Image Reconstruction using the Benford Law

It has been claimed that the first digit of real signals follows a logarithmic distribution, called Benford law. This paper shows that this distribution is a natural prior for the gradient of several types of medical images (MRI, CT, ultrasound) and proposes a reconstruction algorithm based on the Benford law which does not require any parameter tuning. Experimental results are presented to illustrate the performance of the reconstruction algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: João M. Sanches, Jorge S. Marques
• Keywords: Benford Law, ICIP 2006, Image Processing, Logarithmic Distribution, Reconstruction Algorithm