CN110070510A - A kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19 - Google Patents

A kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19 Download PDF

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CN110070510A
CN110070510A CN201910345935.6A CN201910345935A CN110070510A CN 110070510 A CN110070510 A CN 110070510A CN 201910345935 A CN201910345935 A CN 201910345935A CN 110070510 A CN110070510 A CN 110070510A
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The present invention provides a kind of CNN medical image denoising method that feature is extracted based on VGG-19, including building CNN noise reduction network, it extracts training image and training label image and principle is minimised as with loss function and the noise reduction network put up is trained, and noise reduction process is carried out to strong noise picture using the noise reduction network after training, export noise reduction result.The present invention is smooth in order to overcome image border after noise reduction, the problem of losing original image detail, it is proposed a kind of image using after noise reduction and image denoising method that the difference after clearly image uses VGG-19 to do feature extraction originally is optimized as loss function, the original details of image is saved to reach, improves the effect of image definition.

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A kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19
Technical field
The present invention relates to be used as loss function after field of medical image processing more particularly to a kind of extraction feature by VGG-19 CNN medical image denoising method.
Background technique
Computed tomography (CT) imaging technique is born in nineteen seventies, is one of four big image technologies, It since such technology has many advantages, such as that imaging time is short, high resolution, and contains much information, clinical application is very extensive.In recent years Come, CT technology is developing rapidly and be widely used in clinical medicine domain, and also therefore people start gradually to pay attention to CT use In the process itself there are the problem of, i.e., the excessively high problem of dose of radiation in CT scan.The x-ray tube current of CT machine and radioactive ray agent Measure it is in a linear relationship, therefore, reduce tube current can reduce the dose of radiation that subject is subject to.But corresponding CT rebuilds figure The quality of picture can generate serious degeneration, to affect the accuracy of clinical medicine diagnosis.Therefore how effectively to improve low The picture quality of dosage CT becomes the hot spot of CT technical research.Currently, the method for improving low-dose CT resolution ratio is roughly divided into 3 Class: (1) string figure filters.Namely classical filtered back projection technique (FBP) (2) iterative approximation.Compare classical algorithm such as Expectation maximization (EM) (3) image noise reduction post-processing approach.For example non-local means (NLM) algorithm, K-SVD reduce figure As artifact, BM3D algorithm is used to image restoration.Deep learning widely and has successfully been applied in recent years regards in computer In feel task, such as image segmentation, object detection, image super-resolution, due to data abundance, deep learning is obtained in recent years It flourishing, nearest deep learning is also employed in medical image, such as with rolling up and neural network (CNN) image denoising, Artifact removal.
Summary of the invention
According to set forth above in the prior art for deteriroation of image quality problem caused by reducing dose of radiation, one is proposed Kind using the image after noise reduction and originally the difference that clearly image uses VGG-19 both to do after feature extraction is as loss function The image denoising method optimized saves the original details of image to reach, improves the effect of image definition.
The technological means that the present invention uses is as follows:
A kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19, comprising the following steps:
Step S1, CNN noise reduction network is built, and each layer deconvolution parameter is set;
Step S2, training image and training label image are extracted, principle is minimised as to the drop put up with loss function Network of making an uproar is trained, and the loss function is the first difference for extracting feature with the second extraction feature, and first extraction is special Sign carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19 by the noise reduction result that noise reduction network exports;Described second extracts feature by training label Image carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19;
Step S3, noise reduction process is carried out to strong noise picture using the noise reduction network after training, exports noise reduction result.
Further, the first extraction feature carries out feature extraction through VGG-19 by the noise reduction result that noise reduction network exports It obtains, characteristic extraction part of 16 convolutional layers for retaining the VGG-19 as noise reduction result is specifically included, by the VGG- 3 of 19 are complete, and articulamentum removes.
Further, the second extraction feature is by training label image to carry out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19, specifically It is complete by 3 of the VGG-19 including retaining characteristic extraction part of 16 convolutional layers of the VGG-19 as training label Articulamentum removes.
The present invention also provides a kind of storage mediums comprising the program of storage, wherein described program executes above-mentioned any Noise-reduction method described in one.
