New family of generalized metrics for comparative imaging system evaluation

M Russ; V. Singh; B. Loughran; D. R. Bednarek; S. Rudin

doi:10.1117/12.2082014

18 March 2015 New family of generalized metrics for comparative imaging system evaluation

M Russ, V. Singh, B. Loughran, D. R. Bednarek, S. Rudin

Proceedings Volume 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging; 94121C (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082014
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A family of imaging task-specific metrics designated Relative Object Detectability (ROD) metrics was developed to enable objective, quantitative comparisons of different x-ray systems. Previously, ROD was defined as the integral over spatial frequencies of the Fourier Transform of the object function, weighted by the detector DQE for one detector, divided by the comparable integral for another detector. When effects of scatter and focal spot unsharpness are included, the generalized metric, GDQE, is substituted for the DQE, resulting in the G-ROD metric. The G-ROD was calculated for two different detectors with two focal spot sizes using various-sized simulated objects to quantify the improved performance of new high-resolution CMOS detector systems. When a measured image is used as the object, a Generalized Measured Relative Object Detectability (GM-ROD) value can be generated. A neuro-vascular stent (Wingspan) was imaged with the high-resolution Micro-Angiographic Fluoroscope (MAF) and a standard flat panel detector (FPD) for comparison using the GM-ROD calculation. As the lower integration bound increased from 0 toward the detector Nyquist frequency, increasingly superior performance of the MAF was evidenced. Another new metric, the R-ROD, enables comparing detectors to a reference detector of given imaging ability. R-RODs for the MAF, a new CMOS detector and an FPD will be presented. The ROD family of metrics can provide quantitative more understandable comparisons for different systems where the detector, focal spot, scatter, object, techniques or dose are varied and can be used to optimize system selection for given imaging tasks.

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M Russ, V. Singh, B. Loughran, D. R. Bednarek, and S. Rudin "New family of generalized metrics for comparative imaging system evaluation", Proc. SPIE 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging, 94121C (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082014

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