Binary Tomography Using Variants of Local Binary Patterns as Texture Priors

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for binary image reconstruction from few projections. The binary reconstruction problem can be highly underdetermined and one way to reduce the search space of feasible solutions is to exploit some prior knowledge of the image to be reconstructed. We use texture information extracted from sample image patches as prior knowledge. Experimental results show that this approach can retain the structure of the image even if just a very few number of projections are used for the reconstruction.