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A Multi Resolution Based Guided Filter Using Fuzzy Logic for X-Ray Medical Images

방사선 의료영상 잡음제거를 위한 퍼지논리 활용 다해상도 기반 유도필터

  • Received : 2014.02.19
  • Accepted : 2014.07.28
  • Published : 2014.08.25
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Abstract

Noise in biomedical X-ray image degrades the quality so that it might causes to decrease the accuracy of diagnosis. Especially the noise reduction techniques is quite essential for low-dose biomedical X-ray images obtained from low radiation power in order to protect patients, because their noise level is usually high to well discriminate objects. This paper proposes an efficient method to remove the noise in low-dose X-ray images while preserving the edges with diverse resolutions. In the proposed method, a noisy image is at first decomposed into several images with different resolutions in pyramidal representation, then the stable map of edge confidence is obtained from each of analyzed image using a fuzzy logic-based edge detector. This map is used to adaptively determine the parameter for guided filters, which eliminate the noise while preserving edges in the corresponding image. The filtered images in the pyramid are extended and synthesized into a resulted image using interpolation technique. The superiority of proposed method compared to the median, bilateral, and guided filters has been experimentally shown in terms of noise removal and edge preserving properties.

방사선 의료영상의 잡음은 화질을 떨어트리며, 진단의 정확성을 낮추는 원인이 된다. 특별히 환자보호를 목적으로 방사선 피폭량을 줄인 저선량 의료영상은 잡음 수준이 높아 잡음 제거 기술이 더욱 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 해상도에서 경계선 특징을 보존하며 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하는 잡음제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 영상을 여러 개의 해상도의 피라미드 영상으로 분해하고, 각각의 분해된 영상으로 부터 퍼지 규칙기반 경계선 검출기를 통하여 안정된 경계 신뢰도 맵을 얻는다. 이들 다해상도 영상의 경계 신뢰도 맵은 유도 필터의 파라메터를 적응적으로 결정하며, 이를 이용하여 해당 영상의 경계를 보전하며 잡음을 제거한다. 이렇게 잡음이 제거된 다해상도 영상은 보간법을 통하여 확장되고 합성되어 결과영상을 얻는다. 제안된 방법은 미디언 필터, 양방향 필터, 유도 필터 등과 비교하여 경계선을 잘 보존하며, 잡음제거 능력이 우수함을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

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