The most accurate measurements are achieved with fixed photometers. They provide accurate and traceable measurements of the complete DICOM curve twice per second and over the full lifetime of the display. Displays used for medical imaging should comply with the DICOM GSDF standard, which defines an accepted range of grays and blacks for viewing critical details on medical displays.
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To perform a DICOM calibration of a display, the desired postcalibration minimum L min and maximum L max luminance values are first identified. Because the luminance output of the backlights decreases over time, it may be reasonable to expect that the calibrated maximum luminance intensity selected may adversely affect the life expectancy of a display.
The desired L max may be less than the maximum luminance that the device is capable of producing, L d max. Similarly, L min , corrected for ambient light effects, is often set to be larger than the black level of the display, L d min.
The minimum possible L d min value is determined by the ability of an LCD to block the backlight. Typical contrast ratios are in the range of to for color displays and up to or more for inherently grayscale displays. Commonly, L min is specified to be slightly higher than the minimum possible value. Most computers, video display driver cards, and displays are capable of 8-bit graphics.
Regardless of whether the display is color or grayscale, an 8-bit grayscale palette is typical. To characterize a display, luminance measurements can be converted to JND index values using Eq. For values greater than , the uncalibrated display has less contrast than the calibrated display.
As might be expected, the JND space of a calibrated display is linear. It is worth noting that calibrating displays to the GSDF with a similar luminance ratio can provide a similar image appearance on all displays, but this does not guarantee that the images necessarily look as desired. The overall appearance of digital medical images is dependent upon many variables including image acquisition parameters peak kilovoltage [kVp] and mAs in x-ray, for example , image processing, and the various linear and nonlinear grayscale transforms provided for by DICOM Part However, once a display is calibrated, ie its grayscale display function is set, any application-specific display function may be applied to the image data.
With the 8-bit-tobit calibration, the net result is that the overall contrast of the display has the visual appearance of being calibrated. The overall perceptual contrast of the display is as desired. However, adjacent input pixel values may have output DDLs that are exactly the same, resulting in no displayed contrast between adjacent input levels. Also, adjacent input values may have output DDLs that differ by more than 1 of and the displayed contrast between adjacent input levels is excessive.
This is also shown in Figure 6. Note that, for this example, the 8-bit-tobit conversion resulted in of a possible unique gray levels in the calibrated grayscale function. Given that 8-bit-tobit calibration generally results in loss of local contrast combined with excessive local contrast, it is generally not a satisfactory calibration method.
Calibration methods used for imaging grade displays recognize the limitations of the 8-bit-tobit scenario outlined above. Typically, the subpixels are set to an 8-bit value that varies by no more than 1 among the three. Used in this manner, independent addressing of the subpixels is referred to as bit stealing 8 or spatial dithering. Use of an expanded grayscale palette, achieved by addressing the subpixels independently, provides the foundation for a more effective grayscale calibration.
With the expanded palette, the output luminance can be made to more closely match the ideal luminance indicated by the GSDF. In contrast to the 8-bit palette, the same luminance value need not be used multiple times and the potential for very large and small contrast changes for adjacent DDLs is reduced.
This results in a calibrated display, which more closely approximates that of an ideal display, as shown in Figure 6. Along with spatial dithering, the use of temporal modulation or temporal dithering of subpixels has been implemented by some manufacturers to further refine the luminance difference between LUT palette entries.
Temporal dithering occurs at a rate that is imperceptible to the human eye. Temporal dithering over four or eight frames results in 3, or 6, values in the grayscale palette. These displays generally have a contrast ratio of approximately Therefore, L min could be specified as low as 0. Whereas the HVS can adapt to a large range of luminance levels, the luminance range of an adapted HVS is relatively limited. For this reason, it is preferable to calibrate a monitor such that the luminance ratio is in the range of to For the same luminance ratio, a color monitor thus has a lower L min , making them more susceptible to the adverse effects of ambient light.
It is important to note that GSDF calibration of different displays does not necessarily result in displays which are exactly perceptually matched. The GSDF ensures that the perceived contrast is consistent throughout the grayscale range of a given display, but calibrated displays that have substantially different maximum luminance values or contrast ratios will not provide an exact perceptual match.
For example, a brighter display will still look brighter after calibration and a higher contrast display will still have higher contrast. Because the luminance and contrast properties of medical imaging grade LCDs is not widely variable, GSDF calibration of these displays will ensure that an image presented on each display will have a similar appearance.
It might be considered that calibration based on initial measurement of the luminance at every palette LUT value provides the best grayscale calibration. For cathode ray tube CRT displays, luminance output is well behaved with driving level and most calibration software coarsely sampled the palette and interpolated the intervening values.
Therefore, the typical number of luminance measurement points used for CRT calibration is often in the range of 18 to Therefore, a display that was calibrated using measurements from the same 18 points would be expected to have a favorable TG18 luminance response evaluation. Therefore, the number of calibration points should be much larger than the number of points used for CRT devices, and preferably equal to the full size of the grayscale palette.
Similarly, calibration conformance should be checked for all drive levels. Postcalibration measurement of the grayscale response of a display can be used to assess the quality of the calibration. Detailed discussion of the methods used to assess calibrated display performance are available in the literature.
Typically, the luminance for a select number of DDL values is measured. A comprehensive assessment of display grayscale calibration involves measuring the luminance for each of the DDL values. For a small sample of displays, this may be done using a quality photometer and manual recording of the data. Preferably, this can be done by using a photometer that interfaces directly to a computer. Characterization of calibrated displays via measurement of all steps in the DDL range provides an overall assessment of the grayscale response.
Of course, assessment of the macro-grayscale conformance does not require measurement at all DDL values. The additional value of measuring the luminance at each of the DDL values is characterization of the micro-grayscale response. Discrepancy between the ideal GSDF and the actual micro-grayscale response can be considered an assessment of the contribution of an imperfect grayscale calibration to the noise of the displayed image.
Figure 7 shows the macro- and micro-grayscale response of a calibrated grayscale display. As shown in Figure 7 , the macro-grayscale measurements do not provide a good indication of the precision of the micro-grayscale response.
Note that calibration noise should be considered in a relative comparison to other sources of noise in the medical image acquisition and display chain. There are many possible mechanisms to store and utilize calibration data. Only an introduction to these mechanisms is provided here.
Depending upon implementation, the calibration look-up table may be stored on a host PC as an International Color Consortium. The computer operating system, in combination with the video card, can modify the DDL values sent to the display via the. As a general rule, the. The calibration data may also be stored in firmware of the LCD. In general, this type of implementation has the limitation that it can be applied only to a DVI input signal, but has the advantage that the calibration is immediately available if the display is moved to another PC with a DVI output channel.
Certainly, other vendor-specific solutions to calibration storage and portability exist. Also, note that many imaging grade displays have other calibrated display function settings in addition to the GSDF setting such as log-linear or CIELab , which are provided by the manufacturer and delivered as part of a new display.
Not surprisingly, grayscale calibration was originally performed on inherently grayscale displays. Grayscale calibration of color LCDs for medical image display is a relatively new practice.
Color displays have an inherent advantage for displaying radiographic images that contain color, such as nuclear medicine, Doppler ultrasound, and functional magnetic resonance images.
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