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ENH: Add option to compute the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound. #620

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Add option to obtain the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) when computing the photon counts using rtkSpectralForwardModelImageFilter. The CRLB corresponds to the lower bound of the variance of any unbiased estimator. Therefore, it could be used to estimate the variance that would be obtained after material decomposition.

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if (m_IsSpectralCT)
{
rtk::ProjectionsDecompositionNegativeLogLikelihood::MeasuredDataType photon_counts;
photon_counts.SetSize(forward.size());
photon_counts.SetData(forward.data_block());
cost->SetMeasuredData(photon_counts);
cost->ComputeFischerMatrix(in);
output1It.Set(cost->GetCramerRaoLowerBound());
}
else
{
output1It.Set(
itk::VariableLengthVector<double>(cost->GetVariances(in).data_block(), this->m_NumberOfSpectralBins));
}
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I'm not sure I understand this, it seems to disable the previous mode which was already for m_IsSpectralCT true. Was the behavior different before?

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The function GetVariances was not implemented for spectral CT. It was only returning meaningless results (see here). Furthermore, it was no possible to set the boolean m_ComputeVariances to true with the rtkspectralforwardmodel application.

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Ok... Do you understand what it does for dual energy?
https://github.com/RTKConsortium/RTK/blob/master/include/rtkDualEnergyNegativeLogLikelihood.h#L126
I have a hard time understanding this code and the commit message does not help

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If I understood well, it is mentioned here that the variance of the integrated energy is assumed to be equal to the mean. Then, the function GetVariances is computing this:

$$\int_0^\infty E S_{eff}(E)exp(-\sum_{\alpha=1}^{M=2} f_\alpha A_\alpha)dE$$

which correspond to the mean signal measured by an energy integrating detector.
(This is my understanding but I'm not sure I'm right.)

Add option to obtain the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) when computing the
photon counts using rtkSpectralForwardModelImageFilter. The CRLB
corresponds to the lower bound of the variance of any unbiased
estimator. Therefore, it could be used to estimate the variance that
would be obtained after material decomposition.
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The last force-pushed improve the way the computation of the Cramer-Rao lower bound was implemented and add the computation of the variance also for spectral CT.

@SimonRit SimonRit merged commit 526ca7c into RTKConsortium:master Sep 30, 2024
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