scholarly journals Comparative analysis of Median filter family for Removing High-Density Noise in Magnetic Resonance Images

2019 ◽  
pp. 2246-2256
Author(s):  
Nada Jasim Habeeb
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Impulse Noise ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Images ◽  
High Density ◽  
Switching Median Filter ◽  
Filter Noise

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a medical indicative test utilized for taking images of the tissue points of interest of the human body. During image acquisition, MRI images can be damaged by many noise signals such as impulse noise. One reason for this noise may be a sharp or sudden disturbance in the image signal. The removal of impulse noise is one of the real difficulties. As of late, numerous image de-noising methods were produced for removing the impulse noise from images. Comparative analysis of known and modern methods of median filter family is presented in this paper. These filters can be categorized as follows: Standard Median Filter; Adaptive Median Filter; Progressive Switching Median Filter; Noise Adaptive Fuzzy Switching Median Filter; and Different Applied Median Filter. The de-noising technique performance for each one is evaluated and compared using Peak Signal Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity index Metric, and Beta metric as quantitative metrics.  The experimental results showed that the latest de-noising technique, Different Applied Median Filter (DAMF), produced better results in removing impulse noise compared with the other de-noising techniques. However, this filter produced de-noised image with nonlinear edges in high-density noise. As a result, noise removal from images is one of the low-level images processing which is considered as a first step in many image applications. Therefore, the efficiency of any image processed depends on the efficiency of noise removal technique.

scholarly journals High Density Impulse Noise Removal using Advanced Median Filter for Preserving Image Quality Metrics

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11909-11914
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Impulse Noise ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Quality Metrics ◽  
High Density ◽  
Image Quality Metrics ◽  
Neighboring Pixel ◽  
Salt And Pepper

In this work, a procedure to remove the high density salt and pepper noise from a corrupted image is developed and to compare the output image with the original image through the image quality metrics. As a common practice the corrupted pixels are replaced by the median of neighboring pixel values by considering a constant number of neighboring pixels. But in this proposed method the corrupted pixels are identified and are replaced by the median of the neighboring pixel values which are adjustable, to preserve and improve the image quality metrics. This method makes a comparison between the corrupted and uncorrupted pixels and performs the median filtering process only on the corrupted ones. In this work a 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 square neighborhood are used. The output images are observed with low neighborhood as well as high neighborhood pixel values. The calculation of PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and MSE (Mean square error) value for each dimension with different percentages are considered for the comparative analysis

Adaptive Trimmed Median Filter for Impulse Noise Detection and Removal with an Application to Mammogram Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050032
Author(s):  
Rubul Kumar Bania ◽  
Anindya Halder
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Impulse Noise ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Quantitative Indices ◽  
Mammogram Images

Mammography imaging is one of the most widely used techniques for breast cancer screening and analysis of abnormalities. However, due to some technical difficulties during the time of acquisition and digital storage of mammogram images, impulse noise may be present. Therefore, detection and removals of impulse noise from the mammogram images are very essential for early detection and further diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, a novel adaptive trimmed median filter (ATMF) is proposed for impulse noise (salt & pepper (SNP)) detection and removal with an application to mammogram image denoising. Automatic switching mechanism for updating the Window of Interest (WoI) size from ([Formula: see text]) to ([Formula: see text]) or ([Formula: see text]) is performed. The proposed method is applied on publicly available mammogram images corrupted with varying SNP noise densities in the range 5%–90%. The performance of the proposed method is measured by various quantitative indices like peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), image enhancement factor (IEF) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM). The comparative analysis of the proposed method is done with respect to other state-of-the-art noise removal methods viz., standard median filter (SMF), decision based median filter (DMF), decision based unsymmetric trimmed median filter (DUTMF), modified decision based unsymmetric trimmed median filter (MDUTMF) and decision based unsymmetric trimmed winsorized mean filter (DUTWMF). The superiority of the proposed method over other compared methods is well evident from the experimental results in terms of the quantitative indices (viz., PSNR, IEF and SSIM) and also from the visual quality of the denoised images. Paired t-test confirms the statistical significance of the higher PSNR values achieved by the proposed method as compared to the other counterpart techniques. The proposed method turned out to be very effective in denoising both high and low density noises present in (mammogram) images.

scholarly journals Adaptive Switching Median Filter for Impulse Noise Removal Based on Support Vector Machines

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-886
Author(s):  
Dae-Geun Lee ◽  
Min-Jae Park ◽  
Jeong-Ok Kim ◽  
Do-Yoon Kim ◽  
Dong-Wook Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machines ◽  
Impulse Noise ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Impulse Noise Removal ◽  
Switching Median Filter ◽  
Vector Machines

Discrete Total Variation-Based Non-Local Means Filter for Denoising Magnetic Resonance Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Nikita Joshi ◽  
Sarika Jain ◽  
Amit Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Total Variation ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Images ◽  
Variation Method ◽  
Mr Images ◽  
Denoising Method ◽  
Local Means ◽  
Non Local

Magnetic resonance (MR) images suffer from noise introduced by various sources. Due to this noise, diagnosis remains inaccurate. Thus, removal of noise becomes a very important task when dealing with MR images. In this paper, a denoising method has been discussed that makes use of non-local means filter and discrete total variation method. The proposed approach has been compared with other noise removal techniques like non-local means filter, anisotropic diffusion, total variation, and discrete total variation method, and it proves to be effective in reducing noise. The performance of various denoising methods is compared on basis of metrics such as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), universal image quality index (UQI), and structure similarity index (SSIM) values. This method has been tested for various noise levels, and it outperformed other existing noise removal techniques, without blurring the image.

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