基于小波变换和非负支撑域递归逆滤波算法的盲目图像复原

提出了一种将自适应正则化方法与非负支撑域递归逆滤波(NAS-RIF)算法相结合用于小波域的盲图像复原算法.该算法先对降质图像进行小波分解,得到了图像在不同子频段的信息.在各个子频段采用NAS-RIF算法进行复原.针对各个子频段内图像的频率和方向特性,分别引入了不同的正则化约束项.在各个子频段估计出噪声方差,提出了根据噪声方差和图像局部方差来选取正则化参数.分别对两幅模糊图像进行了仿真实验,复原结果取得的信噪比分别为19.66 dB和23.86 dB.实验结果表明,复原效果相对于空间自适应正则化方法有一定的提高.     

基于空间自适应非凸正则项全变差相干斑噪声抑制

全变差正则化方法是相干斑噪声抑制研究的热点.非凸正则项能够更好地保持图像的边缘、纹理细节信息;空间自适应正则化参数可以根据像素点所在的区域,合理地控制噪声抑制程度,从而提高噪声抑制效果.本文结合非凸正则项和空间自适应正则化参数提出了一种新的全变差相干斑噪声抑制模型,并且给出了一种模型求解的数值算法.数值试验结果表明该模型能够获得更好的相干斑噪声抑制效果.     

基于双阈值Huber范数估计的图像正则化超分辨率算法

多帧图像超分辨率算法利用图像间的互补信息, 可以从一系列具有亚像素位移的低分辨率影像数据中重建出高分辨率图像. 在众多超分辨率算法中, 正则化方法以其求解病态问题的有效性而被广泛应用, 但在此类方法中, 最优估计算子的估计准确度对最后的重建结果有着较大的影响. 本文在现有正则化超分辨率重建算法的基础上, 提出了一种基于双阈值Huber范数的极大似然估计算子, 可以提高Huber范数对于阈值取值的容忍性和算子估计精度; 并给出了基于该算子的正则化超分辨率算法的迭代公式. 通过对仿真图像进行重建, 结果表明算法可有效地抑制各种噪声并保证重建效果; 同时将此算法应用于实际图像的超分辨率重建, 有效地提高了目标影像的空间分辨率. 关键词： 图像处理 图像重建 超分辨率 正则化     

基于图像熵的各向异性扩散相干斑噪声抑制

本文提出了一种基于图像熵的各向异性扩散滤波方法. 该方法使用图像熵作为边缘检测算子, 避免了由于均值和方差等统计量的估计带来的误差, 提高了边缘检测能力. 试验结果表明该方法能够获得比传统方法更好的相干斑噪声抑制效果. 关键词： 相干斑抑制 各向异性扩散 图像熵 合成孔径雷达     

自适应双树复小波遥感图像复原

由于遥感图像先验知识难以获取,提出了一种自适应的双树复小波迭代收缩复原算法。该算法根据模糊程度和噪声程度估计正则化参数,并利用经验公式计算收缩阈值。在实际应用中,算法能有效解决两步迭代算法使用固定参数的缺点,从而达到提高图像复原质量的目的。实验表明:相对于两步迭代算法,该算法复原图像的峰值信噪比提高0.64~12.23dB,收敛速度提高1.4~16倍;同时,算法在提高图像复原质量、抑制噪声干扰及减少计算时间方面优势明显。     

基于随机点扩散函数的多帧湍流退化图像自适应复原方法

针对湍流退化图像随机性的问题,提出了一种基于随机点扩散函数的多帧湍流退化图像自适应复原方法。首先介绍了随机点扩散函数的图像退化模型,并分析了点扩散函数随机性对图像复原造成的影响,建立了基于随机点扩散函数的多帧图像退化模型。在此基础上,建立了基于多帧退化图像的全变分复原模型,利用前向后向算子分裂法对模型进行求解,提高了算法的运算效率。然后,提出了一种新的自适应正则化参数选取方法,该方法利用全变分复原模型的目标函数计算正则化参数,当正则化参数收敛时,复原图像的峰值信噪比达到最大值,因此利用目标函数的相对差值作为自适应算法迭代终止的条件,可以获得最佳复原效果。最后通过实验分析,算法中退化图像的帧数应不大于10帧。实验结果表明:当取10帧退化图像时,AFBS算法运算时间与单帧的FBS算法相当,信噪比增益为1.4 dB。本文算法对图像噪声有明显的抑制作用,对湍流退化图像可以获得较好的复原效果。     

