Abstract
Background
During the past decade, the computed tomography has been successfully applied to various fields especially in medicine. The estimation of view angles for projections is necessary in some special applications of tomography, for example, the structuring of viruses using electron microscopy and the compensation of the patient's motion over long scanning period.
Methods
This work introduces a novel approach, based on the spherical multidimensional scaling (sMDS), which transforms the problem of the angle estimation to a sphere constrained embedding problem. The proposed approach views each projection as a high dimensional vector with dimensionality equal to the number of sampling points on the projection. By using SMDS, then each projection vector is embedded onto a 1D sphere which parameterizes the projection with respect to view angles in a globally consistent manner. The parameterized projections are used for the final reconstruction of the image through the inverse radon transform. The entire reconstruction process is non-iterative and computationally efficient.
Results
The effectiveness of the sMDS is verified with various experiments, including the evaluation of the reconstruction quality from different number of projections and resistance to different noise levels. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
Conclusion
Our study provides an effective technique for the solution of 2D tomography with unknown acquisition view angles. The proposed method will be extended to three dimensional reconstructions in our future work. All materials, including source code and demos, are available onhttps://engineering.purdue.edu/PRECISE/SMDS.
Date of this Version
6-2010
DOI
10.1186/1471-2342-10-12
Recommended Citation
Fang, Yi; Murugappan, Sundar; and Ramani, Karthik, "Estimating View Parameters From Random Projections for Tomography Using Spherical MDS" (2010). School of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 4.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-10-12
Comments
This is the publisher pdf of Yi Fang, Sundar Murugappan, Karthik Ramani. Estimating View Parameters From Random Projections for Tomography Using Spherical MDS. BMC Medical Imaging 2010, 10:12 (18 June 2010) and is available at: 10.1186/1471-2342-10-12.