CT Image Restoration Based on I-Divergence Minimization

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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

References

Acknowledgments

Author: Ge Wang, PhD

Email: ge-wang@uiowa.edu

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