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Abstract

In the COVID-19 era, it may be possible to detect COVID-19 by detecting lesions in scans, i.e., ground-glass opacity, consolidation, nodules, reticulation, or thickened interlobular septa, and lesion distribution, but it becomes difficult at the early stages due to embryonic lesion growth and the restricted use of high dose X-ray detection. Therefore, it may be possible for a patient who may or may not be infected with coronavirus to consider using high-dose X-rays, but it may cause more risks. Conclusively, using low-dose X-rays to produce CT scans and then adding a rigorous denoising algorithm to the scans is the best way to protect patients from side effects or a high dose X-ray when diagnosing coronavirus involvement early. Hence, this paper proposed a denoising scheme using an NLM filter and method noise thresholding concept in the shearlet domain for noisy COVID CT images. Low-dose COVID CT images can be further utilized. The results and comparative analysis showed that, in most cases, the proposed method gives better outcomes than existing ones.

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Title
Noise Suppression and Edge Preservation for Low-Dose COVID-19 CT Images Using NLM and Method Noise Thresholding in Shearlet Domain
Author
Diwakar, Manoj 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Singh, Prabhishek 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Swarup, Chetan 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bajal, Eshan 4 ; Jindal, Muskan 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vinayakumar Ravi 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Singh, Kamred Udham 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Singh, Teekam 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun 248007, India 
 School of Computer Science Engineering and Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201310, India 
 Department of Basic Science, College of Science and Theoretical Studies, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh-Male Campus, Riyadh 13316, Saudi Arabia 
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida 201303, India 
 Center for Artificial Intelligence, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Khobar 34754, Saudi Arabia 
 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan 
 School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India 
First page
2766
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20754418
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2748279537
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.