Single Value Decomposition to Maximize the Signal-to-Noise Ratio on Digital Image

Author(s):  
Miguel Telles Jr ◽  
Antonio Rosa ◽  
Paulo Quintiliano
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Latifah Listyalina ◽  
Yudianingsih Yudianingsih ◽  
Dhimas Arief Dharmawan

Image processing is a technical term useful for modifying images in various ways. In medicine, image processing has a vital role. One example of images in the medical world, namely retinal images, can be obtained from a fundus camera. The retina image is useful in the detection of diabetic retinopathy. In general, direct observation of diabetic retinopathy is conducted by a doctor on the retinal image. The weakness of this method is the slow handling of the disease. For this reason, a computer system is required to help doctors detect diabetes retinopathy quickly and accurately. This system involves a series of digital image processing techniques that can process retinal images into good quality images. In this research, a method to improve the quality of retinal images was designed by comparing the methods for adjusting histogram equalization, contrast stretching, and increasing brightness. The performance of the three methods was evaluated using Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). Low MSE values and high PSNR and SNR values indicated that the image had good quality. The results of the study revealed that the image was the best to use, as evidenced by the lowest MSE values and the highest SNR and PSNR values compared to other techniques. It indicated that adaptive histogram equalization techniques could improve image quality while maintaining its information.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Gong

This dissertation describes ultrasound algorithms developed for synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging during the transmission and the image reconstruction stages. Images generated using these algorithms demonstrate image quality enhancement both theoretically and experimentally. The advanced algorithms also improve the application of STA imaging. Due to the single element transmission pattern, the low signal-to-noise ratio is a major limitation for STA imaging. A delay-encoded transmission scheme (DE-STA) was designed in this dissertation to encode all the transmissions. The decoded RF signals were equivalent to the standard STA signals, but with a higher SNR. Improved image qualities were observed under DE-STA transmission in terms of lateral resolution (+28%), peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR, +7 dB) and target contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR, +360%) compared to those acquired with the standard STA mode. The stability of DE-STA was analyzed and verified under various noise levels by the special distribution of the singular values of the encoding matrix through singular value decomposition (SVD) (i.e. all the singular values were the same except for the first one and the last one). A more efficient decoding process was also derived based on pseudo-inversion (PI) and the computation complexity was reduced by 2/3. Speckle and undesired sidelobe signals can reduce the lesion CNR and detectability in ultrasound images. Typically, the CNR can be increased by spatial compounding (SC) or frequency compounding (FC) during reconstruction. We proposed methods to implement a 2-dimentional (2-D) aperture domain filter in the SC/FC processes, referred to as filtered spatial compounding (FSC) and filtered frequency compounding (FFC), for synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging. Both techniques reduced the sidelobe interference and provided improved lesion CNR. Consequently, the lesion signal-to-noise ratio (lSNR) in FSC and FFC increased (up to +130%), compared to that in the standard delay-and-sum (DAS) method. This dissertation investigates all these proposed advanced ultrasound algorithms, with the end goal of implementing these methods in STA imaging to extend its application in clinic.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256700
Author(s):  
Olivia W. Stanley ◽  
Ravi S. Menon ◽  
L. Martyn Klassen

Magnetic resonance imaging radio frequency arrays are composed of multiple receive coils that have their signals combined to form an image. Combination requires an estimate of the radio frequency coil sensitivities to align signal phases and prevent destructive interference. At lower fields this can be accomplished using a uniform physical reference coil. However, at higher fields, uniform volume coils are lacking and, when available, suffer from regions of low receive sensitivity that result in poor sensitivity estimation and combination. Several approaches exist that do not require a physical reference coil but require manual intervention, specific prescans, or must be completed post-acquisition. This makes these methods impractical for large multi-volume datasets such as those collected for novel types of functional MRI or quantitative susceptibility mapping, where magnitude and phase are important. This pilot study proposes a fitted SVD method which utilizes existing combination methods to create a phase sensitive combination method targeted at large multi-volume datasets. This method uses any multi-image prescan to calculate the relative receive sensitivities using voxel-wise singular value decomposition. These relative sensitivities are fitted to the solid harmonics using an iterative least squares fitting algorithm. Fits of the relative sensitivities are used to align the phases of the receive coils and improve combination in subsequent acquisitions during the imaging session. This method is compared against existing approaches in the human brain at 7 Tesla by examining the combined data for the presence of singularities and changes in phase signal-to-noise ratio. Two additional applications of the method are also explored, using the fitted SVD method in an asymmetrical coil and in a case with subject motion. The fitted SVD method produces singularity-free images and recovers between 95–100% of the phase signal-to-noise ratio depending on the prescan data resolution. Using solid harmonic fitting to interpolate singular value decomposition derived receive sensitivities from existing prescans allows the fitted SVD method to be used on all acquisitions within a session without increasing exam duration. Our fitted SVD method is able to combine imaging datasets accurately without supervision during online reconstruction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Megah Mulya ◽  
Zikry Sugiwa

