Complex diffusion regularisation-based low dose CT image reconstruction Online publication date: Sun, 07-Feb-2021
by Kavkirat Kaur; Shailendra Tiwari
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Vol. 35, No. 1, 2021
Abstract: There is a high demand for a framework that can eliminate the Gaussian noise and provide high-quality images in the case of low-dose radiation in computed tomography (CT). This paper presents a new statistical image reconstruction (SIR) algorithm for this purpose. The proposed framework uses a combination of data fidelity and regularisation terms. The data fidelity term is derived using maximum likelihood expectation maximisation (MLEM) algorithm. After that, a complex diffusion (CD) filter is applied as a regularisation term into the proposed framework that minimises the noise while preserving the edges along with the fine structure information in the reconstructed image. The proposed model has been evaluated on both simulated and real standard thorax phantoms. The results are compared with the other standard methods and it is observed that the proposed model has many desirable advantages such as better noise robustness, less computational cost, enhanced denoising effect.
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