Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 2, 21014(2020)

Medical-Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Method Based on Residual Channel Attention Network

Liu Kewen1,2, Ma Yuan1,2, Xiong Hongxia3、*, Yan Zejun4, Zhou Zhijun5, Liu Chaoyang6, Fang Panpan1,2, Li Xiaojun1,2, and Chen Yalei1,2
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
  • 2Hubei Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
  • 3School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
  • 4Department of Urology, Ningbo First Hospital, Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine of Urological Diseases in Ningbo, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, China
  • 5Department of Urology, the First People''s Hospital of Tianmen, Tianmen, Hubei 431700, China
  • 6State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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    To resolve the fuzzy problem caused by the lack of high-frequency information in the super-resolution reconstruction of medical images, this study proposes a medical-image super-resolution reconstruction method based on a residual channel attention network. The proposed method removes the batch normalization layer from the basic unit of the residual network (ResNet) to stabilize its training. Furthermore, it removes the scaling layer and adds a channel-attention block that focuses the ResNet on channels with abundant high-frequency details. The feature maps are subsampled using a sub-pixel convolution layer,obtaining the final high-resolution images. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves objective evaluation indexes such as the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index compared with mainstream image super-resolution methods. The obtained medical images are sufficiently detailed with high visual quality.

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    Liu Kewen, Ma Yuan, Xiong Hongxia, Yan Zejun, Zhou Zhijun, Liu Chaoyang, Fang Panpan, Li Xiaojun, Chen Yalei. Medical-Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Method Based on Residual Channel Attention Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(2): 21014

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jun. 4, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 3, 2020

    The Author Email: Hongxia Xiong (xionghongxia@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.021014

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