Denoising of 3D magnetic resonance images with multi-channel residual learning of convolutional neural network

12/23/2017
by   Dongsheng Jiang, et al.
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The denoising of magnetic resonance (MR) images is a task of great importance for improving the acquired image quality. Many methods have been proposed in the literature to retrieve noise free images with good performances. Howerever, the state-of-the-art denoising methods, all needs a time-consuming optimization processes and their performance strongly depend on the estimated noise level parameter. Within this manuscript we propose the idea of denoising MRI Rician noise using a convolutional neural network. The advantage of the proposed methodology is that the learning based model can be directly used in the denosing process without optimization and even without the noise level parameter. Specifically, a ten convolutional layers neural network combined with residual learning and multi-channel strategy was proposed. Two training ways: training on a specific noise level and training on a general level were conducted to demonstrate the capability of our methods. Experimental results over synthetic and real 3D MR data demonstrate our proposed network can achieve superior performance compared with other methods in term of both of the peak signal to noise ratio and the global of structure similarity index. Without noise level parameter, our general noise-applicable model is also better than the other compared methods in two datasets. Furthermore, our training model shows good general applicability.

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