基于正弦图融合的金属伪影校正方法（英文）

Sinogram fusion-based metal artifact correction method

针对金属伪影严重降低了CT图像中组织结构清晰度的问题,提出了基于正弦图融合的金属伪影校正方法.首先,通过预先设置的阈值对原始CT图像进行分割,得到金属图像.对原始CT图像和金属图像进行投影生成原始投影正弦图和金属投影正弦图.使用插值校正方法校正含有金属伪影的CT图像和均值滤波维持校正后CT图像的边界.滤波之后图像被投影成滤波图像正弦图.根据金属图像正弦图在原始正弦图和滤波后图像对应正弦图中的位置,分别得到正弦图P_M^D(在原始正弦图中)和P_M^C (在滤波后图像对应正弦图中).然后,按照一定的比例,将P_M^D 和P_M^C 融合成正弦图P_M^F ,并通过融合正弦图P_M^F ,P^O和P_M^D 得到最终正弦图.最后,用滤波反投影重建算法将最终正弦图重建成校正之后的图像,并将金属信息补偿到校正图像上.临床图像上的实验表明:与经典金属伪影校正方法相比,所提出的基于正弦图融合方法在金属伪影去除和组织结构特征保存方面能够得到更好的效果.

To solve the problem that metal artifacts severely damage the clarity of the organization structure in computed tomography（CT） images, a sinogram fusion-based metal artifact correction method is proposed. First, the metal image is segmented from the original CT image by the pre-set threshold. The original CT image and metal image are forward projected into the original projection sinogram and metal projection sinogram, respectively. The interpolation-based correction method and mean filter are used to correct the original CT image and preserve the edge of the corrected CT image, respectively. The filtered CT image is forward projected into the filtered image sinogram. According to the position of the metal sinogram in the original sinogram and filtered image sinogram, the corresponding sinograms PM^D （ in the original sinogram） and PM^C （ in the filtered image sinogram）can be acquired from the original sinogram and filtered image sinogram, respectively. Then, PM^D and PM^C are fused into the fused metal sinogram PM^F according to a certain proportion.The final sinogram can be acquired by fusing PM^F , PM^D and the original sinogram P^O. Finally, the final sinogram is reconstructed into the corrected CT image and metal information is compensated into the corrected CT image.Experiments on clinical images demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively reduce metal artifacts. A comparison with classical metal artifacts correction methods shows that the proposed metal artifacts correction method performs better in metal artifacts suppression and tissue feature preservation.