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Combination of improved diffusion and bilateral filtering for low-dose CT reconstruction
ZHANG Pengcheng, ZHANG Quan, ZHANG Fang, CHEN Yan, HAN Jianning, HAO Huiyan, GUI Zhiguo
Journal of Computer Applications    2016, 36 (4): 1100-1105.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2016.04.1100
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Median Prior (MP) reconstruction algorithm combined with nonlocal means fuzzy diffusion and extended neighborhood bilateral filter was proposed to reduce the streak artifacts in low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction. In the new algorithm, the nonlocal means fuzzy diffusion method was used to improve the median of the prior distribution Maximum A Posterior (MAP) reconstruction algorithm at first, which reduced the noise in the reconstruction image; then, the bilateral filtering method based on the expended neighborhood was applied to preserve the edges and details of the reconstruction image and improve the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). The Shepp-Logan model and the thorax phantom were used to test the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed method has the smaller values of the Normalized Mean Square Distance (NMSD) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and the highest SNR (10.20 dB and 15.51 dB, respectively) in the two experiment images, compared with Filtered Back Projection (FBP), Median Root Prior (MRP), NonLocal Mean MP (NLMMP) and NonLocal Mean Bilateral Filter MP (NLMBFMP) algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed reconstruction algorithm can reduce noise while keeping the edges and details of the image, which improves the deterioration problem of the low-dose CT image and obtains the image with higher SNR and quality.
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