In optoacoustic tomography, detectors with relatively large areas are often employed to achieve high detection sensitivity. However, spatial-averaging effects over large detector areas may lead to attenuation of high acoustic frequencies and, subsequently, loss of fine features in the reconstructed image. Model-based reconstruction algorithms improve image resolution in such cases by correcting for the effect of the detector’s aperture on the detected signals. However, the incorporation of the detector’s geometry in the optoacoustic model leads to a significant increase of the model matrix memory cost, which hinders the application of inversion and analysis tools such as singular value decomposition (SVD). We demonstrate the use of the wavelet-packet framework for optoacoustic systems with finite-aperture detectors. The decomposition of the model matrix in the wavelet-packet domain leads to sufficiently smaller model matrices on which SVD may be applied. Using this methodology over an order of magnitude reduction in inversion time is demonstrated for numerically generated and experimental data. Additionally, our framework is demonstrated for the analysis of inversion stability and reveals a new, nonmonotonic dependency of the system condition number on the detector size. Thus, the proposed framework may assist in choosing the optimal detector size in future optoacoustic systems.
Model-based optoacoustic reconstruction can incorporate the shape of transducers. However, the accompanying memory cost will hinder it for high resolution performance. The propose method provides over an order of magnitude reduction in inversion time in experiments. Additionally, it also suits for the analysis of inversion stability.
An evaluation for objectively assessing the quality of visible and infrared color fusion image is proposed. On the basis of the consideration that human perception is most sensitive to color, sharpness, and contrast when assessing the quality of color image, we propose four objective metrics: image sharpness metric (ISM), image contrast metric (ICM), color colorfulness metric (CCM), and color naturalness metric (CNM). The ISM is evaluated by image gradient information. The ICM is defined based on both gray and color histogram characteristics. A color chroma metric, as well as a color variety metric based on a color difference gradient, is proposed, respectively, to define the CCM. The CNM is defined by measuring the color distribution's similarity between the fusion image and nature image, which are of the same scene. All the color attributions are computed in the CIELAB color space. Experimental results show that the proposed objective metrics are meaningful and effective on color fusion image evaluation because they correspond well to subjective evaluation.
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