CAN ANISOTROPIC IMAGES BE UPSAMPLED?

Mads F. Hansen, Thomas H. Mosbech, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Michael S. Hansen, Rasmus Larsen

2010

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for upsampling anisotropic medical gray-scale images. The resolution is increased by fitting an image function, modeled by cubic B-splines, to the slices. The method simulates the observed slices with an image function and iteratively updates the function by comparing the simulated slices with observed slices. The approach handles partial voluming by modeling the thickness of the slices. The formulation is ill-posed, and thus a prior needs to be included. Correspondences between adjacent slices are established using a symmetric registration method with a free-form deformation model. The correspondences are then converted into a prior that penalizes gradients along lines of correspondence. Tests on the Shepp-Logan phantom show promising results, and the approach performs better than methods such as cubic interpolation and one-way registration-based interpolation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

F. Hansen M., H. Mosbech T., Ólafsdóttir H., S. Hansen M. and Larsen R. (2010). CAN ANISOTROPIC IMAGES BE UPSAMPLED? . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-028-3, pages 76-81. DOI: 10.5220/0002846500760081

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp10,
author={Mads F. Hansen and Thomas H. Mosbech and Hildur Ólafsdóttir and Michael S. Hansen and Rasmus Larsen},
title={CAN ANISOTROPIC IMAGES BE UPSAMPLED?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={76-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002846500760081},
isbn={978-989-674-028-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - CAN ANISOTROPIC IMAGES BE UPSAMPLED?
SN - 978-989-674-028-3
AU - F. Hansen M.
AU - H. Mosbech T.
AU - Ólafsdóttir H.
AU - S. Hansen M.
AU - Larsen R.
PY - 2010
SP - 76
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0002846500760081