Content-Noise Feature Fusion Neural Network for Image Denoising in Magnetic Particle Imaging.

Journal: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
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Abstract

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a tomographic imaging method that quantitatively determines the distribution of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs). However, the performance of MPI is primarily limited by the noise in the receive coil and electronic devices, which causes quantification errors for MPI images. Existing methods cannot efficiently eliminate noise while preserve structural details in MPI images. To address this problem, we propose a Content-Noise Feature Fusion Neural Network equipped with tailored modules of noise learning and content learning. It can simultaneously learn content and noise features of raw MPI images. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on structural details preservation and image noise reduction of different levels.

Authors

  • Tan Wang
    Department of Nursing, School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi City 832000, China.
  • Liwen Zhang
    National Engineering Laboratory of Big Data Analytics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
  • Zechen Wei
  • Yusong Shen
  • Jie Tian
    CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
  • Hui Hui
    Department of Emergency, The First Medical Center to Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China.