%0 Journal Article %J Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization %D 2015 %T Discrete tomographic reconstruction via adaptive weighting of gradient descents %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %X

Discrete tomography (DT) is a set of tools for reconstructing the inner structure of objects consisting of only few different homogeneous materials. We propose a new method for multivalued DT, which performs the reconstruction as an energy minimisation task. For this algorithm, we define an energy function that can mathematically formulate the reconstruction task, and design a novel optimisation process for approximating the minima of this energy function. We validate the algorithm by comparing its performance with other cutting-edge reconstruction algorithms from the literature. We show that our method can compete with the currently used reconstruction techniques and under certain circumstances (e.g. with a low number of projections, or when the projection data are affected by random noise) it can even outperform them.

%B Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization %I Taylor&Francis %V 3 %P 101-109 %8 Feb 2014 %G eng %N 2 %9 Journal article %& 101 %R DOI: 10.1080/21681163.2013.853624 %0 Conference Paper %B A XXVIII. Neumann Kollokvium konferencia-kiadványa %D 2015 %T Időskori makula degeneráció kvantitatív jellemzése SD-OCT képek automatikus elemzésével %A László Gábor Varga %A Melinda Katona %A Tamás Grósz %A József Dombi %A Attila Kovács %A Rózsa Dégi %A László G Nyúl %B A XXVIII. Neumann Kollokvium konferencia-kiadványa %I Neumann János Számítógép-tudományi Társaság %C Veszprém, Hungary %P 43-48. %8 Nov 2015 %9 Conference paper %0 Book Section %B Informatika a felsőoktatásban 2014 %D 2014 %T Képfeldolgozás a szegedi informatikus-képzésben %A Péter Balázs %A Endre Katona %A Zoltan Kato %A Antal Nagy %A Gábor Németh %A László Gábor Nyúl %A Kálmán Palágyi %A Attila Tanacs %A László Gábor Varga %E Roland Kunkli %E Ildikó Papp %E Edéné Rutkovszky %B Informatika a felsőoktatásban 2014 %I University of Debrecen %C Debrecen, Hungary %P 667-675 %8 2014 %G hun %9 Conference paper %0 Journal Article %J COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING %D 2014 %T Local and global uncertainty in binary tomographic reconstruction %A László Gábor Varga %A László Gábor Nyúl %A Antal Nagy %A Péter Balázs %X

In binary tomography the goal is to reconstruct the innerstructure of homogeneous objects from their projections. This is usually required from a low number of projections, which are also likely to be affected by noise and measurement errors. In general, the distorted and incomplete projection data holds insufficient information for the correct reconstruction of the original object. In this paper, we describe two methods for approximating the local uncertainty of the reconstructions, i.e., identifying how the information stored in the projections determine each part of the reconstructed image. These methods can measure the uncertainty of the reconstruction without any knowledge from the original object itself. Moreover, we provide a global uncertainty measure that can assess the information content of a projection set and predict the error to be expected in the reconstruction of a homogeneous object. We also give an experimental evaluation of our proposed methods, mention some of their possible applications, and describe how the uncertainty measure can be used to improve the performance of the DART reconstruction algorithm.

%B COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING %8 2014 %@ 1077-3142 %G eng %9 Journal article %! COMPUT VIS IMAGE UND %R 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.05.006 %0 Conference Paper %B A Képfeldolgozók és Alakfelismerők Társaságának konferenciája - KÉPAF 2013 %D 2013 %T Gradiens módszerek automatikus súlyozásán alapuló diszkrét tomográfiai eljárás %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %E László Czúni %B A Képfeldolgozók és Alakfelismerők Társaságának konferenciája - KÉPAF 2013 %I NJSZT-KÉPAF %C Veszprém %P 210 - 223 %8 Jan 2013 %G eng %9 Conference paper %0 Book Section %B Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPPRA 2013) %D 2013 %T Local uncertainty in binary tomographic reconstruction %A László Gábor Varga %A László Gábor Nyúl %A Antal Nagy %A Péter Balázs %E Martin Kampel %X

We describe a new approach for the uncertainty problem arisingin the field of discrete tomography, when the low number of projections does not hold enough information for an accurate, and reliable reconstruction. In this case the lack of information results in uncertain parts on the reconstructed image which are not determined by the projections and cannot be reliably reconstructed without additional information. We provide a method that can approximate this local uncertainty of reconstructions, and show how each pixel of the reconstructed image is determined by a set of given projections. We also give experimental results for validating our approach.

%B Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPPRA 2013) %I IASTED - Acta Press %C Calgary %P 490 - 496 %8 Feb 2013 %G eng %9 Conference paper %R 10.2316/P.2013.798-067 %0 Book Section %B Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications III %D 2012 %T An energy minimization reconstruction algorithm for multivalued discrete tomography %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %E Paolo Di Giamberardino %E Daniela Iacoviello %E Renato M Natal Jorge %E Joao Manuel R S Taveres %X

We propose a new algorithm for multivalued discrete tomography, that reconstructs images from few projections by approximating the minimum of a suitably constructed energy function with a deterministic optimization method. We also compare the proposed algorithm to other reconstruction techniques on software phantom images, in order to prove its applicability.

