existing algorithms and ensures that the anatomical structures close to metal implants are better preserved.

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Sunil Prasad Jaiswal, Sungsoo Ha, and Klaus Mueller "MADR: metal artifact detection and reduction", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 978333 (5 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216918

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