Confidentiality of the message or the information is the most important and essential.  It is very influential on the party who has the valuable message when they want to exchange messages on others.  To keep the message is not known to others, the necessary security on the message.  Steganography is one technique for providing security to the message.  Steganography is a technique to hide messages in a medium, such as pictures, sounds and video.  Steganographic technique used in this study is the Least Significant Braille (LSBraille).  This technique makes use of human vision in the message on the bit value was not significant.  This study focuses on how much resistance level stego image to various image processes and measure results accuracy Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR).  From the result of the insertion of a secret message, that the level of resistance stego image is not resistant to digital image processing.  The result of the calculation of PSNR value obtained from experiments on all data samples between 51-73 db.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Gong

This dissertation describes ultrasound algorithms developed for synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging during the transmission and the image reconstruction stages. Images generated using these algorithms demonstrate image quality enhancement both theoretically and experimentally. The advanced algorithms also improve the application of STA imaging. Due to the single element transmission pattern, the low signal-to-noise ratio is a major limitation for STA imaging. A delay-encoded transmission scheme (DE-STA) was designed in this dissertation to encode all the transmissions. The decoded RF signals were equivalent to the standard STA signals, but with a higher SNR. Improved image qualities were observed under DE-STA transmission in terms of lateral resolution (+28%), peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR, +7 dB) and target contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR, +360%) compared to those acquired with the standard STA mode. The stability of DE-STA was analyzed and verified under various noise levels by the special distribution of the singular values of the encoding matrix through singular value decomposition (SVD) (i.e. all the singular values were the same except for the first one and the last one). A more efficient decoding process was also derived based on pseudo-inversion (PI) and the computation complexity was reduced by 2/3. Speckle and undesired sidelobe signals can reduce the lesion CNR and detectability in ultrasound images. Typically, the CNR can be increased by spatial compounding (SC) or frequency compounding (FC) during reconstruction. We proposed methods to implement a 2-dimentional (2-D) aperture domain filter in the SC/FC processes, referred to as filtered spatial compounding (FSC) and filtered frequency compounding (FFC), for synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging. Both techniques reduced the sidelobe interference and provided improved lesion CNR. Consequently, the lesion signal-to-noise ratio (lSNR) in FSC and FFC increased (up to +130%), compared to that in the standard delay-and-sum (DAS) method. This dissertation investigates all these proposed advanced ultrasound algorithms, with the end goal of implementing these methods in STA imaging to extend its application in clinic.


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo S. Cruz ◽  
Milton J. Porsani

ABSTRACT. The land seismic data often have low signal-to-noise ratio due, among other factors, the presence of ground roll. It is a coherent noise present in seismograms that appears as linear events... RESUMO. Os dados sísmicos terrestres geralmente apresentam baixa razão sinal-ruído devido, entre outros fatores, à presença do ground roll . Trata-se de um ruído dominado por altas amplitudes...


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Surdiyah Asriningrum ◽  
Khaerul Ansory ◽  
Putra Tri Hasan

Background: The research was analyzing digital image quality and estimation dose patient by using  Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) on Computed Radiography. SNR can be used for analyzing digital image spatial resolution and estimation dose accurately. The aims of this study to determine the influence of exposure factors on image quality and estimation dose patient.Methods: This type of research is a quantitative method with an experimental study. Direct experiments in August 2020 assessment with a sample of 9 adults posteroanterior chest photo with the average age of 20-50 years old with an average body weight of 50-69 kilograms. Results: The measurement results showed that the digital images will be analyzed by SNR, so it can be determined the optimum exposed factor of the highest SNR value and dose radiation. From the analysis, the highest SNR value at 121 kV, current 1 mAs, the lower dose radiation at 121 kV, current 0,9 mAs.Conclusions: There was an influence variation of an exposed factor on the quality of the image and dose to the patient.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 4932
Author(s):  
Rui Zhou ◽  
Jiangtao Han ◽  
Zhenyu Guo ◽  
Tonglin Li

Magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data can easily be damaged by various types of noise, especially in industrial areas, where the quality of measured data is poor. Most traditional de-noising methods are ineffective to the low signal-to-noise ratio of data. To solve the above problem, we propose the use of a de-noising method for the detection of noise in MT data based on discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition (SVD), with multiscale dispersion entropy and phase space reconstruction carried out for pretreatment. No “over processing” takes place in the proposed method. Compared with wavelet transform and SVD decomposition in synthetic tests, the proposed method removes the profile of noise more completely, including large-scale noise and impulse noise. For high levels or low levels of noise, the proposed method can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of data more obviously. Moreover, application to the field MT data can prove the performance of the proposed method. The proposed method is a feasible method for the elimination of various noise types and can improve MT data with high noise levels, obtaining a recovery in the response. It can improve abrupt points and distortion in MT response curves more effectively than the robust method can.


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