Computed Tomography (CT) Image Quality Enhancement via a Uniform Framework Integrating Noise Estimation and Super-Resolution Networks

Sensors
Jianning ChiChengdong Wu

Abstract

Computed tomography (CT) imaging technology has been widely used to assist medical diagnosis in recent years. However, noise during the process of imaging, and data compression during the process of storage and transmission always interrupt the image quality, resulting in unreliable performance of the post-processing steps in the computer assisted diagnosis system (CADs), such as medical image segmentation, feature extraction, and medical image classification. Since the degradation of medical images typically appears as noise and low-resolution blurring, in this paper, we propose a uniform deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) framework to handle the de-noising and super-resolution of the CT image at the same time. The framework consists of two steps: Firstly, a dense-inception network integrating an inception structure and dense skip connection is proposed to estimate the noise level. The inception structure is used to extract the noise and blurring features with respect to multiple receptive fields, while the dense skip connection can reuse those extracted features and transfer them across the network. Secondly, a modified residual-dense network combined with joint loss is proposed to reconstruct the high-resolution image ...Continue Reading

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