Image Noise Removal Using Principle of Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance

Pandey, Anil Kumar; Sharma, ParamDev; Sharma, Sidharth; Sarkar, Kaushik; Sharma, Anubhuti; Kumar, Rajeev; Bal, Chandrashekhar

doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2274-3_56

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“…[ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ] SSR has already been used in image processing. [ 15 ] However, none of the above cited studies has addressed the issue of the detection of abdomino-pelvic tumor on whole body PET/CT images. In this way, the current study explores a new possibility.…”

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Development and validation of the suprathreshold stochastic resonance-based image processing method for the detection of abdomino-pelvic tumor on PET/CT scans

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Purpose:The detection of abdomino-pelvic tumors embedded in or nearby radioactive urine containing 18F-FDG activity is a challenging task on PET/CT scan. In this study, we propose and validate the suprathreshold stochastic resonance-based image processing method for the detection of these tumors.Methods:The method consists of the addition of noise to the input image, and then thresholding it that creates one frame of intermediate image. One hundred such frames were generated and averaged to get the final image. The method was implemented using MATLAB R2013b on a personal computer. Noisy image was generated using random Poisson variates corresponding to each pixel of the input image. In order to verify the method, 30 sets of pre-diuretic and its corresponding post-diuretic PET/CT scan images (25 tumor images and 5 control images with no tumor) were included. For each sets of pre-diuretic image (input image), 26 images (at threshold values equal to mean counts multiplied by a constant factor ranging from 1.0 to 2.6 with increment step of 0.1) were created and visually inspected, and the image that most closely matched with the gold standard (corresponding post-diuretic image) was selected as the final output image. These images were further evaluated by two nuclear medicine physicians.Results:In 22 out of 25 images, tumor was successfully detected. In five control images, no false positives were reported. Thus, the empirical probability of detection of abdomino-pelvic tumors evaluates to 0.88.Conclusion:The proposed method was able to detect abdomino-pelvic tumors on pre-diuretic PET/CT scan with a high probability of success and no false positives.

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