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  • Title: Denoising human cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images using sparse representation combined with segmentation.
    Author: Bao LJ, Zhu YM, Liu WY, Croisille P, Pu ZB, Robini M, Magnin IE.
    Journal: Phys Med Biol; 2009 Mar 21; 54(6):1435-56. PubMed ID: 19218737.
    Abstract:
    Cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) is noise sensitive, and the noise can induce numerous systematic errors in subsequent parameter calculations. This paper proposes a sparse representation-based method for denoising cardiac DT-MRI images. The method first generates a dictionary of multiple bases according to the features of the observed image. A segmentation algorithm based on nonstationary degree detector is then introduced to make the selection of atoms in the dictionary adapted to the image's features. The denoising is achieved by gradually approximating the underlying image using the atoms selected from the generated dictionary. The results on both simulated image and real cardiac DT-MRI images from ex vivo human hearts show that the proposed denoising method performs better than conventional denoising techniques by preserving image contrast and fine structures.
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