MANAS: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Neural Architecture Search for Low-Dose CT Denoising

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12995v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 05:41:01 GMT
• Title: MANAS: Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Neural Architecture Search for Low-Dose CT Denoising
• Authors: Zexin Lu, Wenjun Xia, Yongqiang Huang, Hongming Shan, Hu Chen, Jiliu Zhou, Yi Zhang
• Abstract summary: We propose a multi-scale and multi-level NAS for LDCT denoising, termed MANAS. On the one hand, the proposed MANAS fuses features extracted by different scale cells to capture multi-scale image structural details. On the other hand, the proposed MANAS can search a hybrid cell- and network-level structure for better performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Lowering the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) can greatly reduce the potential risk to public health. However, the reconstructed images from the dose-reduced CT or low-dose CT (LDCT) suffer from severe noise, compromising the subsequent diagnosis and analysis. Recently, convolutional neural networks have achieved promising results in removing noise from LDCT images; the network architectures used are either handcrafted or built on top of conventional networks such as ResNet and U-Net. Recent advance on neural network architecture search (NAS) has proved that the network architecture has a dramatic effect on the model performance, which indicates that current network architectures for LDCT may be sub-optimal. Therefore, in this paper, we make the first attempt to apply NAS to LDCT and propose a multi-scale and multi-level NAS for LDCT denoising, termed MANAS. On the one hand, the proposed MANAS fuses features extracted by different scale cells to capture multi-scale image structural details. On the other hand, the proposed MANAS can search a hybrid cell- and network-level structure for better performance. Extensively experimental results on three different dose levels demonstrate that the proposed MANAS can achieve better performance in terms of preserving image structural details than several state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we also validate the effectiveness of the multi-scale and multi-level architecture for LDCT denoising.

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