It the present invention also provides a kind of processor, is used to run program, wherein described program executes above-mentioned any one The noise-reduction method.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages that
The prior art all uses training label and each pixel difference for inputting picture as loss function, that is, uses MSE mean square error is as loss function, however the mean square error for reducing each pixel merely can cause the transitions smooth at edge, The original details of image is lost, noise reduction effect visually cannot be largely improved.The present invention is using VGG-19 as loss letter Number, since VGG-19 network is mainly used to do 1000 kinds of image classifications, is more in line with people's vision to carry out the optimization to model On the mode of feature is extracted from image, therefore can more highlight visual noise reduction effect, largely improve picture quality, To overcome as simply to reduce excess smoothness problem in image border caused by pixel mean square error.
The present invention can be widely popularized in fields such as medical imaging, medical image denoisings based on the above reasons.
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In order to more clearly explain the embodiment of the invention or the technical proposal in the existing technology, to embodiment or will show below There is attached drawing needed in technical description to do simply to introduce, it should be apparent that, the accompanying drawings in the following description is this hair Bright some embodiments for those of ordinary skill in the art without any creative labor, can be with It obtains other drawings based on these drawings.
Fig. 1 is noise-reduction method flow chart of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is that flow chart is extracted in present invention perception loss.
Fig. 3 a is that present invention training inputs strong noise schematic diagram.
Fig. 3 b is that present invention training inputs low noise schematic diagram.
Fig. 3 c is that the present invention generates result schematic diagram.
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It should be noted that in the absence of conflict, the feature in embodiment and embodiment in the present invention can phase Mutually combination.The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
In order to make the object, technical scheme and advantages of the embodiment of the invention clearer, below in conjunction with the embodiment of the present invention In attached drawing, technical scheme in the embodiment of the invention is clearly and completely described, it is clear that described embodiment is only It is only a part of the embodiment of the present invention, instead of all the embodiments.It is real to the description of at least one exemplary embodiment below It is merely illustrative on border, never as to the present invention and its application or any restrictions used.Based on the reality in the present invention Example is applied, every other embodiment obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts all belongs to In the scope of protection of the invention.
It should be noted that term used herein above is merely to describe specific embodiment, and be not intended to restricted root According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention.As used herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, otherwise singular Also it is intended to include plural form, additionally, it should be understood that, when in the present specification using term "comprising" and/or " packet Include " when, indicate existing characteristics, step, operation, device, component and/or their combination.
As shown in Figure 1, the present invention provides a kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19, packet Include following steps:
Step S1, CNN noise reduction network is built, and each layer deconvolution parameter is set.CNN noise reduction model contains altogether 8 convolution Layer, convolution kernel size is 3*3, and convolution kernel number is respectively 32,32,32,32,32,32,32,1, using noise reduction result as defeated Out.
Step S2, training image and training label image are extracted, principle is minimised as to the drop put up with loss function Network of making an uproar is trained, and the loss function is the first difference for extracting feature with the second extraction feature, and first extraction is special Sign carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19 by the noise reduction result that noise reduction network exports;Described second extracts feature by training label Image carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19.CNN network is trained and by gradient by backpropagation by Adam optimizer Algorithm calculates.Specifically, VGG-19 Feature Selection Model used in the present invention is trained in advance by ImageNet, retain Characteristic extraction part of 16 convolutional layers of VGG-19 as noise reduction result and training label, 3 of the VGG-19 are connected entirely Layer is connect to remove.VGG-19 mono- shares 16 convolutional layers, and the convolution kernel size that convolutional layer uses is 3*3, and convolution kernel number is successively It is 64,64,128,128,128,256,256,256,512,512,512,512,512,512,512,512;5 pond layers, pond Changing layer is maximum pond, step-length 2*2;3 full articulamentums.The noise reduction result that the first extraction feature is exported by noise reduction network Feature extraction acquisition is carried out through VGG-19, specifically includes feature of 16 convolutional layers for retaining the VGG-19 as noise reduction result Part is extracted, 3 of the VGG-19 full articulamentums are removed.Described second extracts feature by training label image through VGG-19 Feature extraction acquisition is carried out, feature extraction unit of 16 convolutional layers for retaining the VGG-19 as training label is specifically included Point, 3 of the VGG-19 full articulamentums are removed.
