Removing ring artifacts in CBCT images using smoothing based on relative total variation

Qirun Huo, Jianwu Li, Yao Lu*, Ziye Yan

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Abstract

Removing ring artifacts in Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) images without impairing the image quality is critical for the application of CBCT. In this paper, we propose a novel method for the removal of ring artifacts in CBCT Images using an image smoothing based on relative total variation (RTV). After transforming the CBCT image into polar coordinates, we introduce a single-direction smoothing to separate the small scale textures, which include the artifacts, from the image structures. Then the artifact template is generated by median value extraction. Finally, the artifact template is transformed back into Cartesian coordinates and is subtracted from the original CBCT image. Experiments on different CBCT images show that the proposed method can obtain satisfactory results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Proceedings
EditorsKenji Doya, Kazushi Ikeda, Minho Lee, Akira Hirose, Seiichi Ozawa, Derong Liu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages501-509
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319466866
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2016 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 16 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9947 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2016
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period16/10/1621/10/16

Keywords

  • CBCT image
  • Image smoothing
  • Relative total variation
  • Ring artifacts

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