MR images reconstruction based on TVWL2-L1 model

作者:Zhang Zhen; Shi Yunhui*; Ding Wenpeng; Yin Baocai
来源:Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2013, 24(2): 187-195.
DOI:10.1016/j.jvcir.2012.05.006

摘要

Compressive sensing (CS) theory, which has been widely used in magnetic resonance (MR) image processing, indicates that a sparse signal can be reconstructed by the optimization programming process from non-adaptive linear projections. Since MR Images commonly possess a blocky structure and have sparse representations under certain wavelet bases, total variation (TV) and wavelet domain norm regularization are enforced together (TV-wavelet Ll method) to improve the recovery accuracy. However, the components of wavelet coefficients are different: low-frequency components of an image, that carry the main energy of the MR image, perform a decisive impact for reconstruction quality. In this paper, we propose a TV and wavelet L2-L1 model (TVWL2-L1) to measure the low frequency wavelet coefficients with 2 norm and high frequency wavelet coefficients with l(1) norm. We present two methods to approach this problem by operator splitting algorithm and proximal gradient algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that our method can obviously improve the quality of MR image recovery comparing with the original TV-wavelet method.