TextureWGAN: texture preserving WGAN with MLE regularizer for inverse problems

Masaki Ikuta; Jun Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2580434

15 February 2021 TextureWGAN: texture preserving WGAN with MLE regularizer for inverse problems

Masaki Ikuta, Jun Zhang

Proceedings Volume 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing; 1159618 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2580434
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Many algorithms and methods have been proposed for inverse problems particularly with the recent surge of interest in machine learning and deep learning methods. Among all proposed methods, the most popular and effective method is the convolutional neural network (CNN) with mean square error (MSE). This method has been proven effective in super-resolution, image de-noising, and image reconstruction. However, this method is known to over-smooth images due to the nature of MSE. MSE based methods minimize Euclidean distance for all pixels between a baseline image and a generated image by CNN and ignore the spatial information of the pixels such as image texture. In this paper, we proposed a new method based on Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) for inverse problems. We showed that the WGAN-based method was effective to preserve image texture. It also used a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) regularizer to preserve pixel fidelity. Maintaining image texture and pixel fidelity is the most important requirement for medical imaging. We used Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structure Similarity (SSIM) to evaluate the proposed method quantitatively. We also conducted the first-order and the second-order statistical image texture analysis to assess image texture.

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Masaki Ikuta and Jun Zhang "TextureWGAN: texture preserving WGAN with MLE regularizer for inverse problems", Proc. SPIE 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing, 1159618 (15 February 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2580434

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