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A wavelet-assisted subband denoising for tomographic image reconstruction
•A new adaptive denoising is proposed for tomographic image reconstruction.•The method combines the wavelet techniques and the Non Local Means (NLM) filter.•The numerical experiments show that the method can reduce various forms of noise.•Robustness tests prove that the approach is more stable than...
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Published in: | Journal of visual communication and image representation 2018-08, Vol.55, p.115-130 |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | •A new adaptive denoising is proposed for tomographic image reconstruction.•The method combines the wavelet techniques and the Non Local Means (NLM) filter.•The numerical experiments show that the method can reduce various forms of noise.•Robustness tests prove that the approach is more stable than state-of-the-art methods.
Many methods of image acquisition from medical multidimensional data rely on continuous techniques whereas in fact they are used in a finite discrete field. The discretization step is often accompanied by residuals diminishing the quality of the produced images. In addition, the acquisition phase does not occur in an ideal way and may cause artifacts and nonstandard noise. Therefore, denoising is mandatory for many algorithms in computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we propose a new denoising strategy for the tomographic image reconstruction. The method is based on a coupling of the wavelet techniques with the well-known Non Local Means (NLM) filter and operates adaptively during the data acquisition stage. Unlike other well-known denoising techniques, which are mainly based on the smoothing of the resultant image, this approach is instead based on the sinogram preprocessing. The numerical simulations show that the tomographic reconstruction based on the new denoising strategy is able to reduce enough noises present in various forms in the data. Additional robustness tests prove that the proposed approach is more stable than the basic NLM and other homologous methods. |
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ISSN: | 1047-3203 1095-9076 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.05.004 |