Despite recent advances, radiographic image segmentation remains a challenging task. This is especially true if the acquired images are degraded by artifact or distracting underlying pathology, conditions under which many state-of-the-art algorithms will fail but which are common in clinical practice. We hypothesize that a deep learning algorithm can be trained for accurate segmentation even in...

introduction in radiography, dose and image quality are dependent on radiographic parameters. the problem is caused from incorrect use of radiography equipment and from the radiation exposure to patients much more than required. therefore, the aim of this study was to implement a quality-control program to detect changes in exposure parameters, which may affect diagnosis or patient radiation do...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the image quality of four direct digital radiographic systems. Radiographs were made of the maxillary central incisor and mandibular left molar regions of a dry skull, and an aluminum step-wedge. The X-ray generator operated at 10 mA. 60 and 70 kVp, and images were acquired with 3, 5, 8, 12, 24 and 48 exposure pulses. Six well-trained observers class...

Several different image processing methods are described and discussed. Their applicability to the processing of images from digital radiography equipment is compared. The overall conclusion is that advanced image enhancement methods are beneficial and can improve detectability of flaws in digital radiography images, but that these enhancement methods have to be used carefully, especially in ca...

Introduction In radiography, dose and image quality are dependent on radiographic parameters. The problem is caused from incorrect use of radiography equipment and from the radiation exposure to patients much more than required. Therefore, the aim of this study was to implement a quality-control program to detect changes in exposure parameters, which may affect diagnosis or patient radiation do...

Digital radiographic imaging systems, such as those using photostimulable storage phosphor, amorphous selenium, amorphous silicon, CCD, and MOSFET technology, can produce adequate image quality over a much broader range of exposure levels than that of screen/film imaging systems. In screen/film imaging, the final image brightness and contrast are indicative of over- and underexposure. In digita...

The contrast enhancement technique used manipulates the DCT coefficients of a JPEG image to improve its quality. It is carried out in the decompression stage so that the compressibility of the image is not affected. Since DCT and its inverse transform IDCT are performed on 8 x 8 blocks of pixels, any image processing algorithm implemented in the transform domain produces flaws known as blocking...