Image denoising based on multiscale singularity detection for cone beam CT breast imaging

It was recently reported that the real-time flat panel detector-based cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) breast imaging can help improve the detectability of small breast tumors with an X-ray dose comparable to that of the conventional mammography. In this paper, an efficient denoising algorithm is proposed to further reduce the X-ray exposure level required by a CBCT scan to acquire acceptable image quality. The proposed wavelet-based denoising algorithm possesses three significant characteristics: 1) wavelet coefficients at each scale are classified into two categories: irregular coefficients, and edge-related and regular coefficients; 2) noise in irregular coefficients is reduced as much as possible without producing artifacts to the denoised images; and 3) for the edge-related and regular coefficients, if they are at the first decomposition level, they are further denoised, otherwise, no modifications are made to them so as to obtain good visual quality for diagnosis. By applying the proposed denoising algorithm to the filtered projection images, the X-ray exposure level necessary for the CBCT scan can be reduced by up to 60% while obtaining clinically acceptable image quality. This denoising result indicates that in the clinical application of CBCT breast imaging, the patient radiation dose can be significantly reduced.     

一种小波域与空域相结合的图像滤波方法

利用小波阈值去噪方法和传统空间域Lee 滤波的特点, 提出了一种图像去噪的的组合滤波方案。首先在小波域对图像阈值去噪, 得到预去噪图像; 再在空间域上利用自适应Wiener 滤波器进一步提高恢复图像的精度。为了保证小波域和空间域两种算法之间的匹配, 对预去噪图像中残留噪声的分布进行了研究, 对其噪声方差估计做了改进, 提出了一种估计噪声方差的近似最优公式。仿真实验表明, 与单独的在小波域或空域去噪相比, 该方法的均方误差和信噪比指标均得到了改善。     

基于单小波和多小波的红外图像盲去噪

Introduction Infrared Image denoising is a basic problem of image processing.It is well known that the more prioriknowledge is used,the better filtering effect is gotten.Usually,we can only get a contaminated image and prioriknowledge of noise can not be gotten accurately so the filtering effect is not good.Wavelet denoising algorithmproposed by Donoho et al.[1]is widely used.It is considered the better denoising algorithm recently.However,itrequires size of image to determine the important …     

一种图像去噪的小波相位滤波改进算法

大多数的小波去噪方法都是基于图像小波幅度信息的,但对于低SNR图像来说,其小波域中的图像边缘信息被噪声掩盖,所以有人提出了对幅度不敏感的小波相位滤波算法,利用含噪图像分解后的相位信息来恢复图像,本文对这种算法作出了一些改进。在相位滤波的基础上,考虑Laplace邻域,试验结果表明比原算法效果好。     

基于小波局部统计特性的图像去噪方法

本文提出一种利用图像在小波域上局部统计特性的自适应去噪方法。首先在LMMSE准则下,推导出小波系数在局部区域的恢复公式。为进一步精确地估计理想小波系数的局部方差,本算法提出利用尺度间和子带内的相关性,即利用粗尺度下小波系数的局部方差预测精细尺度下相应位置的小波系数为噪声成分的概率,以及常规估计下的小波系数的局部方差是否小于某个门限值判断其是否为噪声成分。然后以这些局域窗内非噪声成分系数估计理想小波系数局部方差。实验结果表明,本算法与传统算法相比,对图像质量有进一步地改善,尤其是对细节丰富的图像表现地更为突出。     

Shearlet变换域自适应图像去噪算法

首先采用Haar小波滤波器,设计出一种数字Shearlet变换算法。然后对Shearlet系数间的相关性进行统计分析,提出了一种尺度相关的自适应阈值收缩图像去噪算法。最后选用峰值信噪比和视觉质量为评价标准,实验验证算法的去噪性能。结果表明,本文算法获得更高的峰值信噪比,更好地保留了图像的细节信息。     

Image denoising by supervised adaptive fusion of decomposed images restored using wave atom,curvelet and wavelet transform

This paper presents an efficient image denoising method that adaptively combines the features of wavelets, wave atoms and curvelets. Wavelet shrinkage is used to denoise the smooth regions in the image while wave atoms are employed to denoise the textures, and the edges will take advantage of curvelet denoising. The received noisy image is firstly decomposed into a homogenous (smooth/cartoon) part and a textural part. The cartoon part of the noisy image is denoised using wavelet transform, and the texture part of the noisy image is denoised using wave atoms. The two denoised images are then fused adaptively. For adaptive fusion, different weights are chosen from the variance map of the denoised texture image. Further improvement in denoising results is achieved by denoising the edges through curvelet transform. The information about edge location is gathered from the variance map of denoised cartoon image. The denoised image results in perfect presentation of the smooth regions and efficient preservation of textures and edges in the image.     

