SCRDN: Residual dense network with self-calibrated convolutions for low dose CT image denoising

Limin Ma, Hengzhi Xue, Guangtong Yang, Zitong Zhang, Chen Li, Yudong Yao, Yueyang Teng

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Abstract

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can reduce the X-ray radiation dose that the patients receive, up to 86%, which decreases the potential hazards and expands its application scope. However, LDCT images contain a lot of noise and artifacts, which brings great difficulties to doctors’ diagnosis. Recently, methods based on deep learning have obtained great success in noise reducing of LDCT images. In this paper, we propose a novel residual dense network with self-calibrated convolution (SCRDN) for LDCT images denoising. Compared with the basic CNN, SCRDN includes jump connection, dense connection and self-calibrated convolution instead of traditional convolution. It makes full use of the hierarchical features of original images to obtain the reconstructed images with more details. It also obtains a larger receptive field without introducing new parameters. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve performance improvements over most state-of-the-art methods used in CT denoising.

Original languageEnglish
Article number167625
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume1045
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2023

Keywords

  • Dense network
  • Image denoising
  • Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT)
  • Self-calibrated convolution

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