Magnetic resonance image restoration via least absolute deviations measure with isotropic total variation constraint

Abstract

This paper presents a magnetic resonance image deblurring and denoising model named the isotropic total variation regularized least absolute deviations measure (LADTV). More specifically, the least absolute deviations term is first adopted to measure the violation of the relation between the desired magnetic resonance image and the observed image, and to simultaneously suppress the noise that may corrupt the desired image. Then, in order to preserve the smoothness of the desired image, we introduce an isotropic total variation constraint, yielding the proposed restoration model LADTV. Finally, an alternating optimization algorithm is developed to solve the associated minimization problem. Comparative experiments on clinical data demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach to synchronously deblur and denoise magnetic resonance image.

Keywords

• magnetic resonance image restoration
• image deblurring
• image denoising
• least absolute deviations
• isotropic total variation