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Autori principali: Pastrello, Luca, Cecchin, Diego, Santin, Gabriele, Marchetti, Francesco
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06692
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author Pastrello, Luca
Cecchin, Diego
Santin, Gabriele
Marchetti, Francesco
author_facet Pastrello, Luca
Cecchin, Diego
Santin, Gabriele
Marchetti, Francesco
contents In Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), the image reconstruction process involves many tunable parameters that have a significant impact on the quality of the resulting clinical images. Traditional image quality evaluation often relies on expert judgment and full-reference metrics such as MSE and SSIM. However, these approaches are limited by their subjectivity or the need for a ground-truth image. In this paper, we investigate the usage of a no-reference image quality assessment method tailored for SPECT imaging, employing the Perception-based Image QUality Evaluator (PIQUE) score. Precisely, we propose a novel application of PIQUE in evaluating SPECT images reconstructed via filtered backprojection using a parameter-dependent Butterworth filter. For the optimization of filter's parameters, we adopt a kernel-based Bayesian optimization framework grounded in reproducing kernel Hilbert space theory, highlighting the connections to recent greedy approximation techniques. Experimental results in a concrete clinical setting for SPECT imaging show the potential of this optimization approach for an objective and quantitative assessment of image quality, without requiring a reference image.
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spellingShingle Tuning Butterworth filter's parameters in SPECT reconstructions via kernel-based Bayesian optimization with a no-reference image evaluation metric
Pastrello, Luca
Cecchin, Diego
Santin, Gabriele
Marchetti, Francesco
Numerical Analysis
In Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), the image reconstruction process involves many tunable parameters that have a significant impact on the quality of the resulting clinical images. Traditional image quality evaluation often relies on expert judgment and full-reference metrics such as MSE and SSIM. However, these approaches are limited by their subjectivity or the need for a ground-truth image. In this paper, we investigate the usage of a no-reference image quality assessment method tailored for SPECT imaging, employing the Perception-based Image QUality Evaluator (PIQUE) score. Precisely, we propose a novel application of PIQUE in evaluating SPECT images reconstructed via filtered backprojection using a parameter-dependent Butterworth filter. For the optimization of filter's parameters, we adopt a kernel-based Bayesian optimization framework grounded in reproducing kernel Hilbert space theory, highlighting the connections to recent greedy approximation techniques. Experimental results in a concrete clinical setting for SPECT imaging show the potential of this optimization approach for an objective and quantitative assessment of image quality, without requiring a reference image.
title Tuning Butterworth filter's parameters in SPECT reconstructions via kernel-based Bayesian optimization with a no-reference image evaluation metric
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06692