基于期望最大化框架的医学超声图像去斑

针对医学超声图像斑点噪声,提出一种基于期望最大化(EM)框架的去斑算法.先从超声I/Q图像中提取实部;然后从该实部图像中"盲估计"出系统的点扩散函数;最后利用EM算法,在维纳滤波和各向异性扩散间进行迭代,从而获得去斑后的超声图像.对不同信噪比的仿真图像和实际图像采用本文方法和现有方法进行比较实验,结果表明,采用本文方法...     

改进的固定点图像复原算法（英文）

研究了周期边界条件下,Tikhonov正则化的固定点算法,提出了变化正则化参数的方法。首先对正则化参数取较大值,抑制复原图像中的噪声,通过得出的收敛结果来修正初始梯度;然后对正则化参数取较小值,以增强复原图像中的细节。实验结果表明,与当前求解L1范数正则化函数和全变分正则化函数的流行算法比较,本文算法对于运动模糊与高斯模糊图像的复原效果更佳。     

单幅模糊图像点扩散函数估计的梯度倒谱分析方法研究

针对单幅图像复原算法引入先验信息导致复杂度高、运算效率低的问题, 提出了单幅模糊图像点扩散函数估计的梯度倒谱分析方法. 首先给出了单幅模糊图像梯度倒谱估计其点扩散函数的基本原理, 利用相位恢复策略复原了二维点扩散函数相位信息, 实现了点扩散函数的快速估计; 其次, 为鉴别点扩散函数估计精度, 建立了图像梯度保真约束的全变分正则化图像复原模型, 并采用快速稳定收敛的交替方向策略优化能量函数; 通过对仿真和实拍单幅模糊图像进行的测试实验结果表明, 该方法快速准确地估计出点扩散函数, 克服了传统复原算法收敛速度慢的缺点, 有效抑制了振铃效应、保护了边缘信息, 为大尺寸单幅图像复原的工程化实现提供了理论和技术基础. 关键词： 图像复原 点扩散函数 梯度倒谱分析 全变分     

一种抑制合成孔径雷达图像相干斑的各向异性扩散滤波方法

本文提出了一种抑制合成孔径雷达图像乘性相干斑噪声的各向异性扩散滤波新方法.该方法将受自适应耦合函数控制的平均曲率运动嵌入到传统相干斑抑制的各向异性扩散方程中,形成了一种可有效抑制边缘区域相干斑与同质区块效应现象的各向异性扩散新方程,同时在新建的扩散方程中,引入了由改进Frost滤波与局部方向比率联合构建的一种带方向约束的新扩散函数,进一步削弱了块效应现象且明显改善了抑斑图像的边缘抖动扭曲问题.实验结果表明该方法在有效保护图像边缘的同时,能充分平滑同质区与边缘区域的相干斑,明显削弱块效应现象,有效改善抑斑图像边缘抖动扭曲问题,而抑斑图像无论视觉效果还是参数指标均比多种传统抑斑方法更具优势.     

