Super-resolution for medical images corrupted by heavy noise

Dai-Viet Tran; Marie Luong; Sébastien Li-Thao-Té; Jean-Marie Rocchisani; Françoise Dibos; Thuong Le-Tien

doi:10.1117/12.2082314

20 March 2015 Super-resolution for medical images corrupted by heavy noise

Dai-Viet Tran, Marie Luong, Sébastien Li-Thao-Té, Jean-Marie Rocchisani, Françoise Dibos, Thuong Le-Tien

Proceedings Volume 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing; 94130E (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082314
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Medical images often suffer from noise and low-resolution, which may compromise the accuracy of diagnosis. How to improve the image resolution in cases of heavy noise is still a challenging issue. This paper introduces a novel Examplebased Super-resolution (SR) method for medical images corrupted by heavy Poisson noise, integrating efficiently denoising and SR in the same framework. The purpose is to estimate a high-resolution (HR) image from a single noisy low-resolution (LR) image, with the help of a given set of standard images which are used as examples to construct the database. Precisely, for each patch in the noisy LR image, the idea is to find its nearest neighbor patches from the database and use them to estimate the HR patch by computing a regression function based on the construction of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. To obtain the corresponding set of k-nearest neighbors in the database, a coarse search using the shortest Euclidean distance is first performed, followed by a refined search using a criterion based on the distribution of Poisson noise and the Anscombe transformation. This paper also evaluates the performance of the method comparing to other state-of-the-art denoising methods and SR methods. The obtained results demonstrate its efficiency, especially for heavy Poisson noise.

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Dai-Viet Tran, Marie Luong, Sébastien Li-Thao-Té, Jean-Marie Rocchisani, Françoise Dibos, and Thuong Le-Tien "Super-resolution for medical images corrupted by heavy noise", Proc. SPIE 9413, Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing, 94130E (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082314

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Denoising

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Medical imaging

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Positron emission tomography

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