In Medical Imaging: Image Processing, M.H. Loew and K.M. Hanson, eds., Proc. SPIE 2710, pp. 156-166, 1996

Kinky tomographic reconstruction

Kenneth M. Hanson, Roger L. Bilisoly, and Gregory S. Cunningham
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

We address the issue of how to make decisions about the degree of smoothness demanded of a flexible contour used to model the boundary of a 2D object. We demonstrate the use of a Bayesian approach to set the strength of the smoothness prior for a tomographic reconstruction problem. The Akaike Information Criterion is used to determine whether to allow a kink in the contour.

Keywords: active contours, deformable geometry, Akaike Information Criterion, Bayesian analysis, model-order selection

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