CT image restoration method via total variation and L 0 smoothing filter
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Hai Yin
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Wei Yu
Abstract
In X-ray CT imaging, there are some cases where the obtained CT images have serious ring artifacts and noise, and these degraded CT images seriously affect the quality of clinical diagnosis. Thus, developing an effective method that can simultaneously suppress ring artifacts and noise is of great importance. Total variation (TV) is a famous prior regularization for image denoising in the image processing field, however, for degraded CT images, it can suppress the noise but fail to reduce the ring artifacts. To address this issue, the
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 62371184
Award Identifier / Grant number: 61801086
Funding statement: This work was partially funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62371184 and No. 61801086), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (No. cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0345), the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (No. KJQN202000534), and the National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (No. 202110927008). The authors also thank Guangzhou Huaduan Technology co., LTD for providing real data for CT reconstruction.
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