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Image resolution in 4D-CT is a crucial bottleneck that needs to be overcome for improved dose planning in radiotherapy for lung cancer. In this paper, we propose a novel patch-based algorithm to enhance the image quality of 4D-CT data. Our premise is that anatomical information missing in one phase can be recovered from complementary information embedded in other phases. We employ a patch-based mechanism to propagate information across phases for reconstruction of intermediate slices in the axial direction, where resolution is normally the lowest. Specifically, structurally-matching and spatially-nearby patches are combined for reconstruction of each patch. For greater sensitivity to anatomical nuances, we further employ a quad-tree technique to adaptively partition each slice of the image in each phase for more fine-grained refinement. Our evaluation based on a public 4D-CT lung data indicates that our algorithm gives very promising results with significantly enhanced image structures.
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Zhang, Y. et al. (2012). Non-local Means Resolution Enhancement of Lung 4D-CT Data. In: Ayache, N., Delingette, H., Golland, P., Mori, K. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012. MICCAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33415-3_27
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