Image Processing

The PDART Algorithm, Part 1

Figure 1. Phantom image (left) and SIRT reconstruction (right).

This article is a bit of an experiment. In it, I’ll try to explain PDART, an example of current algorithm research in computed tomography (PDART was published in 2011). What the algorithm does is, in a nutshell, a SIRT reconstruction with intermediate…

Tom Mon, 08/11/2014 - 09:14

Gaussian Noise is Added, Poisson Noise is Applied

Poisson and Gaussian noise, pixel values 0 to 5

There is a fundamental difference between adding Gaussian noise and applying Poisson noise. In practice, people often talk about adding Poisson noise anyway, but this is not accurate. I will be looking at this from the image processing perspective in this article, and I’ll show purely visual examples. An application of this could be…

Submitted on 11 January 2014