Specifically, the present invention realizes that optimal value, the loss function are found in gradient decline by loss function is defined as:
Wherein, x indicates that training label image, z indicate that training image, F are Frobenius norms, and CNN (x) indicates to use CNN neural network carry out after noise reduction as a result, VGG (CNN (z)) is image zooming-out using VGG-19 network to noise reduction after complete Feature and VGG (x) are the feature extracted using VGG-19 network to training label image, and w is the width of image, and h is image Highly, d is the depth of image.
Step S3, noise reduction process is carried out to strong noise picture using the noise reduction network after training, exports noise reduction result.
The present invention also provides a kind of storage mediums comprising the program of storage, wherein described program executes above-mentioned any Noise-reduction method described in one.
It the present invention also provides a kind of processor, is used to run program, wherein described program executes above-mentioned any one The noise-reduction method.
Below by a specific application example, technical scheme is described further:
As shown in Fig. 2, using CNN noise reduction network to carry out noise reduction to image to achieve the purpose that use close to true picture Trained VGG-19 is as feature extraction.Specific steps are as follows:
Step A: choosing 12 patients of Neusoft and scan 512 × 512 PET data of 75s as strong noise input, then into 9 convolution operations of row and activation obtain noise reduction output.Wherein preceding 8 convolution use 32 convolution kernels, use 1 for the last time Convolution kernel.
Step B: sensing network is sent into output and obtains output feature, while corresponding 12 patients are scanned into the low of 150s Noise PET image is sent into sensing network simultaneously and obtains label image feature, and the difference for the sensing results that the two obtains is as loss Function trains CNN noise reduction model, i.e. loss function is L (D)=D (G (z))-D (x), and wherein L (D) indicates loss function, G (z) Indicate the output feature that strong noise picture z is extracted by the picture after CNN noise reduction by VGG-19, strong noise picture such as Fig. 3 a It is shown.X indicates corresponding low noise picture, and as shown in Figure 3b, D (x) is the label figure that low noise picture is extracted by VGG-19 As feature.
It repeats step A, B iteration 200000 times, after the completion of iteration, obtains trained network parameter, with the height of scanning 75s The input of noise picture, obtained picture is obtained experimental result through the invention, as shown in Figure 3c.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention., rather than its limitations;To the greatest extent Pipe present invention has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that: its according to So be possible to modify the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or to some or all of the technical features into Row equivalent replacement;And these are modified or replaceed, various embodiments of the present invention technology that it does not separate the essence of the corresponding technical solution The range of scheme.

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1. a kind of CNN medical image denoising method for extracting feature based on VGG-19, it is characterised in that the following steps are included:
Step S1, CNN noise reduction network is built, and each layer deconvolution parameter is set;
Step S2, training image and training label image are extracted, principle is minimised as to the noise reduction network put up with loss function It is trained, the loss function is the first difference for extracting feature with the second extraction feature, and described first extracts feature by dropping The noise reduction result of network of making an uproar output carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19;Described second extracts feature by training label image to pass through VGG-19 carries out feature extraction acquisition;
Step S3, noise reduction process is carried out to strong noise picture using the noise reduction network after training, exports noise reduction result.
2. image denoising method according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the first extraction feature is defeated by noise reduction network Noise reduction result out carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19, specifically includes 16 convolutional layers for retaining the VGG-19 as drop The characteristic extraction part for result of making an uproar removes 3 of the VGG-19 full articulamentums.
3. image denoising method according to claim 1 or 2, it is characterised in that described second extracts feature by training label Image carries out feature extraction acquisition through VGG-19, specifically includes 16 convolutional layers for retaining the VGG-19 as training label Characteristic extraction part removes 3 of the VGG-19 full articulamentums.
4. a kind of storage medium, it is characterised in that the program including storage, wherein described program is held any in claim 1-3 Noise-reduction method described in one.
5. a kind of processor, it is characterised in that for running program, wherein described program perform claim requires any one in 1-3 Noise-reduction method described in.
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