Research Article
Magnetic Resonance Image Denoising Algorithm Based on
Cartoon, Texture, and Residual Parts
Yanqiu Zeng ,
1
Baocan Zhang,
1
Wei Zhao ,
1
Shixiao Xiao,
1
Guokai Zhang ,
2
Haiping Ren ,
3
Wenbing Zhao,
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Yonghong Peng ,
5
Yutian Xiao,
6
Yiwen Lu,
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Yongshuo Zong,
7
and Yimin Ding
8
1
Chengyi University College, Jimei University, Xiamen, China
2
School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
3
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, China
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
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Faculty of Computer Science, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
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School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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Department of Computer Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Guokai Zhang; zhangguokai_01@163.com and Haiping Ren; chinarhp@163.com
Received 8 February 2020; Accepted 6 March 2020; Published 1 April 2020
Guest Editor: Yi-Zhang Jiang
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Magnetic resonance (MR) images are often contaminated by Gaussian noise, an electronic noise caused by the random thermal
motion of electronic components, which reduces the quality and reliability of the images. is paper puts forward a hybrid
denoisingalgorithmforMRimagesbasedontwosparselyrepresentedmorphologicalcomponentsandoneresidualpart.Tobegin
with,decomposeanoisyMRimageintothecartoon,texture,andresidualpartsbyMCA,andtheneachpartisdenoisedbyusing
Wiener filter, wavelet hard threshold, and wavelet soft threshold, respectively. Finally, stack up all the denoised subimages to
obtain the denoised MR image. e experimental results show that the proposed method has significantly better performance in
terms of mean square error and peak signal-to-noise ratio than each method alone.
1. Introduction
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the advanced
imageological examination methods for modern medicine.
MRI uses powerful magnets and computer-generated radio
waves instead of injected contrast agents to create multidi-
mensional images of human organs and tissues. It does not
damage the body with ionizing radiation, so it is safer than
emission computed tomography (ECT). For this reason, MRI
is frequently used for imaging tests of the brain and spinal
cord. However, compared with computed tomography (CT),
MRimagehasalowerspatialresolution,longerscantime,and
more artifacts. e longer the scanning time, the greater the
thermal noise (a kind of Gaussian noise). Besides, medical
images are always polluted by various noises during
collection, transmission, and storage. e magnitude of MRI
data in the presence of noise generally follows a Rician dis-
tribution if acquired with single-coil systems [1]. Also, the
Gaussian distribution can approximate Rician noise in high
SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) regions [2]. Quite often, noise
affecting the pixels in an image is Gaussian in nature and
uniformly deters information pixels in the image [3]. MR
image denoising, as an essential preprocessing step for MRI
data processing, has been a hot topic in the related area.
Many scholars and researchers have performed much
workonimagedenoising.Variousimagedenoisingmethods
can be broadly classified as five categories: spatial domain
filtering, transform domain filtering, methods in other
domains, sparse representation and dictionary learning
methods, and hybrid methods [3].
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Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Volume 2020, Article ID 1405647, 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1405647