基于小波变换的空间目标图像去噪方法

通过对空间目标图像的特性进行分析,提出一种针对星空背景图像在保留恒星同时去除混合噪声的方法.该方法首先利用小波局部模极大值的多尺度相关性检测出图像边缘,再利用基于梯度分析的改进阈值方法对非边缘小波系数进行萎缩,最后由小波系数重构去噪后图像.实验证明该方法能够有效地去除高斯和椒盐混合噪声,使图像峰值信噪比提高5-10dB,并较好地保留图像边缘和有效恒星信息.     

基于小波域统计建模及显著性修正的SAR图像相干斑抑制

该文提出了一种基于小波域统计建模与小波系数显著性修正相结合的斑点噪声滤波方法。这种方法首先通过对数变换将乘性噪声模型转化为加性噪声模型,对对数变换后的图像进行小波变换并对小波域的高频子带系数用混合高斯模型与隐马尔可夫树模型进行建模,并采用EM算法来估计模型参数。在模型参数估计的基础上;利用贝叶斯最小均方误差准则来估计干净的小波系数。在此基础上引入基于显著性准则的小波系数修正,最后通过小波逆变换与指数变换获得抑制斑点噪声后的图像。用真实SAR图像实验表明,该文提出的方法能够有效地抑制斑点噪声,同时能够很好地保存边缘细节结构与强散射中心。     

基于非局部均值滤波的小波红外图像去噪

为避免小波去噪时阈值的缺陷和非局部均值滤波去噪时计算的复杂性和更有效地去除红外图像中的噪声,提出了一种采用非局部均值滤波的小波图像去噪方法.对含噪图像进行多层小波分解,采用新的贝叶斯估计阈值对高频系数进行阈值化处理,以消除高频噪声;在部分低层子带上进行非局部均值处理以进一步消除噪声.实验结果表明,与通常的小波阈值去噪和非局部均值去噪相比,该方法能很好地去除红外图像中的噪声,获得更高的信噪比(Signal To Noise Ratio,SNR)和更小的均方误差(MeanSquared Error,MSE),而且该方法计算相对简单,能达到很好的视觉效果.     

基于M带小波变换与模糊聚类的图像去噪算法

M带小波变换是标准二带小波变换的自然推广,能够分析具有相对窄带的高频信号,而且能更好的集中信号能量,因此在信号处理中应用广泛。本文结合模糊聚类算法,提出了一种新的基于M带小波变换的图像去噪算法,利用模糊聚类算法把小波系数划分成两类：包含信号的小波系数与只包含噪声的小波系数,对只包含噪声的小波系数置为零,将包含信号的小波系数进行利用软阈值法进行收缩,最后对处理后的系数进行M带小波逆变换,得到去噪后的图像。对SAR图像的实验结果表明,该算法有效,而且能较好地保留边缘信息。     

基于小波变换和改进SVD的红外图像去噪

针对小波变换红外图像去噪需要已知噪声先验知识的缺点,提出了一种基于分块奇异值分解的正交小波变换红外图像去噪新算法。首先对红外图像进行离散正交小波变换,并对高频图像采用改进的分块奇异值分解估计小波系数,其中对奇异向量采用傅里叶变换进行了修正;最后将低频图像与估计的高频图像通过小波反变换得到去噪图像。仿真结果表明,该图像去噪算法能在无噪声先验知识条件下有效去除图像噪声,信噪比有了明显提高,并获得了良好的主观视觉效果。     

遥感图像的NSCT自适应阈值去噪方法

提出了一种基于非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)相结合的遥感图像自适应阈值去噪方法。通过小波估计被噪声污染遥感图像的噪声强弱,根据噪声的强弱以及NSCT的分解特点及系数所在邻域的特性,给出不同尺度不同方向的自适应阈值。仿真实验结果表明,与小波硬阈值、Contourlet硬阈值和基于非下采样Contourlet硬阈值去噪方法比较,该方法在提高了图像的峰值信噪比的同时也减少了Gibbs现象,图像视觉效果也得到明显的改善。     

基于平稳小波变换的图像去噪方法

针对传统正交小波变换在图像去噪时存在的边缘失真,提出了一种基于平稳小波变换的图像去噪方法。使用系数关联法将图像小波分解后的高频分量像素标记为噪声和边缘,如果小波系数被标记为边缘,则保持其系数不变,否则采用基于邻域的方法进行系数收缩。当噪声方差较大时,收缩后最小尺度的高频分量中会存在一些孤立的亮点或暗点,借助次大尺度高频分量将其去除,对处理后的小波系数进行平稳小波反变换得到去噪图像。实验结果表明,本文方法能够在去除噪声的同时较好地保持图像的边缘,是一种有效的图像去噪方法。     

Image Denoising Using Trivariate Shrinkage Filter in the Wavelet Domain and Joint Bilateral Filter in the Spatial Domain

