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This paper proposes aconvolutional neural network (CNN)-based efficient medical image super-resolution (SR) method in the shearlet domain. Because of differences between imaging mechanisms optimized for natural images and medical images, the design begins with building a medical image dataset for medical image SR and extracting effective areas to remarkably enhance the training effects of the CNN-based method. Then, a new medical image SR network structure—deep medical super-resolution network (DMSRN)—has been designed in which local residual learning is implemented through a recursive network and combined with global residual learning to heighten the depth of the network on the ground with no parameter increase. This effectively fixes the long-term dependency problem, which causes the prior state layers to barely have any effect on the following state layers. Last, the design addresses the problem of too-smooth reconstruction effects in the CNN-based method in the image space domain; shearlet transform is introduced to DMSRN to restore global topology through low-frequency sub-bands and restore local edge detail information through high-frequency sub-bands. Experimental results show that the proposed method is better than other state-of-the-art methods for medical image SR, which significantly promotes the restoration ability of texture structure and edge details.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos: 61802212 and 61872203), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No: ZR2019BF017), the Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (No: J18KA331), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No: 2020M670728), Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Projects of Shandong Province (Nos: 2019JZZY010127, 2019JZZY010132, and 2019JZZY010201), Plan of Youth Innovation Team Development of Colleges and Universities in Shandong Province (No: SD2019-161) and Jinan City 20 universities Funding Projects Introducing Innovation Team Program (No: 2019GXRC031).
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Wang, C., Wang, S., Xia, Z. et al. Medical image super-resolution via deep residual neural network in the shearlet domain. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 26637–26655 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10894-0
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