%B Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications III %I CRC Press - Taylor and Frances Group %C London %P 179 - 185 %8 2012 %G eng %9 Conference paper %R 10.1201/b12753-1 %0 Generic %D 2012 %T A novel optimization-based reconstruction algorithm for multivalued discrete tomography %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %B Conference of PhD students in computer science. Volume of extended abstracts. %I University of Szeged, Institute of Informatics %C Szeged %P 57 %8 June 2012 %G eng %9 Abstract %0 Conference Paper %B Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms (Vocal) %D 2012 %T An optimization-based reconstruction algorithm for multivalued discrete tomography %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %B Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms (Vocal) %I University of Pannonia %C Veszprém %P 39 - 40 %8 Dec 2012 %G eng %9 Conference paper %0 Journal Article %J GRAPHICAL MODELS %D 2011 %T Direction-dependency of binary tomographic reconstruction algorithms %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %X

In this work we study the relation between the quality of a binary tomographic reconstruction and the choice of angles of the projections. We conduct experiments on a set of software phantoms by reconstructing them from different projection sets using three different discrete tomography reconstruction algorithms, and compare the accuracy of the corresponding reconstructions with suitable approaches. To validate our results for possible real-world applications, we conduct the experiments by adding random noise of different characteristics to the simulated projection data, and by applying small topological changes on the phantom images as well. In addition, we also discuss some consequences of the angle-selection dependency and possible practical applications arising from the field of non-destructive testing, too.

%B GRAPHICAL MODELS %V 73 %P 365 - 375 %8 Nov 2011 %@ 1524-0703 %G eng %N 6 %9 Journal article %! GRAPH MODELS %R 10.1016/j.gmod.2011.06.006 %0 Journal Article %J ACTA CYBERNETICA-SZEGED %D 2011 %T Projection selection dependency in binary tomography %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %X

It has already been shown that the choice of projection angles can significantly influence the quality of reconstructions in discrete tomography. In this contribution we summarize and extend the previous results by explaining and demonstrating tile effects of projection selection dependency, in a set of experimental software tests. We perform reconstructions of software phantoms, by using different binary tomography reconstruction algorithms, from different equiangular and non-equiangular projections sets, under various conditions (i.e., when the objects to be reconstructed undergo slight topological changes, or the projection data is affected by noise) and compare the results with suitable approaches. Based on our observations, we reveal regularities in the resulting data and discuss possible consequences of such projection selection dependency in binary tomography.

 

%B ACTA CYBERNETICA-SZEGED %I University of Szeged, Institute of Informatics %C Szeged %V 20 %P 167 - 187 %8 2011 %@ 0324-721X %G eng %N 1 %9 Journal article %! ACTA CYBERN-SZEGED %0 Conference Paper %B A Képfeldolgozók és Alakfelismerők Társaságának konferenciája - KÉPAF 2011 %D 2011 %T Vetületi irányfüggőség a bináris tomográfiában %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %E Zoltan Kato %E Kálmán Palágyi %B A Képfeldolgozók és Alakfelismerők Társaságának konferenciája - KÉPAF 2011 %I NJSZT %C Szeged %P 92 - 105 %8 Jan 2011 %G hun %9 Conference paper %0 Book Section %B Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images %D 2010 %T Direction-dependency of a binary tomographic reconstruction algorithm %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %E Reneta P Barneva %E Valentin E Brimkov %E Herbert A Hauptman %E Renato M Natal Jorge %E João Manuel R S Tavares %X

We study how the quality of an image reconstructed by a binary tomographic algorithm depends on the direction of the observed object in the scanner, if only a few projections are available. To do so we conduct experiments on a set of software phantoms by reconstructing them form different projection sets using an algorithm based on D.C. programming (a method for minimizing the difference of convex functions), and compare the accuracy of the corresponding reconstructions by two suitable approaches. Based on the experiments, we discuss consequences on applications arising from the field of non-destructive testing, as well.

 

%B Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %I Springer Verlag %C Buffalo, NY, USA %P 242 - 253 %8 May 2010 %@ 978-3-642-12711-3 %G eng %9 Conference paper %! LNCS %R 10.1007/978-3-642-12712-0_22 %0 Conference Paper %B Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science. Volume of Extended Abstracts %D 2010 %T Object rotation effects on binary tomographic reconstruction %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %B Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science. Volume of Extended Abstracts %I University of Szeged %C Szeged, Hungary %P 76 %8 June 2010 %G eng %9 Abstract %0 Book Section %B Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems %D 2010 %T Projection selection algorithms for discrete tomography %A László Gábor Varga %A Péter Balázs %A Antal Nagy %E Jacques Blanc-Talon %E Don Bone %E Wilfried Philips %E Dan Popescu %E Paul Scheunders %B Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems %I Springer Verlag %C Sydney, Australia %P 390 - 401 %8 Dec 2010 %G eng %9 Conference paper