System and method for image reconstruction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10049449-B2
Application number	US-201615225915-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2016
Priority date	Sep 21, 2015
Publication date	Aug 14, 2018
Grant date	Aug 14, 2018

Abstract

A system and method relating to image processing are provided. The method may include the following operations. First data at a first bed position and second data at a second bed position may be received. The first bed position and the second bed position may have an overlapping region. A first image and a second image may be reconstructed based on the first data and the second data, respectively. Third data and fourth data corresponding to the overlapping region may be extracted from the first data and the second data, respectively. Merged data may be generated by merging the third data and the fourth data. A third image may be reconstructed based on the merged data. A fourth image may be generated through image composition based on the first image, the second image, and the third image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for image processing, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving first data of an object acquired at a first bed position and second data of the object acquired at a second bed position, the first bed position and the second bed position having an overlapping region corresponding to an overlapping portion of the object,
reconstructing a first image based on the first data;
reconstructing a second image based on the second data, wherein an overlapping ratio of the overlapping region with respect to the first image or the second image is from 0 to 1;
extracting third data corresponding to the overlapping region from the first data, wherein the third data correspond to the overlapping portion of the object;
extracting fourth data corresponding to the overlapping region from the second data, wherein the fourth data correspond to the overlapping portion of the object;
merging the third data and the fourth data to generate merged data corresponding to the overlapping portion of the object;
reconstructing a third image corresponding to the overlapping portion of the object based on the merged data; and
generating a fourth image through image composition based on the first image, the second image, and the third image, wherein a portion of the fourth image corresponding to the overlapping region is generated by performing weighted composition based on a first weight coefficient for the first image, a second weight coefficient for the second image, and a third weight coefficient for the third image.

2. The system of claim 1 , the generating a fourth image comprising weighted composition based on a first weight coefficient for the first image, a second weight coefficient for the second image, and a third weight coefficient for the third image.

3. The system of claim 1 , a sum of the first weight coefficient, the second weight coefficient, and the third weight coefficient being a fixed value.

4. The system of claim 1 , the first data, the second data, the third data, and the fourth data being saved in a sinogram mode or a listmode.

5. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising correcting the first data, the second data, or the merged data.

6. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising arranging the merged data based on angle or time.

7. The system of claim 1 , the system being a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system.

8. A system for processing data acquired by a Positron Emission Tomography (PET), the system comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
a) obtaining image data relating to a plurality of original pixels in a first coordinate system;
b) obtaining a lookup table specifying a correlation between the first coordinate system and a second coordinate system;
c) for each of a plurality of target pixels, calculating a value of the target pixel in the second coordinate system based on the lookup table and the image data relating to one or more of the plurality of original pixels in the first coordinate system; and
d) generating a target image in the second coordinate system based on the values of the plurality of target pixels, wherein the first coordinate system includes at least two coordinate axes, a value in a first coordinate axis of the first coordinate system indicates a distance from a line of response to a center of a PET ring of the PET system, and a value in a second coordinate axis of the first coordinate system indicates an angle between a line of response and a horizontal plane or between a line of response and a vertical plane in space, and the second coordinate system includes at least two coordinate axes perpendicular to each other in space.

9. The system of claim 8 , each entry in the lookup table comprising an integer part and a decimal part.

10. The system of claim 9 , the integer part of the entry in the lookup table comprising an index of original pixel relating to the left boundary of a target pixel.

11. The system of claim 9 , the decimal part of the entry in the lookup table comprising a ratio of a first term to a second term, the first term relating to the position of a target pixel relative to the position of a corresponding original pixel, and the second term relating to the pixel size of the corresponding original pixel.

12. The system of claim 8 , the operations further comprising calculating a count sum, wherein the count sum being a sum of a count of a pixel and counts of all pixels before the pixel in the first coordinate system; and wherein each count being a product of a pixel value and a size of the original pixel.

13. The system of claim 12 , calculating a value of the target pixel in the second coordinate system based on the lookup table and the image data relating to one or more of the plurality of original pixels in the first coordinate system further comprising based on the count sum.

14. The system of claim 8 , the first coordinate system being multi-dimensional, the operations further comprising performing b) and c) for each dimension of the first coordinate system.

15. A method for image processing, the method comprising:
receiving first data of an object acquired at a first bed position and second data of the object acquired at a second bed position, the first bed position and the second bed position having an overlapping region corresponding to an overlapping portion of the object;
reconstructing a first image based on the first data;
reconstructing a second image based on the second data, wherein an overlapping ratio of the overlapping region with respect to the first image or the second image is from 0 to 1;
extracting third data corresponding to the overlapping region from the first data, wherein the third data correspond to the overlapping portion of the object;
extracting fourth data corresponding to the overlapping region from the second data, wherein the fourth data correspond to the overlapping portion of the object;
merging the third data and the fourth data to generate merged data corresponding to the overlapping portion of the object;
reconstructing a third image based on the merged data corresponding to the overlapping portion of the object; and
generating a fourth image through image composition based on the first image, the second image, and the third image, wherein a portion of the fourth image corresponding to the overlapping region is generated by performing weighted composition based on a first weight coefficient for the first image, a second weight coefficient for the second image, and a third weight coefficient for the third image.

16. The method of claim 15 , the generating a fourth image comprising weighted composition based on a first weight coefficient for the first image, a second weight coefficient for the second image, and a third weight coefficient for the third image.

17. The method of claim 15 , a sum of the first weight coefficient, the second weight coefficient, and the third weight coefficient being a fixed value.

18. The method of claim 15 , the first data, the second data, the third data, and the fourth data being saved in a sinogram mode or a listmode.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising correcting the first data, the second data, or the merged data.

Assignees

• Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lyu Yang

Classifications

• G06T7/0012 Primary

  Biomedical image inspection · CPC title

• G06T12/00

  Tomographic reconstruction from projections · CPC title

• G06T12/20 Primary

  Inverse problem, i.e. transformations from projection space into object space · CPC title

• G06T7/11

  Region-based segmentation · CPC title

• G06T2207/20112

  Image segmentation details · CPC title