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Noise2Inverse: Self-supervised deep convolutional denoising for tomography
Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an
important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised
deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown
strong results, but the success of these supervised methods critically depends
on the availability of a high-quality training dataset of similar measurements.
For image denoising, methods are available that enable training without a
separate training dataset by assuming that the noise in two different pixels is
uncorrelated. However, this assumption does not hold for inverse problems,
resulting in artifacts in the denoised images produced by existing methods.
Here, we propose Noise2Inverse, a deep CNN-based denoising method for linear
image reconstruction algorithms that does not require any additional clean or
noisy data. Training a CNN-based denoiser is enabled by exploiting the noise
model to compute multiple statistically independent reconstructions. We develop
a theoretical framework which shows that such training indeed obtains a
denoising CNN, assuming the measured noise is element-wise independent and
zero-mean. On simulated CT datasets, Noise2Inverse demonstrates an improvement
in peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index compared to
state-of-the-art image denoising methods and conventional reconstruction
methods, such as Total-Variation Minimization. We also demonstrate that the
method is able to significantly reduce noise in challenging real-world
experimental datasets.Comment: This paper appears in: IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging On
page(s): 1320-1335 Print ISSN: 2333-9403 Online ISSN: 2333-9403 Digital
Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCI.2020.301964