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Estimation of Point Spread Function (PSF) in Ultrasound Imaging
Clara M Mosquera Lopez
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OUTLINE
•Introduction•Project goals•Homomorphic filtering for PSF estimation•Results•Conclusions and future work
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Introduction•Ultrasound imaging uses high-energy sound
waves generated by a transducer in the frequency range 1-20 MHz.▫Waves pass through the human body and reflect
off surfaces of discontinuity in density.• Intensity levels in an ultrasound image
depends on:▫the amplitude and frequency of the reflected
wave,▫and the time it takes to return from the body to
the transducer.
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Advantages of ultrasound imaging• Ultrasound imaging is an important diagnostic and
guidance tool due to several factors:▫ It is non-invasive▫ It is free of ionizing radiation▫ It is cheaper than other imaging techniques▫ It produces images in real-time ▫ It is portable
• Several applications▫Prenatal ultrasound▫Tumor detection▫ Image guided biopsy and surgery▫Treatment evaluation
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Disadvantages of ultrasound imaging
•Poor image quality▫Attenuation▫High levels of speckle
noise▫Low contrast between
regions Not well-defined boundaries
▫Signal dropout during image acquisition
Breast ultrasound image
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Project goals
•To find a clean approximation of the spatial reflectance distribution of the internal organs of the human body under study▫Estimate the point spread function (PSF) of
the imaging system▫Perfom image deconvolution (blind
deconvolution) based on the estimated PSF
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Scope of Project 1
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Initial PSF estimation (1)
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Image of the object
PSF
Additive noise
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vuHvuFvuG ,log,log,log
vuHvuFvuG ,,, yxg ,
Cepstral domainFFT log( )
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Initial PSF estimation (2)
vuHvuFvuG ,log,log,log
vuHvuFvuG ,,,
Low-frequency components
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Initial PSF estimation (3)
•Low-pass filter in Haar wavelet domain and median filter
vuHvuFvuG ,log,log,log
vuHvuFvuG ,,,
Wavelet-based denoising
Median filtering
3x3
Hard thresholging of detail coefficients
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Inverse tramsformations
vuH , yxh ,iFFT
vuH ,log
vuH ,
Cepstral domain
vuH ,
vuH ,
vuH ,log^10
vuH , ),*exp( vuHj
yxf ,Deconvolution
(g,h)
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ResultsDegraded image
Phase of G Fourier transformlog-magnitude of G Fourier transform
Filtered phase of H Fourier transformFiltered log-magnitude of H Fourier transform
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Obstetric ultrasound image (1)
Filtered imageDegraded image
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Obstetric ultrasound image (2)
Degraded image Filtered image
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Conclusions and future work• A homomorphic filter was implemented in
order to estimate the PSF of an ultrasound imaging system from the image itself. The estimated PSF is used in a deconvolution algorithm to get an improved version of the image produced by a given device
• Future work:▫ To obtain a quantitative metric to evaluate
the performance of the algortihm▫ To refine the PSF estimation
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ReferencesBenameur S., Mignotte, M., and Lavoie, F., “A homomorphic filtering and expectation maximization approach for the PSF estimation in ultrasound imaging,” Proc. SPIE Image Processing: Algortithms and Systems X, 8p., 2012.