Temporal and Volumetric Denoising via Quantile Sparse Image Prior

Schirrmacher F, Köhler T, Endres J, Lindenberger T, Husvogt L, Fujimoto JG, Hornegger J, Dörfler A, Maier A, Hölter P (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Medical Image Analysis Elsevier

Publisher: Elsevier B.V.

Book Volume: 48

Pages Range: 131-146

Journal Issue: 0

URI: https://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2018/Schirrmacher18-TAV.pdf

DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2018.06.002

Abstract

This paper introduces an universal and structure-preserving regularization term, called quantile sparse image (QuaSI) prior. The prior is suitable for denoising images from various medical imaging modalities. We demonstrate its effectiveness on volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT) and computed tomography (CT) data, which show different noise and image characteristics. OCT offers high-resolution scans of the human retina but is inherently impaired by speckle noise. CT on the other hand has a lower resolution and shows high-frequency noise. For the purpose of denoising, we propose a variational framework based on the QuaSI prior and a Huber data fidelity model that can handle 3-D and 3-D+t data. Efficient optimization is facilitated through the use of an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) scheme and the linearization of the quantile filter. Experiments on multiple datasets emphasize the excellent performance of the proposed method.

Authors with CRIS profile

Franziska Schirrmacher Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Thomas Köhler Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Jürgen Endres Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Lennart Husvogt Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung) Joachim Hornegger Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Arnd Dörfler
Andreas Maier Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung) Philip Hölter Department of Neuroradiology

Involved external institutions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

APA:

Schirrmacher, F., Köhler, T., Endres, J., Lindenberger, T., Husvogt, L., Fujimoto, J.G.,... Hölter, P. (2018). Temporal and Volumetric Denoising via Quantile Sparse Image Prior. Medical Image Analysis, 48(0), 131-146. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2018.06.002

MLA:

Schirrmacher, Franziska, et al. "Temporal and Volumetric Denoising via Quantile Sparse Image Prior." Medical Image Analysis 48.0 (2018): 131-146.

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