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ArticleBiomedical optics express2022

ERA-WGAT: Edge-enhanced residual autoencoder with a window-based graph attention convolutional network for low-dose CT denoising.

Han Liu, Peixi Liao, Hu Chen, Yi Zhang

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Han LiuCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-0171
Peixi LiaoDepartment of Scientific Research and Education, The Sixth People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610051, China.
Hu ChenCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9300-6572
Yi ZhangCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.

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Abstract

Computed tomography (CT) has become a powerful tool for medical diagnosis. However, minimizing X-ray radiation risk for the patient poses significant challenges to obtain suitable low dose CT images. Although various low-dose CT methods using deep learning techniques have produced impressive results, convolutional neural network based methods focus more on local information and hence are very limited for non-local information extraction. This paper proposes ERA-WGAT, a residual autoencoder incorporating an edge enhancement module that performs convolution with eight types of learnable operators providing rich edge information and a window-based graph attention convolutional network that combines static and dynamic attention modules to explore non-local self-similarity. We use the compound loss function that combines MSE loss and multi-scale perceptual loss to mitigate the over-smoothing problem. Compared with current low-dose CT denoising methods, ERA-WGAT confirmed superior noise suppression and perceived image quality.

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