期刊
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 71, 期 3, 页码 1272-1284出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24728
关键词
diffusion-weighted imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; Rician distribution; noncentral distribution; low-rank approximation; edge constraints
资金
- NIH [NIH-P41-EB015904, NIH-P41-EB001977, NIH-1RO1-EB013695]
- Beckman Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PurposeTo improve signal-to-noise ratio for diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images. MethodsA new method is proposed for denoising diffusion-weighted magnitude images. The proposed method formulates the denoising problem as an maximum a posteriori} estimation problem based on Rician/noncentral likelihood models, incorporating an edge prior and a low-rank model. The resulting optimization problem is solved efficiently using a half-quadratic method with an alternating minimization scheme. ResultsThe performance of the proposed method has been validated using simulated and experimental data. Diffusion-weighted images and noisy data were simulated based on the diffusion tensor imaging model and Rician/noncentral distributions. The simulation study (with known gold standard) shows substantial improvements in single-to-noise ratio and diffusion tensor estimation after denoising. In vivo diffusion imaging data at different b-values were acquired. Based on the experimental data, qualitative improvement in image quality and quantitative improvement in diffusion tensor estimation were demonstrated. Additionally, the proposed method is shown to outperform one of the state-of-the-art nonlocal means-based denoising algorithms, both qualitatively and quantitatively. ConclusionThe single-to-noise ratio of diffusion-weighted images can be effectively improved with rank and edge constraints, resulting in an improvement in diffusion parameter estimation accuracy. Magn Reson Med 71:1272-1284, 2014. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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