Noise reduction for low-dose X-ray CT based on fuzzy logical in stationary wavelet domain |
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Authors: | Yi Liu Zhiguo GuiQuan Zhang |
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Institution: | National Key Laboratory for Electronic Measurement Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China |
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Abstract: | Apparent streak-like artifacts will present in reconstructed images due to excessive quantum noise in low-dose X-ray imaging process. Dealing with the noisy sinogram before a filtered back-projection (FBP) is a useful solution to solve this noise problem. In this paper, we proposed a novel noise restoration method combining wavelet and fuzzy logical technology for low-dose computed tomography (CT) sinogram. The method first utilizes stationary wavelet transform on the noisy sinogram, namely decomposes the sinogram to different resolution levels. And then, at each decomposed resolution level, a fuzzy shrinkage filter is applied to restore the noise-contaminated wavelet coefficients. Simulations were performed and indicated that the proposed method could significantly suppress noise and reduced streak-like artifacts in reconstructed images while at the same time maintaining the image sharpness. |
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Keywords: | Low-dose CT Stationary wavelet transform Noise reduction FBP |
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