Denoising of low dose CT images using mask non-harmonic analysis with edge-preservation segmentation and whitening filter

K Uchikoshi, M Hasegawa… - … biomedical imaging XIV, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Computed tomography (CT) imaging acquires patient images using radiation. However,
scanning with high doses of radiation can pose a risk to health, because of radiation …

CT image denoising using NLM and correlation‐based wavelet packet thresholding

M Diwakar, M Kumar - IET Image Processing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of radiation dose is directly related to the quality of computed tomography (CT)
images. Low‐dose CT images are degraded with the noise and other factors. Noise …

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 …

Low-Dose Computed Tomography Image Denoising with Variance-Stabilizing Transformation and Noise Variance Estimation

W Zhang, B Mao, X Chen, L Wang… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Computed tomography (CT) delivers a dose of radiation to the patient, presenting an
important risk. However, reducing the radiation dose can introduce noise into CT images. To …

Noise reduction in CT image using prior knowledge aware iterative denoising

S Tao, K Rajendran, W Zhou, JG Fletcher… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The clinical demand for low image noise often limits the slice thickness used in many CT
applications. However, a thick-slice image is more susceptible to longitudinal partial volume …

A two-step denoising method for low dose computed tomography image via morphological component analysis and non-local means

L Jia, Q Zhang, Y Liu, W Chen, N Wang… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) can reduce the radiation hazard to patients
effectively. However, mottle noise and streak artifacts often lower and degenerate the quality …

CNN and multi-feature extraction based denoising of CT images

J Zhang, HL Zhou, Y Niu, JC Lv, J Chen… - … Signal Processing and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decades, Computed Tomography (CT) images have been widely used and
played a critically role in medical diagnosis. In low-dose CT images, reducing the radiation …

Denoising of polychromatic CT images based on their own noise properties

JH Kim, Y Chang, JB Ra - Medical Physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Because of high diagnostic accuracy and fast scan time, computed tomography
(CT) has been widely used in various clinical applications. Since the CT scan introduces …

A review on CT image noise and its denoising

M Diwakar, M Kumar - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2018 - Elsevier
CT imaging is widely used in medical science over the last decades. The process of CT
image reconstruction depends on many physical measurements such as radiation dose …

A three-dimensional denoising method for low-dose computed tomography

S Xiaobao, D Yong, D Ruizhe… - Journal of Medical …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) becomes an increasingly significant research object
in recent years result from the harm of radiation used in X-ray CT to health of patients …