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ArticleBMC medical imaging2019

An automatic restoration framework based on GPU-accelerated collateral filtering in brain MR images.

Herng-Hua Chang, Cheng-Yuan Li

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Article in BMC medical imaging, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Herng-Hua ChangComputational Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (CBEL), Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Road, Daan, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan. herbertchang@ntu.edu.tw.ORCID 0000-0002-5234-5794
Cheng-Yuan LiComputational Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (CBEL), Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Road, Daan, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Taiwan University · TW

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Abstract

backgroundImage restoration is one of the fundamental and essential tasks within image processing. In medical imaging, developing an effective algorithm that can automatically remove random noise in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is challenging. The collateral filter has been shown a more powerful algorithm than many existing methods. However, the computation of the collateral filter is more time-consuming and the selection of the filter parameters is also laborious. This paper proposes an automatic noise removal system based on the accelerated collateral filter for brain MR images.

methodsTo solve these problems, we first accelerated the collateral filter with parallel computing using the graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. We adopted the compute unified device architecture (CUDA), an application programming interface for the GPU by NVIDIA, to hasten the computation. Subsequently, the optimal filter parameters were selected and the automation was achieved by artificial neural networks. Specifically, an artificial neural network system associated with image feature analysis was adopted to establish the automatic image restoration framework. The best feature combination was selected by the paired t-test and the sequential forward floating selection (SFFS) methods.

resultsExperimental results indicated that not only did the proposed automatic image restoration algorithm perform dramatically faster than the traditional collateral filter, but it also effectively removed the noise in a wide variety of brain MR images. A speed up gain of 34 was attained to process an MR image, which completed within 0.1 s. Representative illustrations of brain tumor images demonstrated the capability of identifying lesion boundaries, which outperformed many existing methods.

conclusionsWe believe that our accelerated and automated restoration framework is promising for achieving robust filtering in many brain MR image restoration applications.

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AlgorithmsBrainEntropyHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingCollateral filterGPUImage featureMRINeural networksParallel computing

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