Abstract

This study was conducted to improve cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) image quality using the super-resolution technique, a method of inferring a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. This technique is used with two matrices, so-called dictionaries, constructed respectively from high-resolution and low-resolution image bases. For this study, a CBCT image, as a low-resolution image, is represented as a linear combination of atoms, the image bases in the low-resolution dictionary. The corresponding super-resolution image was inferred by multiplying the coefficients and the high-resolution dictionary atoms extracted from planning CT images. To evaluate the proposed method, we computed the root mean square error (RMSE) and structural similarity (SSIM). The resulting RMSE and SSIM between the super-resolution images and the planning CT images were, respectively, as much as 0.81 and 1.29 times better than those obtained without using the super-resolution technique. We used super-resolution technique to improve the CBCT image quality.

Details

Title
Image quality improvement in cone-beam CT using the super-resolution technique
Author
Oyama, Asuka 1 ; Kumagai, Shinobu 2 ; Arai, Norikazu 2 ; Takata, Takeshi 1 ; Saikawa, Yusuke 1 ; Shiraishi, Kenshiro 3 ; Kobayashi, Takenori 1 ; Jun’ichi Kotoku 4 

 Graduate School of Medical Care and Technology, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan 
 Central Radiology Division, Teikyo University Hospital, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan 
 Department of Radiology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan 
 Graduate School of Medical Care and Technology, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Central Radiology Division, Teikyo University Hospital, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan 
Pages
501-510
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Jul 2018
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISSN
04493060
e-ISSN
13499157
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3170634095
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Japan Radiation Research Society and Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.