APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-ORIENTED BLENDING OF RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured toobtain a plurality of images representing respective computed tomography (CT) reconstructed images with different degrees of denoising,receive one or more indicia indicating content and/or context of a display image to be displayed on a display,determine weighting coefficients based on the one or more indicia, combine the plurality of images using the weighting coefficients to generate a blended image, andcontrol a display to display the blended image as the display image.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided generate a display image that optimize a tradeoff between resolution and noise by using blending weights/ratio based on the content/context of the image. The blending weights control the relative weights when combining multiple computed tomography (CT) images having different degrees of smoothing/denoising to generate a display image having the optimal tradeoff lying within the continuum between/among the CT images. The blending weights are automated based on information indicating the content/context of the display image (e.g., the segmented tissue type, average attenuation, and the display setting such as window width and window level). Thus, indicia indicating content/context of the image determine the weighting coefficients, which are used in a weighted sum, e.g., to combine the plurality of images with different noise/smoothing parameters into a single blended image, which is displayed.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
circuitry configured to obtain a plurality of images representing respective computed tomography (CT) reconstructed images with different degrees of denoising, receive one or more indicia indicating content and/or context of a display image to be displayed on a display, determine weighting coefficients based on the one or more indicia, combine the plurality of images using the weighting coefficients to generate a blended image, and control a display to display the blended image as the display image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computed tomography (CT) scanner, comprising:
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an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays; a detector configured to receive the X-rays at a plurality of detector elements and generate projection data representing an intensity of the X-rays at the plurality of detector elements; and circuitry configured to generate a plurality of images representing respective CT images reconstructed images from the projection data, each of the plurality of images having a different degree of denoising with respect to others of the plurality of images, receive one or more indicia indicating content and/or context of a display image to be displayed on a display, determine weighting coefficients based on the one or more indicia, combine the plurality of images using the weighting coefficients to generate a blended image, and control a display to display the blended image as the display image.
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16. A method, comprising:
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obtaining a plurality of images representing respective computed tomography (CT) reconstructed images with different degrees of denoising, receiving one or more indicia indicating content and/or context of a display image to be displayed on a display, determining weighting coefficients based on the one or more indicia, combining the plurality of images using the weighting coefficients to generate a blended image, and controlling a display to display the blended image as the display image. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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