This correspondence proposes an efficient algorithm for removing Gaussian noise from corrupted image by incorporating a wavelet-based trivariate shrinkage filter with a spatial-based joint bilateral filter. In the wavelet domain, the wavelet coefficients are modeled as trivariate Gaussian distribution, taking into account the statistical dependencies among intrascale wavelet coefficients, and then a trivariate shrinkage filter is derived by using the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator. Although wavelet-based methods are efficient in image denoising, they are prone to producing salient artifacts such as low-frequency noise and edge ringing which relate to the structure of the underlying wavelet. On the other hand, most spatial-based algorithms output much higher quality denoising image with less artifacts. However, they are usually too computationally demanding. In order to reduce the computational cost, we develop an efficient joint bilateral filter by using the wavelet denoising result rather than directly processing the noisy image in the spatial domain. This filter could suppress the noise while preserve image details with small computational cost. Extension to color image denoising is also presented. We compare our denoising algorithm with other denoising techniques in terms of PSNR and visual quality. The experimental results indicate that our algorithm is competitive with other denoising techniques.     

基于尺度乘积和相关性的图像去噪

为了去除图像的噪声,提出了一种基于尺度乘积和尺度相关性的平稳小波交换图像去噪方法.在传统小波系数估计的基础上,考虑到尺度间的相关性,利用不同尺度小波系数形成的系数向量,通过线性最小均方误差估计小波系数,获得各个高频子带的估计系数.针对单纯利用尺度间相关性去噪造成的图像边缘失真问题,在不同尺度小波系数形成的系数向量中引入了小波系数乘积,不但可以较好区分边缘信息和噪声信息,而且提高了原有算法的去噪能力.仿真结果表明,该图像去噪算法能有效去除图像噪声,较好保持图像边缘,在峰值信噪比和视觉质量上都有较大提高.     

Denoising by singularity detection

A new algorithm for noise reduction using the wavelet transform is proposed. Similar to Mallat's (1992) wavelet transform modulus maxima denoising approach, we estimate the regularity of a signal from the evolution of its wavelet transform coefficients across scales. However, we do not perform maxima detection and processing; therefore, complicated reconstruction is avoided. Instead, the local regularities of a signal are estimated by computing the sum of the modulus of its wavelet coefficients inside the corresponding “cone of influence”, and the coefficients that correspond to the regular part of the signal for reconstruction are selected. The algorithm gives an improved denoising result, as compared with the previous approaches, in terms of mean squared error and visual quality. The new denoising algorithm is also invariant to translation. It does not introduce spurious oscillations and requires very little a priori information of the signal or noise. Besides, we extend the method to two dimensions to estimate the regularity of an image by computing the sum of the modulus of its wavelet coefficients inside the so-called “directional cone of influence”. The denoising technique is applied to tomographic image reconstruction, where the improved performance of the new approach can clearly be observed     

Adaptive image denoising using scale and space consistency

This paper proposes a new method for image denoising with edge preservation, based on image multiresolution decomposition by a redundant wavelet transform. In our approach, edges are implicitly located and preserved in the wavelet domain, whilst image noise is filtered out. At each resolution level, the image edges are estimated by gradient magnitudes (obtained from the wavelet coefficients), which are modeled probabilistically, and a shrinkage function is assembled based on the model obtained. Joint use of space and scale consistency is applied for better preservation of edges. The shrinkage functions are combined to preserve edges that appear simultaneously at several resolutions, and geometric constraints are applied to preserve edges that are not isolated. The proposed technique produces a filtered version of the original image, where homogeneous regions appear separated by well-defined edges. Possible applications include image presegmentation, and image denoising.     

一种小波域与空域相结合的图像滤波方法

利用小波阈值去噪方法和传统空间域Lee滤波的特点,提出了一种图像去噪的的组合滤波方案。首先在小波域对图像阈值去噪,得到预去噪图像;再在空间域上利用自适应Wiener滤波器进一步提高恢复图像的精度。为了保证小波域和空间域两种算法之间的匹配,对预去噪图像中残留噪声的分布进行了研究,对其噪声方差估计做了改进,提出了一种估计噪声方差的近似最优公式。仿真实验表明,与单独的在小波域或空域去噪相比,该方法的均方误差和信噪比指标均得到了改善。     

基于尺度间和尺度内相关性的平稳小波红外图像去噪

提出了一种基于尺度间和尺度内相关性的平稳小波变换红外图像去噪方法.首先对红外图像进行离散平稳小波变换,分别对各个分解层的高频子带,利用不同尺度小波系数形成的系数向量,通过线性最小均方误差估计小波系数,获得各个高频子带的估计系数,再利用小波系数尺度内的邻域相关性对小波系数进行修正,然后通过小波反变换得到去噪图像.仿真结果表明,考虑尺度间和尺度内相关性的平稳小波红外图像去噪算法能有效地去除红外图像噪声,在信噪比和视觉质量上要优于单纯考虑尺度间相关性的去噪方法.