Denoising in Magnetic Resonance Images using Improved Gaussian Smoothing Technique

2019 International journal of recent technology and engineering  
Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) are usually prone to noise like Rician and Gaussian noise. It is very difficult to perform image processing functions with the presence of noise. The objective of our work is to investigate the best method for denoising the MRI images. This study included 25 MRI subjects selected from the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) - 3 database. The 25 brain image subjects includes cases of both men and women aged 60 to 80. The input RGB image is first
more » ... to gray scale image in which the contrast, sharpness, shadow and structure of the color of image are preserved. The proposed work uses an improved Gaussian smoothing technique for denoising Magnetic Resonance Images by constructing a modified mask for Gaussian smoothing. The performance of the proposed technique has been compared with various filters like median filter, Gaussian filter and Gabor filter. The performance evaluation was carried out by metrics like Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Square Error (MSE) and Structural Similarity (SSIM) index. The experimental results show that the Improved Gaussian Smoothing Technique (IGST) performs better than other methods. All experiments were conducted using Scikit Learn version 0.20 and Scikit Image version 0.14.1 under Python version 3.6.7.
doi:10.35940/ijrte.b2859.078219 fatcat:qpxbtoav7fh4rkqlhomdozsd5a