Patient‐specific quantification of image quality: An automated technique for measuring the distribution of organ Hounsfield units in clinical chest <scp>CT</scp> images

Abstract

Patient-specific organ HUs can be measured from clinical datasets. The algorithm that was developed can be run on both contrast-enhanced and non-contrast-enhanced clinical datasets. The method can be applied to automatically extract image HU-contrast characteristics of clinical CT images, not captured in phantom data, whereby enabling quantification and optimization of image quality and contrast administration.