Metal and calcification artifact reduction for digital breast tomosynthesis

Julia Wicklein; Anna Jerebko; Ludwig Ritschl; Thomas Mertelmeier

doi:10.1117/12.2254307

9 March 2017 Metal and calcification artifact reduction for digital breast tomosynthesis

Julia Wicklein, Anna Jerebko, Ludwig Ritschl, Thomas Mertelmeier

Proceedings Volume 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging; 1013224 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254307
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Tomosynthesis images of the breast suffer from artifacts caused by the presence of highly absorbing materials. These can be either induced by metal objects like needles or clips inserted during biopsy devices, or larger calcifications inside the examined breast. Mainly two different kinds of artifacts appear after the filtered backprojection procedure. The first type is undershooting artifacts near edges of high-contrast objects caused by the filtering step. The second type is out-of-plane (ripple) artifacts that appear even in slices where the metal object or macrocalcifications does not exist. Due to the limited angular range of tomosynthesis systems, overlapping structures have high influence on neighboring regions. To overcome these problems, a segmentation of artifact introducing objects is performed on the projection images. Both projection versions, with and without high-contrast objects are filtered independently to avoid undershootings. During backprojection a decision is made for each reconstructed voxel, if it is artifact or high-contrast object. This is based on a mask image, gained from the segmentation of high-contrast objects. This procedure avoids undershooting artifacts and additionally reduces out-of-plane ripple. Results are demonstrated for different kinds of artifact inducing objects and calcifications.

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Julia Wicklein, Anna Jerebko, Ludwig Ritschl, and Thomas Mertelmeier "Metal and calcification artifact reduction for digital breast tomosynthesis", Proc. SPIE 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging, 1013224 (9 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254307

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