ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION FOR X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY USING PRIOR-IMAGE INDUCED NONLOCAL REGULARIZATION
Patent №
US 9,558,570
Granted
2017-01-31
Filed 2015
Owner
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Lab
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AI components
2
ml · vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14784714
Disclosed is a method for performing X-ray Computed Tomography scanning, the method including acquiring a plurality of images of an object, obtaining an initial image from the plurality of images, calculating NonLocal weight of the initial image, utilizing a current image estimation and registered prior image, performing a successive over-relaxation optimization to yield a new image estimation with an intensity of the new image estimation equal or greater than zero, performing a cycle update, generating an image of the object utilizing the new image estimation obtained from the optimization, and outputting a resultant image.
AI classification
Ownership
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
assignment · 368920068
Assignors
LIANG, JEROME Z., MA, JIANHUA, ZHANG, HAO, MOORE, WILLIAM, HAN, HAO
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