Sparse Coding for Improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio in MRI

Magnetic Resonance images (MRI) do not only exhibit sparsity but their sparsity take a certain predictable shape which is common for all kinds of images. That region based localised sparsity can be used to de-noise MR images from random thermal noise. This paper present a simple framework to exploit sparsity of MR images for image de-noising. As, noise in MR images tends to change its shape based on contrast level and signal itself, the proposed method is independent of noise shape and type and it can be used in combination with other methods.

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