Coherent noise remover for optical projection tomography

Liangliang Shi; Di Dong; Yujie Yang; Jun Wang; Alicia Arranz; Jorge Ripoll; Jie Tian

doi:10.1117/12.2081584

17 March 2015 Coherent noise remover for optical projection tomography

Liangliang Shi, Di Dong, Yujie Yang, Jun Wang, Alicia Arranz, Jorge Ripoll, Jie Tian

Proceedings Volume 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 941723 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081584
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) is a 3-Dimentional (3D) imaging technique for small specimens between 1mm and 10mm in size. Due to its high resolution and whole-body imaging ability, OPT has been widely used for imaging of small specimens such as murine embryos, murine organs, zebra fish, and plant sections. During an OPT imaging experiment, the ring artifacts are very common which severely impact the image quality of OPT. A ring artifact is caused by a bad pixel on the camera, or impurities on surface of lens and index matching vessel. Here we term these noises as coherent noise because they stay in the same image region during an OPT experiment. Currently, there is still no effective method to remove coherent noises. To address this problem, we propose a novel method to suppress the coherent noises before 3D OPT reconstruction. Our method consists of two steps: 1) find bad pixel positions on a blank image without specimen by using threshold segmentation, then fix the bad pixels on the projection image by using average of their neighbor pixels, 2) remove remained coherent noises on the sinogram by using Variational Coherent noise Remover (VSNR) method. After the two steps, lots of method can be used to generate the tomographic slices from the modified sinograms. We apply our method to a mouse heart imaging with our home-made OPT system. The experimental results show that our method has a good suppression on coherent noise and greatly improves the image quality. The innovation of our method is that we remove coherent noise automatically from both projection image and sinogram and they complement each other.

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Liangliang Shi, Di Dong, Yujie Yang, Jun Wang, Alicia Arranz, Jorge Ripoll, and Jie Tian "Coherent noise remover for optical projection tomography", Proc. SPIE 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 941723 (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081584

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Image segmentation

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