Sparsity-based sinogram denoising for low-dose computed tomography

J. Shtok, M. Elad, M. Zibulevsky

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Abstract

We propose a sinogram restoration method which consists of a patch-wise non-linear processing, based on a sparsity prior in terms of a learned dictionary. An off-line learning process uses a statistical model of the sinogram noise and minimizes an error measure in the image domain over the training set. The error measure is designed to preserve low-contrast edges for visibility of soft tissues. Our numerical study shows that the algorithm improves on the performance of the standard Filtered Back-Projection algorithm and effectively allows to halve the radiation dose for the same image quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages569-572
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period22/05/1127/05/11

Keywords

  • Computed Tomography
  • Sparse-Land paradigm
  • sinogram restoration

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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