An in-Field Calibrating Method for the Bilateral Filter Applied to X-ray Flat Panel Grayscale Images with High Spectral Resolution

Fabiana Oliveira Paixão Fernandes, Cássio Alves Carneiro, Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel, Zélia Myriam Assis Peixoto, Flávia Magalhães Freitas Ferreira

2013

Abstract

Several spatial filters applied to images are available in technical and scientific literature. Besides the reduction of the noise level, some of them also aim at the preservation of edges and details. Those filters are commonly applied to the processing of X-ray medical image sequences, which are usually noised due to the low doses of radiation suitable for medical procedures but where the loss of any detail may impair a diagnosis. In this context, the bilateral filter is well suited. However, an adequate calibration of the bilateral filter is required for reaching the best cost benefit between reducing the noise level and preserving the image edges. Calibration procedures are still underexplored in the literature thereby, this paper proposes a new method that allows in-field calibration of the bilateral filter embedded into a piece of equipment for angiography, which uses a flat panel X-ray detector. The proposed method can be applied to images with any spectral resolution and surpasses the performance of the calibration method presented in the literature.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Oliveira Paixão Fernandes F., Alves Carneiro C., Iakovlevitch Ekel P., Assis Peixoto Z. and Magalhães Freitas Ferreira F. (2013). An in-Field Calibrating Method for the Bilateral Filter Applied to X-ray Flat Panel Grayscale Images with High Spectral Resolution . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-43-3, pages 163-168. DOI: 10.5220/0004315201630168

in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs13,
author={Fabiana Oliveira Paixão Fernandes and Cássio Alves Carneiro and Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel and Zélia Myriam Assis Peixoto and Flávia Magalhães Freitas Ferreira},
title={An in-Field Calibrating Method for the Bilateral Filter Applied to X-ray Flat Panel Grayscale Images with High Spectral Resolution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2013},
pages={163-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004315201630168},
isbn={978-989-8565-43-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - An in-Field Calibrating Method for the Bilateral Filter Applied to X-ray Flat Panel Grayscale Images with High Spectral Resolution
SN - 978-989-8565-43-3
AU - Oliveira Paixão Fernandes F.
AU - Alves Carneiro C.
AU - Iakovlevitch Ekel P.
AU - Assis Peixoto Z.
AU - Magalhães Freitas Ferreira F.
PY - 2013
SP - 163
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0004315201630168