Influence of DBT reconstruction algorithm on power law spectrum coefficient

Laurence Vancamberg; Ann-Katherine Carton; Ilyes Hadj Abderrahmane; Giovanni Palma; Pablo Milioni de Carvalho; Răzvan Iordache; Serge Muller

doi:10.1117/12.2081969

18 March 2015 Influence of DBT reconstruction algorithm on power law spectrum coefficient

Laurence Vancamberg, Ann-Katherine Carton, Ilyes Hadj Abderrahmane, Giovanni Palma, Pablo Milioni de Carvalho, Răzvan Iordache, Serge Muller

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Proceedings Volume 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging; 941236 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081969
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In breast X-ray images, texture has been characterized by a noise power spectrum (NPS) that has an inverse power-law shape described by its slope β in the log-log domain. It has been suggested that the magnitude of the power-law spectrum coefficient β is related to mass lesion detection performance. We assessed β in reconstructed digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images to evaluate its sensitivity to different typical reconstruction algorithms including simple back projection (SBP), filtered back projection (FBP) and a simultaneous iterative reconstruction algorithm (SIRT 30 iterations). Results were further compared to the β coefficient estimated from 2D central DBT projections. The calculations were performed on 31 unilateral clinical DBT data sets and simulated DBT images from 31 anthropomorphic software breast phantoms. Our results show that β highly depends on the reconstruction algorithm; the highest β values were found for SBP, followed by reconstruction with FBP, while the lowest β values were found for SIRT. In contrast to previous studies, we found that β is not always lower in reconstructed DBT slices, compared to 2D projections and this depends on the reconstruction algorithm. All β values estimated in DBT slices reconstructed with SBP were larger than β values from 2D central projections. Our study also shows that the reconstruction algorithm affects the symmetry of the breast texture NPS; the NPS of clinical cases reconstructed with SBP exhibit the highest symmetry, while the NPS of cases reconstructed with SIRT exhibit the highest asymmetry.

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Laurence Vancamberg, Ann-Katherine Carton, Ilyes Hadj Abderrahmane, Giovanni Palma, Pablo Milioni de Carvalho, Răzvan Iordache, and Serge Muller "Influence of DBT reconstruction algorithm on power law spectrum coefficient", Proc. SPIE 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging, 941236 (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081969

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