Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 11, Issue 4, 1850017(2018)

A novel denoising framework for cerenkov luminescence imaging based on spatial information improved clustering and curvature-driven diffusion

Xin Cao1... Yi Sun1, Fei Kang2, Lin Wang1, Huangjian Yi1, Fengjun Zhao1, Linzhi Su1,* and Xiaowei He1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710069, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, P. R. China
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    With widely availed clinically used radionuclides, Cerenkov luminescence imaging (CLI) has become a potential tool in the field of optical molecular imaging. However, the impulse noises introduced by high-energy gamma rays that are generated during the decay of radionuclide reduce the image quality significantly, which affects the accuracy of quantitative analysis, as well as the three-dimensional reconstruction. In this work, a novel denoising framework based on fuzzy clustering and curvature-driven diffusion (CDD) is proposed to remove this kind of impulse noises. To improve the accuracy, the Fuzzy Local Information C-Means algorithm, where spatial information is evolved, is used. We evaluate the performance of the proposed framework systematically with a series of experiments, and the corresponding results demonstrate a better denoising effect than those from the commonly used median filter method. We hope this work may provide a useful data pre-processing tool for CLI and its following studies.

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    Xin Cao, Yi Sun, Fei Kang, Lin Wang, Huangjian Yi, Fengjun Zhao, Linzhi Su, Xiaowei He. A novel denoising framework for cerenkov luminescence imaging based on spatial information improved clustering and curvature-driven diffusion[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2018, 11(4): 1850017

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 29, 2017

    Accepted: Mar. 18, 2018

    Published Online: Oct. 6, 2018

    The Author Email: Su Linzhi (sulinzhi029@163.com)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545818500177

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