Optimized anisotropic rotational invariant diffusion scheme on cone-beam CT

Authors:
Dirk-Jan Kroon;Cornelis H. Slump;Thomas J. J. Maal
Affiliations:
University of Twente, The Netherlands;University of Twente, The Netherlands;Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands
Venue:
MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention: Part III
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important image modality for dental surgery planning, with high resolution images at a relative low radiation dose. In these scans the mandibular canal is hardly visible, this is a problem for implant surgery planning. We use anisotropic diffusion filtering to remove noise and enhance the mandibular canal in CBCT scans. For the diffusion tensor we use hybrid diffusion with a continuous switch (HDCS), suitable for filtering both tubular as planar image structures. We focus in this paper on the diffusion discretization schemes. The standard scheme shows good isotropic filtering behavior but is not rotational invariant, the diffusion scheme of Weickert is rotational invariant but suffers from checkerboard artifacts. We introduce a new scheme, in which we numerically optimize the image derivatives. This scheme is rotational invariant and shows good isotropic filtering properties on both synthetic as real CBCT data.