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Ordered subsets algorithms for transmission tomography.

H Erdogan1, J A Fessler

  • 1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2122, USA.

Physics in Medicine and Biology
|December 10, 1999
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A new separable paraboloidal surrogates (SPS) algorithm for transmission tomography accelerates convergence. The ordered subsets transmission (OSTR) variant shows early-iterate speedups, outperforming OSEM but yielding to penalized-likelihood methods for image quality.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Tomography

Background:

  • The Ordered Subsets EM (OSEM) algorithm is widely used for emission image reconstruction due to its speed and programming simplicity.
  • Traditional transmission EM reconstruction algorithms suffer from slow convergence, limiting their practical application.
  • Existing methods like the 'convex algorithm' may lack monotonicity with non-zero background counts in transmission tomography.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel, faster-converging simultaneous update algorithm for transmission tomography.
  • To investigate the application of the ordered subsets principle to this new algorithm for accelerated convergence.
  • To compare the performance of the new algorithm against existing methods, including OSEM and penalized-likelihood approaches.

Main Methods:

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  • Development and implementation of a simultaneous update algorithm named separable paraboloidal surrogates (SPS).
  • Application of the ordered subsets principle to the SPS algorithm, creating the ordered subsets transmission (OSTR) algorithm.
  • Evaluation of OSTR, SPS, OSEM (applied to log transmission data), and penalized-likelihood methods using mean square errors and segmentation errors.

Main Results:

  • The SPS algorithm demonstrates significantly faster convergence than traditional transmission EM algorithms.
  • The OSTR algorithm accelerates early-iterate objective function increase compared to the standard SPS algorithm, similar to OSEM's acceleration.
  • OSTR shows superiority over OSEM for transmission data, though penalized-likelihood reconstructions achieve the highest image quality.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed SPS algorithm offers a more efficient approach to transmission tomography reconstruction.
  • The OSTR algorithm effectively speeds up convergence, providing a valuable alternative for transmission image reconstruction.
  • Penalized-likelihood methods remain the gold standard for achieving the best image quality in transmission tomography.