CT Image Restoration Based on I-Divergence Minimization

4/19/01


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CT Image Restoration Based on I-Divergence Minimization

Abstract

Outline

Cochlear Implantation

Cochlear Implant System

Electrode Array in the Cochlea

Why Cochlear Imaging?

Spiral/Helical CT as a Linear System

Linear System - Blurring & Deblurring

Linear System Visualization

Traditional Solution

Linear Imaging

Discrepancy Is Decomposable

Discrepancy Is “Orthogonal”

Discrepancy Is Regular

Discrepancy Is Invariant to Scaling

Functional Form of Discrepancy

Discrepancy Measures

I-Divergence

I-Divergence in the Measurement Space

EM-like Iterative Deblurring

Why EM-Like Iterative Deblurring

Assumptions by Snyder et al.

Assumptions by Wang et al.

CT Image Deblurring Formulas

Unwrapping of the Cochlear Canal

Numerical Simulation

Patient Studies

Blind Deblurring of Spiral CT Images for Cochlear Implantation

Blind Deblurring

Our Idea for Blind Deblurring

Patient Studies

Discussions

References

Acknowledgments

Author: Ge Wang

Email: ge-wang@uiowa.edu

Home Page: http://dolphin.radiology.uiowa.edu/ge