Efficient low-dose CT denoising by locally-consistent non-local means (LC-NLM)

M Green, EM Marom, N Kiryati, E Konen… - Medical Image Computing …, 2016 - Springer
The never-ending quest for lower radiation exposure is a major challenge to the image
quality of advanced CT scans. Post-processing algorithms have been recently proposed to …

A constructive non-local means algorithm for low-dose computed tomography denoising with morphological residual processing

DC Lepcha, A Dogra, B Goyal, V Goyal, V Kukreja… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted significant attention in the domain of
medical imaging due to the inherent risks of normal-dose computed tomography (NDCT) …

Adaptive non-local means filtering based on local noise level for CT denoising

Z Li, L Yu, JD Trzasko, JG Fletcher… - … 2012: Physics of …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Radiation dose from CT scans is an increasing health concern in the practice of radiology.
Higher dose scans can produce clearer images with high diagnostic quality, but may …

Edge‐preserving median filter and weighted coding with sparse nonlocal regularization for low‐dose ct image denoising algorithm

Q Yuan, Z Peng, Z Chen, Y Guo… - Journal of Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impulse noise in CT image was removed based on edge‐preserving median filter
algorithm. The sparse nonlocal regularization algorithm weighted coding was used to …

Denoising for low-dose CT image by discriminative weighted nuclear norm minimization

L Jia, Q Zhang, Y Shang, Y Wang, Y Liu, N Wang… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an effective approach to reduce radiation
exposure to patients. Lots of mottle noise and streak artifacts, however, are introduced to the …

Low-dose CT image denoising using sparse 3d transformation with probabilistic non-local means for clinical applications

D Chyophel Lepcha, B Goyal… - The Imaging Science …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The use of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in medical practice can effectively
reduce the radiation risk of patients, but it may increase noise and artefacts, which can …

Spectral CT image restoration via an average image-induced nonlocal means filter

D Zeng, J Huang, H Zhang, Z Bian… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal: Spectral computed tomography (SCT) images reconstructed by an analytical approach
often suffer from a poor signal-to-noise ratio and strong streak artifacts when sufficient …

SR-NLM: a sinogram restoration induced non-local means image filtering for low-dose computed tomography

Z Bian, J Ma, J Huang, H Zhang, S Niu, Q Feng… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Radiation dose has raised significant concerns to patients and operators in modern X-ray
computed tomography (CT) examinations. A simple and cost-effective means to perform a …

Nonlocal Means‐Based Denoising for Medical Images

K Lu, N He, L Li - Computational and mathematical methods in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Medical images often consist of low‐contrast objects corrupted by random noise arising in
the image acquisition process. Thus, image denoising is one of the fundamental tasks …

Adaptive non‐local means on local principle neighborhood for noise/artifacts reduction in low‐dose CT images

Y Zhang, H Lu, J Rong, J Meng, J Shang… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Low‐dose CT (LDCT) technique can reduce the x‐ray radiation exposure to
patients at the cost of degraded images with severe noise and artifacts. Non‐local means …