Deep Convolutional Framelet Denosing for Low-Dose CT via Wavelet Residual Network

Model based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithms for low-dose X-ray CT are computationally expensive. To address this problem, we recently proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for low-dose X-ray CT and won the second place in 2016 AAPM Low-Dose CT Grand Challenge. However, some o...

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Main Authors Kang, Eunhee, Yoo, Jaejun, Ye, Jong Chul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.07.2017
Subjects
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science - Learning
Statistics - Machine Learning
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DOI10.48550/arxiv.1707.09938

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Summary:Model based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithms for low-dose X-ray CT are computationally expensive. To address this problem, we recently proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for low-dose X-ray CT and won the second place in 2016 AAPM Low-Dose CT Grand Challenge. However, some of the texture were not fully recovered. To address this problem, here we propose a novel framelet-based denoising algorithm using wavelet residual network which synergistically combines the expressive power of deep learning and the performance guarantee from the framelet-based denoising algorithms. The new algorithms were inspired by the recent interpretation of the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) as a cascaded convolution framelet signal representation. Extensive experimental results confirm that the proposed networks have significantly improved performance and preserves the detail texture of the original images.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1707.09938