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Nonlinear filtering approach to 3-D gray-scale image interpolation
W E Higgins1, C J Orlick, B E Ledell
1Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA.
Abstract:
Three-dimensional (3-D) images are now common in radiology. A 3-D image is formed by stacking a contiguous sequence of two-dimensional cross-sectional images, or slices. Typically, the spacing between known slices is greater than the spacing between known points on a slice. Many visualization and image-analysis tasks, however, require the 3-D image to have equal sample spacing in all directions. To meet this requirement, one applies an interpolation technique to the known 3-D image to generate a new uniformly sampled 3-D image. The authors propose a nonlinear-filter-based approach to gray-scale interpolation of 3-D images. The method, referred to as column-fitting interpolation, is reminiscent of the maximum-homogeneity filter used for image enhancement. The authors also draw upon the paradigm of relaxation labeling to devise an improved column-fitting interpolator. Both methods are typically more effective than traditional gray-scale interpolation techniques.
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