A denoising and enhancing method framework for 4D ultrasound images of human fetal heart

4D ultrasound images of human fetal heart are important for medical applications such as evaluation of fetal heart function and early diagnosis of congenital heart diseases. However, due to the high noise and low contrast characteristics in fetal ultrasound images, denoising and enhancements are imp...

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Vydané v:Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery Ročník 11; číslo 4; s. 1567
Hlavní autori: Liu, Bin, Xu, Zhao, Wang, Qifeng, Niu, Xiaolei, Chan, Wei Xuan, Hadi, Wiputra, Yap, Choon Hwai
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: China 01.04.2021
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histogram clipping
non-local mean
4D STIC human fetal heart ultrasound
Ultrasound image denoising and enhancing
ISSN:2223-4292
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Shrnutí:4D ultrasound images of human fetal heart are important for medical applications such as evaluation of fetal heart function and early diagnosis of congenital heart diseases. However, due to the high noise and low contrast characteristics in fetal ultrasound images, denoising and enhancements are important. In this paper, a special method framework for denoising and enhancing is proposed. It consists of a 4D-NLM (non-local means) denoising method for 4D fetal heart ultrasound image sequence, which takes advantage of context similar information in neighboring images to denoise the target image, and an enhancing method called the Adaptive Clipping for Each Histogram Pillar (ACEHP), which is designed to enhance myocardial spaces to distinguish them from blood spaces. Denoising and enhancing experiments show that 4D-NLM method has better denoising effect than several classical and state-of-the-art methods such as NLM and WNNM. Similarly, ACEHP method can keep noise level low while enhancing myocardial regions better than several classical and state-of-the-art methods such as CLAHE and SVDDWT. Furthermore, in the volume rendering after the combined "4D-NLM+ACEHP" processing, the cardiac lumen is clear and the boundary is neat. The Entropy value that can be achieved by our method framework (4D-NLM+ACEHP) is 4.84. Our new framework can thus provide important improvements to clinical fetal heart ultrasound images.
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ISSN:2223-4292
DOI:10.21037/qims-20-818