A Fuzzy Sharpness Metric for Magnetic Resonance Images

Abstract A fuzzy-based sharpness metric for the objective measurement of sharpness of Magnetic Resonance (MR) images is proposed in this paper. In the proposed metric, Quadratic Index of fuzziness (QIF) is used to quantitatively express image sharpness. The proposed metric is found to be superior to Maximum Local Variation (MLV) metric, Perceptual Sharpness Index (PSI), Second order Derivative based Measure of Enhancement (SDME), Blanchet’s Sharpness Index (BSI) and Roffet’s Blur Metric (RBM) in terms of correlation with subjective quality ratings and computational time.

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