Investigation into image quality difference between total variation and nonlinear sparsifying transform based compressed sensing

Jian Dong; Hiroyuki Kudo

doi:10.1117/12.2255081

9 March 2017 Investigation into image quality difference between total variation and nonlinear sparsifying transform based compressed sensing

Jian Dong, Hiroyuki Kudo

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Proceedings Volume 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging; 1013231 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255081
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Compressed sensing (CS) is attracting growing concerns in sparse-view computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction. The most standard approach of CS is total variation (TV) minimization. However, images reconstructed by TV usually suffer from distortions, especially in reconstruction of practical CT images, in forms of patchy artifacts, improper serrate edges and loss of image textures. Most existing CS approaches including TV achieve image quality improvement by applying linear transforms to object image, but linear transforms usually fail to take discontinuities into account, such as edges and image textures, which is considered to be the key reason for image distortions. Actually, discussions on nonlinear filter based image processing has a long history, leading us to clarify that the nonlinear filters yield better results compared to linear filters in image processing task such as denoising. Median root prior was first utilized by Alenius as nonlinear transform in CT image reconstruction, with significant gains obtained. Subsequently, Zhang developed the application of nonlocal means-based CS. A fact is gradually becoming clear that the nonlinear transform based CS has superiority in improving image quality compared with the linear transform based CS. However, it has not been clearly concluded in any previous paper within the scope of our knowledge. In this work, we investigated the image quality differences between the conventional TV minimization and nonlinear sparsifying transform based CS, as well as image quality differences among different nonlinear sparisying transform based CSs in sparse-view CT image reconstruction. Additionally, we accelerated the implementation of nonlinear sparsifying transform based CS algorithm.

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Jian Dong and Hiroyuki Kudo "Investigation into image quality difference between total variation and nonlinear sparsifying transform based compressed sensing", Proc. SPIE 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging, 1013231 (9 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255081

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Image quality

Nonlinear filtering

Digital filtering

CT reconstruction

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