access icon openaccess Image denoising in bidimensional empirical mode decomposition domain: the role of Student's probability distribution function

Hybridisation of the bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) with denoising techniques has been proposed in the literature as an effective approach for image denoising. In this Letter, the Student's probability density function is introduced in the computation of the mean envelope of the data during the BEMD sifting process to make it robust to values that are far from the mean. The resulting BEMD is denoted tBEMD. In order to show the effectiveness of the tBEMD, several image denoising techniques in tBEMD domain are employed; namely, fourth order partial differential equation (PDE), linear complex diffusion process (LCDP), non-linear complex diffusion process (NLCDP), and the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Two biomedical images and a standard digital image were considered for experiments. The original images were corrupted with additive Gaussian noise with three different levels. Based on peak-signal-to-noise ratio, the experimental results show that PDE, LCDP, NLCDP, and DWT all perform better in the tBEMD than in the classical BEMD domain. It is also found that tBEMD is faster than classical BEMD when the noise level is low. When it is high, the computational cost in terms of processing time is similar. The effectiveness of the presented approach makes it promising for clinical applications.

Inspec keywords: image denoising; discrete wavelet transforms; partial differential equations; biomedical MRI; probability; biodiffusion; Gaussian noise; medical image processing

Other keywords: classical BEMD domain; fourth order partial differential equation; peak signal-to-noise ratio; linear complex diffusion process; clinical applications; discrete wavelet transform; Student's probability distribution function; standard digital image; DWT; BEMD sifting process; nonlinear complex diffusion process; additive Gaussian noise; image denoising; LCDP; NLCDP; bidimensional empirical mode decomposition; tBEMD domain; biomedical images; PDE

Subjects: Integral transforms in numerical analysis; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Other topics in statistics; Other topics in statistics; Biomedical magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Differential equations (numerical analysis); Optical, image and video signal processing; Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, and Brownian motion; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Medical magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; Biology and medical computing; Integral transforms in numerical analysis; Function theory, analysis; Differential equations (numerical analysis)

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