Application of perceptual difference model on regularization techniques of parallel MR imaging

Parallel magnetic resonance imaging through sensitivity encoding using multiple receiver coils has emerged as an effective tool to reduce imaging time or to improve image SNR. The quality of reconstructed images is limited by the inaccurate estimation of the sensitivity map, noise in the acquired k-space data and the ill-conditioned nature of the coefficient matrix. Tikhonov regularization is a popular method to reduce or eliminate the ill-conditioned nature of the problem. In this approach, selection of the regularization map and the regularization parameter is very important. Perceptual difference model (PDM) is a quantitative image quality evaluation tool that has been successfully applied to varieties of MR applications. High correlation between the human rating and PDM score shows that PDM should be suitable to evaluate image quality in parallel MR imaging. By applying PDM, we compared four methods of selecting the regularization map and four methods of selecting the regularization parameter. We found that a regularization map obtained using generalized series (GS) together with a spatially adaptive regularization parameter gave the best reconstructions. PDM was also used as an objective function for optimizing two important parameters in the spatially adaptive method. We conclude that PDM enables one to do comprehensive experiments and that it is an effective tool for designing and optimizing reconstruction methods in parallel MR imaging.     

A general strategy for anisotropic diffusion in MR image denoising and enhancement

Anisotropic diffusion (AD) has proven to be very effective in the denoising of magnetic resonance (MR) images. The result of AD filtering is highly dependent on several parameters, especially the conductance parameter. However, there is no automatic method to select the optimal parameter values. This paper presents a general strategy for AD filtering of MR images using an automatic parameter selection method. The basic idea is to estimate the parameters through an optimization step on a synthetic image model, which is different from traditional analytical methods. This approach can be easily applied to more sophisticated diffusion models for better denoising results. We conducted a systematic study of parameter selection for the AD filter, including the dynamic parameter decreasing rate, the parameter selection range for different noise levels and the influence of the image contrast on parameter selection. The proposed approach was validated using both simulated and real MR images. The model image generated using our approach was shown to be highly suitable for the purpose of parameter optimization. The results confirm that our method outperforms most state-of-the-art methods in both quantitative measurement and visual evaluation. By testing on real images with different noise levels, we demonstrated that our method is sufficiently general to be applied to a variety of MR images.     

The adaptive sinogram restoration algorithm based on anisotropic diffusion by energy minimization for low-dose X-ray CT

Apparent streak artifacts will present in reconstructed images due to excessive quantum noise in low-dose X-ray imaging process. Estimating a noise-free sinogram to satisfy the filtered back-projection (FBP) reconstruction is an effective way to solve this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel sinogram noise reduction method by energy minimization. An adaptive smoothness parameter based on a modified anisotropic diffusion coefficient is applied for an optimal estimation. The smoothness parameter can make the method effectively adjust the degree of smoothness according to the noise level and the region feature in the sinogram. Visual effect together with quantitative analysis of the experimental result shows the developed approach has the excellent performance in protection of the edge and removal of streak artifacts in the reconstructed image.     

Adaptive fixed-point iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm for MR imaging reconstruction using compressed sensing

Recently compressed sensing (CS) has been applied to under-sampling MR image reconstruction for significantly reducing signal acquisition time. To guarantee the accuracy and efficiency of the CS-based MR image reconstruction, it necessitates determining several regularization and algorithm-introduced parameters properly in practical implementations. The regularization parameter is used to control the trade-off between the sparsity of MR image and the fidelity measures of k-space data, and thus has an important effect on the reconstructed image quality. The algorithm-introduced parameters determine the global convergence rate of the algorithm itself. These parameters make CS-based MR image reconstruction a more difficult scheme than traditional Fourier-based method while implemented on a clinical MR scanner. In this paper, we propose a new approach that reveals that the regularization parameter can be taken as a threshold in a fixed-point iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (FPIST) and chosen by employing minimax threshold selection method. No extra parameter is introduced by FPIST. The simulation results on synthetic and real complex-valued MRI data show that the proposed method can adaptively choose the regularization parameter and effectively achieve high reconstruction quality. The proposed method should prove very useful for practical CS-based MRI applications.     

Adaptive regularized image interpolation using a probabilistic gradient measure

An adaptive image interpolation approach is proposed in this paper. The proposed approach imposes a regularization on the reconstructed high-resolution image to suppress the noise and blurring incurred in the observed low-resolution image. Furthermore, the proposed regularization scheme is steered by the local gradient information of the image, which is evaluated using a probabilistic measure. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.     

