Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 8, 0817001(2025)

Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Based on Error Modulation Module

Xiaohe Zhao1、*, Ping Chen2, and Jinxiao Pan2
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  • 1School of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi , China
  • 2School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi , China
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    To address the issue of degraded image quality in low-dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) caused by significantly reduced ionizing radiation doses in current denoising methods, this paper proposes an enhanced diffusion model based on the U-Net network. The model introduces an error modulation module to resolve the problem of error accumulation during sampling. Additionally, a composite loss function that combines L1, adversarial, and self-supervised multiscale perceptual losses is proposed. This composite loss function is designed to simultaneously suppress image noise and preserve details, thereby overcoming the oversmoothing phenomenon. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves an improvement of 1.36 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio and 0.02 in structural similarity index, effectively suppressing noise while better preserving image details.

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    Xiaohe Zhao, Ping Chen, Jinxiao Pan. Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Based on Error Modulation Module[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(8): 0817001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical Optics and Biotechnology

    Received: Aug. 7, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 24, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 24, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241821

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241821

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