Sid Ahmed S, Messali Z, Boubchir L, Bouridane A, Marco S, Messaoudi C. Iterative Bayesian denoising based on variance stabilization using Contourlet Transform with Sharp Frequency Localization: application to EFTEM images.
BMC Biomed Eng 2019;
1:13. [PMID:
32903357 PMCID:
PMC7422512 DOI:
10.1186/s42490-019-0013-0]
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Abstract
Background
Due to the presence of high noise level in tomographic series of energy filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) images, alignment and 3D reconstruction steps become so difficult. To improve the alignment process which will in turn allow a more accurate and better three dimensional tomography reconstructions, a preprocessing step should be applied to the EFTEM data series.
Results
Experiments with real EFTEM data series at low SNR, show the feasibility and the accuracy of the proposed denoising approach being competitive with the best existing methods for Poisson image denoising. The effectiveness of the proposed denoising approach is thanks to the use of a nonparametric Bayesian estimation in the Contourlet Transform with Sharp Frequency Localization Domain (CTSD) and variance stabilizing transformation (VST). Furthermore, the optimal inverse Anscome transformation to obtain the final estimate of the denoised images, has allowed an accurate tomography reconstruction.
Conclusion
The proposed approach provides qualitative information on the 3D distribution of individual chemical elements on the considered sample.
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