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Automatic chest computed tomography image noise quantification using deep learning
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DOI：10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.103186.png)
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Purpose: This study aimed to develop a deep learning (DL) method for noise quantification for clinical chest computed tomography (CT) images without the need for repeated scanning or homogeneous tissue regions. Methods: A comprehensive phantom CT dataset (three dose levels, six reconstruction methods, amounting to 9240 slices) was acquired and used to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to output an estimate of local image noise standard deviations (SD) from a single CT scan input. The CNN model consisting of seven convolutional layers was trained on the phantom image dataset representing a range of scan parameters and was tested with phantom images acquired in a variety of different scan conditions, as well as publicly available chest CT images to produce clinical noise SD maps. Results: Noise SD maps predicted by the CNN agreed well with the ground truth both visually and numerically in the phantom dataset (errors of < 5 HU for most scan parameter combinations). In addition, the noise SD estimates obtained from clinical chest CT images were similar to running-average based reference estimates in areas without prominent tissue interfaces. Conclusions: Predicting local noise magnitudes without the need for repeated scans is feasible using DL. Our implementation trained with phantom data was successfully applied to open-source clinical data with heterogeneous tissue borders and textures. We suggest that automatic DL noise mapping from clinical patient images could be used as a tool for objective CT image quality estimation and protocol optimization.
Keywords:
tomography
X-ray computed
Deep learning
Noise quantification
Image quality
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