Research Article

An Overview of the Topological Gradient Approach in Image Processing: Advantages and Inconveniences

Table 1

Comparison between several reconstruction methods, quantified by several ratios and similarity indexes, for a noisy sinogram with .

MethodPSNRSNRSSIMMSE

FBP14.5933.00.410.0342
FBP + Hamming15.9131.710.520.0273
Topological gradient (TV)22.4333.750.820.0042
Topological gradient ( )26.1834.010.940.0023