[A Denoising Method for Low-dose Small-animal Computed Tomography Image Based on Globe Dictionary Learning].

Journal: Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
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Abstract

Considering the survival rate of small animals and the continuity of the experiments,high-dose X-ray shooting process is not suitable for the small animals in computed tomography(CT)experiments.But the low-dose process results with images might be polluted by noises which are not conducive for the experiments.In order to solve this problem,we in this paper introduce a global dictionary learning based denoising method to apply the promotion of the low dose CT image.We at first adopted the K-means singular value decomposition(K-SVD)algorithm to train a global dictionary based on the high dose CT image.Then,the noise image could be decomposed into sparse component which was free from noise through the orthogonal matching pursuit(OMP)algorithm.Finally,the noisefree image could be achieved by reconstructing the image only with its sparse components.The experiments results showed that the method we proposed here could decrease the noise efficiently and remain the details,and it would help promote the low dose image quality and increase the survival rate of the small animals.

Authors

  • Zhongyuan Li
  • Guang Li
    Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
  • Yi Sun
    Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
  • Gong Cheng
    College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
  • Shouhua Luo