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Two-stage Deep Denoising with Self-guided Noise Attention for Multimodal Medical Images

arXiv 2503.06827 ↗First posted 10 Mar 2025eess.IV cs.CVcited by 2

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Abstract (arXiv)

Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous medical images. This study addresses the limitation of the contemporary denoising methods with an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven two-stage learning strategy. The proposed method learns to estimate the residual noise from the noisy images. Later, it incorporates a novel noise attention mechanism to correlate estimated residual noise with noisy inputs to perform denoising in a course-to-refine manner. This study also proposes to leverage a multi-modal learning strategy to generalize the denoising among medical image modalities and multiple noise patterns for widespread applications. The practicability of the proposed method has been evaluated with dense experiments. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method achieved state-of-the-art performance by significantly outperforming the existing medical image denoising methods in quantitative and qualitative comparisons. Overall, it illustrates a performance gain of 7.64 in Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), 0.1021 in Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), 0.80 in DeltaE (Delta E), 0.1855 in Visual Information Fidelity Pixel-wise (VIFP), and 18.54 in Mean Squared Error (MSE) metrics.

Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 17 of its 58 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Mar 2025.

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  1. 2025Dual Path Learning -- learning from noise and context for medical image denoisingcited by 1
  2. 2026PatchDenoiser: Parameter-efficient multi-scale patch learning and fusion denoiser for Low-dose CT imagingcited by 0