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Low-dose CT lung images denoising based on multiscale parallel convolution neural network
- Source :
- The Visual Computer. 37:2419-2431
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- The continuous development and wide application of CT in medical practice have raised public concern over the associated radiation dose to the patient. However, reducing the radiation dose may result in increasing the noise and artifacts, which may adversely interfere with the judgment and belief of radiologists. Therefore, we propose a low-dose CT denoising model based on multiscale parallel convolution neural network to improve the visual effect. Residual learning is utilized to reduce the difficulty of network learning, and batch normalization is adopted to solve the problem of performance degradation due to the increase in neural network layers. Specifically, we introduce the dilated convolution to expand the receptive field by inserting weights of zero in the standard convolution kernel, while not increasing the extra parameters. Furthermore, the multiscale parallel method is utilized to extract multiscale detail features from lung images. Compared to the traditional methods such as Wiener filter, NLM, and models based on CNN, e.g., SCNN, DnCNN, our extensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model (CT-ReCNN) can not only reduce the LDCT lung images noise level, but also retain more exact information as well.
- Subjects :
- Artificial neural network
business.industry
Computer science
Noise reduction
Physics::Medical Physics
Wiener filter
Normalization (image processing)
020207 software engineering
Pattern recognition
02 engineering and technology
Residual
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Convolutional neural network
Computer graphics
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0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
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Low dose ct
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial intelligence
business
Software
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- ISSN :
- 14322315 and 01782789
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Visual Computer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........765edfe6c47e9609e86ddaa0e45ca39a