Title
A BIAS-REDUCING LOSS FUNCTION FOR CT IMAGE DENOISING
Abstract
There is growing interest in the use of deep neural network (DNN) based image denoising to reduce patient's X-ray dosage in medical computed tomography (CT). An effective denoiser must remove noise while maintaining the texture and detail. Commonly used mean squared error (MSE) loss functions in the DNN training weight errors due to bias and variance equally. However, the error due to bias is often more egregious since it results in loss of image texture and detail. In this paper, we present a novel approach to designing a loss function that penalizes variance and bias differently. Our proposed bias-reducing loss function allows us to train a DNN denoiser so that the amount of texture and detail retained can be controlled through a user adjustable parameter. Our experiments verify that the proposed loss function enhances the texture and detail in denoised images with only a slight increase in the MSE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413855
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Low-dose CT, denoising, weighted mean squared error, bias reduction, deep neural networks
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Madhuri Nagare100.34
Roman Melnyk200.34
Obaidullah Rahman300.34
Ken D. Sauer457690.54
Charles A. Bouman52740473.62