Abstract

In order to improve the quality of low-dose computational tomography (CT) images, the paper proposes an improved image denoising approach based on WGAN-gp with Wasserstein distance. For improving the training and the convergence efficiency, the given method introduces the gradient penalty term to WGAN network. The novel perceptual loss is introduced to make the texture information of the low-dose images sensitive to the diagnostician eye. The experimental results show that compared with the state-of-art methods, the time complexity is reduced, and the visual quality of low-dose CT images is significantly improved.

Details

Title
Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Based on Improved WGAN-gp
Author
Li, Xiaoli; Ye, Chao; Yan, Yujia; Du, Zhenlong
Pages
75-85
Section
ARTICLE
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Tech Science Press
ISSN
25790110
e-ISSN
25790129
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2395889259
Copyright
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