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Collimation is widely used for X-ray examinations to reduce the overall radiation exposure to the patient and improve the contrast resolution in the region of interest (ROI), that has been exposed directly to X-rays. It is desirable to detect the region of interest and exclude the unexposed area to optimize the image display. Although we only focus on the X-ray images generated with a rectangular collimator, it remains a challenging task because of the large variability of collimated images. In this study, we detect the region of interest as an optimal quadrilateral, which is the intersection of the optimal group of four half-planes. Each half-plane is defined as the positive side of a directed straight line. We develop an extended Hough transform for directed straight lines on a model-aware gray level edge-map, which is estimated with random forests [1] on features of pairs of superpixels. Experiments show that our algorithm can extract the region of interest quickly and accurately, despite variations in size, shape and orientation, and incompleteness of boundaries.
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Zhao, L., Peng, Z., Finkler, K., Jerebko, A., Corso, J.J., Zhou, X.(. (2015). Automatic Collimation Detection in Digital Radiographs with the Directed Hough Transform and Learning-Based Edge Detection. In: Wu, G., Coupé, P., Zhan, Y., Munsell, B., Rueckert, D. (eds) Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging. Patch-MI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9467. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28194-0_9
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