改进的傅里叶域小波域联合去模糊算法

傅里叶域与小波域的联合去模糊算法在低噪声时具有优越的恢复效果,但是这种联合去模糊算法并不适用于含噪声的模糊图像.为了解决这一问题,本文将先验约束分别引入傅里叶域的去模糊步骤和小波域的去噪步骤.在傅里叶域,用矩阵形式表示目标函数.对目标函数添加平滑约束并且通过噪声水平和模糊图像高频信息计算得到平滑约束项的滤波系数.同样方式,在小波域对小波域目标函数添加能量约束,实现小波域目标函数的正则化过程.分析傅里叶域的噪声放大程度,通过傅里叶域的滤波系数计算得到小波域能量约束的滤波系数.傅里叶域的平滑约束可以抑制滤波过程中噪声的产生,小波域的能量约束可以提高小波域滤波的鲁棒性.仿真实验表明,改进的算法相比于原始算法具有更好的鲁棒性,可以有效提高图像的恢复质量.对于噪声标准差为0.010.1的模糊图像,改进算法恢复图像峰值信噪比比原始算法恢复图像的峰值信噪比高1左右.并且改进算法对于高斯型点扩散函数误差具有鲁棒性,当点扩散函数估计方差与实际方差相差0.4时,改进算法的恢复效果仍优于原始算法.     

On some applications of diffusion processes for image processing

We propose a new algorithm inspired by the properties of diffusion processes for image filtering. We show that purely nonlinear diffusion processes ruled by Fisher equation allows contrast enhancement and noise filtering, but involves a blurry image. By contrast, anisotropic diffusion, described by Perona and Malik algorithm, allows noise filtering and preserves the edges. We show that combining the properties of anisotropic diffusion with those of nonlinear diffusion provides a better processing tool which enables noise filtering, contrast enhancement and edge preserving.     

Generalized total variation-based MRI Rician denoising model with spatially adaptive regularization parameters

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an outstanding medical imaging modality but the quality often suffers from noise pollution during image acquisition and transmission. The purpose of this study is to enhance image quality using feature-preserving denoising method. In current literature, most existing MRI denoising methods did not simultaneously take the global image prior and local image features into account. The denoising method proposed in this paper is implemented based on an assumption of spatially varying Rician noise map. A two-step wavelet-domain estimation method is developed to extract the noise map. Following a Bayesian modeling approach, a generalized total variation-based MRI denoising model is proposed based on global hyper-Laplacian prior and Rician noise assumption. The proposed model has the properties of backward diffusion in local normal directions and forward diffusion in local tangent directions. To further improve the denoising performance, a local variance estimator-based method is introduced to calculate the spatially adaptive regularization parameters related to local image features and spatially varying noise map. The main benefit of the proposed method is that it takes full advantage of the global MR image prior and local image features. Numerous experiments have been conducted on both synthetic and real MR data sets to compare our proposed model with some state-of-the-art denoising methods. The experimental results have demonstrated the superior performance of our proposed model in terms of quantitative and qualitative image quality evaluations.     

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging using multiplicative regularization

In this paper we present a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that is based on multiplicative regularization. Instead of adding a regularizing objective function to a data fidelity term, we multiply by such a regularizing function. By following this approach, no regularization parameter needs to be determined for each new data set that is acquired. Reconstructions are obtained by iteratively updating the images using short-term conjugate gradient-type update formulas and Polak-Ribière update directions. We show that the algorithm can be used as an image reconstruction algorithm and as a denoising algorithm. We illustrate the performance of the algorithm on two-dimensional simulated low-field MR data that is corrupted by noise and on three-dimensional measured data obtained from a low-field MR scanner. Our reconstruction results show that the algorithm effectively suppresses noise and produces accurate reconstructions even for low-field MR signals with a low signal-to-noise ratio.