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A Simple Filtering Routine for Radionuclide Bone Images

Department of Bio-Medical Physics and Bio-Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Mr. P. G. B. Ross, Dept. of Bio-Medical Physics & Bio-Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Aberdeen, AB9 2ZD.

ABSTRACT

The evaluation is carried out of a simple filtering routine for improving the detectability of low contrast lesions in bone scans. With this routine, the unprocessed image is displayed together with three filtered versions, the final decision on the presence of abnormalities being made by comparing the four images. Emphasis is placed on producing a routine which is quick in implementation and, therefore, only small filter arrays are used. Using a routine consisting of a low-pass, a median, and a differential filter, 73% more lesions are detected when the filtered images are also used. The whole routine takes less than 1 min to run.