Abstract
Computed tomography (CT) quality control (QC) is regularly performed with standard phantoms, to bar faulty equipment from medical use. Its accuracy may be improved by replacing qualitative methods based on good visual distinction with pixel value-based quantitative methods. We hypothesized that statistical texture analysis (TA) that covers the entire phantom image would be a more appropriate tool. Therefore, our study devised a novel QC method based on the TA for contrast resolution (CR) and spatial resolution (SR) and proposed new, quantitative CT QC criteria. TA of CR and SR images on an American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) CT Performance Phantom were performed with nine CT scanner models. Six texture descriptors derived from first-order statistics of grayscale image histograms were analyzed. Principal component analysis was used to reveal descriptors with high utility. For CR evaluation, contrast and softness were the most accurate descriptors. For SR evaluation, contrast, softness, and skewness were the most useful descriptors. We propose the following ranges: contrast for CR, 29.5 ± 15%, for SR, 29 ± 10%; softness for CR, <0.015, for SR, <0.014; and skewness for SR, >−1.85. Our novel TA method may improve the assessment of CR and SR of AAPM phantom images.
Funder
Eulji University
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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3 articles.
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