Adaptive noise reduction toward low-dose computed tomography

Hongbing Lu; Xiang Li; Lihong Li; Dongqing Chen; Yuxiang Xing; Jiang Hsieh; Zhengrong Liang

doi:10.1117/12.480374

5 June 2003 Adaptive noise reduction toward low-dose computed tomography

Hongbing Lu, Xiang Li, Lihong Li, Dongqing Chen, Yuxiang Xing, Jiang Hsieh, Zhengrong Liang

Proceedings Volume 5030, Medical Imaging 2003: Physics of Medical Imaging; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480374
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

An efficient noise treatment scheme has been developed to achieve low-dose CT diagnosis based on currently available CT hardware and image reconstruction technologies. The scheme proposed includes two main parts: filtering in sinogram domain and smoothing in image domain. The acquired projection sinograms were first treated by our previously proposed Karhunen-Loeve (K-L) domain penalized weighted least-square (PWLS) filtering, which fully utilizes the prior statistical noise property and three-dimensional (3D) spatial information for an accurate restoration of the low-dose projections. To treat the streak artifacts due to photon starvation, we also incorporated an adaptive filtering into our PWLS framework, which selectively smoothes those channels contributing most to the streak artifacts. After the sinogram filtering, the image was reconstructed by the conventional filtered backprojection (FBP) method. The image is assumed as piecewise regions each has a unique texture. Therefore, an edge-preserving smoothing (EPS) with locally-adaptive parameters to the noise variation was applied for further noise reduction in image domain. Experimental phantom projections acquired by a GE spiral computed tomography (CT) scanner under 10 mAs tube current were used to evaluate the proposed smoothing scheme. The reconstructed imaged demonstrated that the smoothing scheme with appropriate control parameters provides a significant improvement on noise suppression without sacrificing the spatial resolution.

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Hongbing Lu, Xiang Li, Lihong Li, Dongqing Chen, Yuxiang Xing, Jiang Hsieh, and Zhengrong Liang "Adaptive noise reduction toward low-dose computed tomography", Proc. SPIE 5030, Medical Imaging 2003: Physics of Medical Imaging, (5 June 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480374

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