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Covid-19患者低剂量CT成像的图像质量定量分析

Quantitative analysis of image quality in low-dose CT imaging for Covid-19 patients

Behrooz Ghane, Alireza Karimian, Samaneh Mostafapour, Faezeh Gholamiankhak, Seyedjafar Shojaerazavi, Hossein Arabi

摘要:

我们开始使用Beer-Lambert定律在49名感染COVID-19的患者中模拟标准CT成像的四个降低剂量水平(60%剂量,40%剂量,20%剂量和10%剂量)。然后,将三种去噪滤波器,即高斯、双边和中值,应用于不同的低剂量CT图像,在应用各种滤波器之前和之后,分别针对肺组织和全身,通过计算峰值信噪比(PSNR)、均方根误差(RMSE)、结构相似性指数测度(SSIM)和相对CT值偏差来评估其质量。定量评价表明,即使在应用去噪滤波器后,10%剂量CT图像的质量也较差(肺部RMSE=322.1-+104.0 HU,偏倚=11.44-+4.49%)。与其他去噪技术相比,双边滤波器在抑制噪声和恢复低剂量CT图像中的潜在信号方面表现出优越的性能。对于20%剂量CT图像,双侧滤波器在肺部区域的RMSE和偏倚分别为100.21-+16.47 HU,-0.21-+1.20%,而高斯滤波器的RMSE=103.46-+15.70 HU,偏倚=1.02-+1.68%,中值滤波的RMSE=129.60-+18.09 HU,偏倚=-6.15-+2.24%;未滤波的20%剂量CT的RMSE=217.37-+64.66 HU,偏倚=4.30-+1.85%。总之,20%剂量CT成像后进行双侧滤波在图像质量和患者剂量降低之间实现了合理的折衷。

英文摘要:

We set out to simulate four reduced dose-levels (60%-dose, 40%-dose, 20%-dose, and 10%-dose) of standard CT imaging using Beer-Lambert's law across 49 patients infected with COVID-19. Then, three denoising filters, namely Gaussian, Bilateral, and Median, were applied to the different low-dose CT images, the quality of which was assessed prior to and after the application of the various filters via calculation of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), root mean square error (RMSE), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and relative CT-value bias, separately for the lung tissue and whole-body. The quantitative evaluation indicated that 10%-dose CT images have inferior quality (with RMSE=322.1-+104.0 HU and bias=11.44-+4.49% in the lung) even after the application of the denoising filters. The bilateral filter exhibited superior performance to suppress the noise and recover the underlying signals in low-dose CT images compared to the other denoising techniques. The bilateral filter led to RMSE and bias of 100.21-+16.47 HU, -0.21-+1.20%, respectively in the lung regions for 20%-dose CT images compared to the Gaussian filter with RMSE=103.46-+15.70 HU and bias=1.02-+1.68%, median filter with RMSE=129.60-+18.09 HU and bias=-6.15-+2.24%, and the nonfiltered 20%-dose CT with RMSE=217.37-+64.66 HU and bias=4.30-+1.85%. In conclusion, the 20%-dose CT imaging followed by the bilateral filtering introduced a reasonable compromise between image quality and patient dose reduction.

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