Organ motion detection in CT images using opposite rays in fan-beam projection systems
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Motion artifacts have been identified as a problem in medical tomography systems. While computed tomography (CT) imaging has been getting faster, there remains a need to detect and compensate for motions in clinical follow-up of neurological patients (multiple sclerosis, tumors, stroke, etc.), in cardiac imaging, and in any area in which failing to detect a motion artifact may lead to misdiagnosis. We have developed a novel algorithm to detect motion in brain images. The algorithm deals with detecting and isolating motion in the object domain using only the information available in the sinogram domain. The new "opposite ray algorithm" (ORA) addresses the issue of motion in the interior elements of the object. The ORA combines information from projections that are opposite in space and separated in time to isolate and identify the motion. A sinogram of motion is created, integrated and reconstructed to isolate the moving component. The algorithm can be used with conventional clinical scanners employing quarter-detector offset. The significant effect of quarter-detector offset on the ORA is investigated. The effects that a finite beamwidth and noise have on the ORA are also investigated. Both the similarity index and a correlation coefficient are used to evaluate the algorithm. The algorithm is successful when applied to cases exhibiting translational and translational-rotational motion. A similarity index of 0.88 is obtained in a typical case with both translational and rotational motion. Further development is recommended in the deformation case.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".