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Single image super-resolution (SISR) is an emerging application in medical imaging, as high-quality images need to be obtained with limited radiation dose, such as low-dose computed tomography and low-field magnetic resonance imaging. However, a certain amount of noise and artifacts are frequently present in medical images due to the constraints of imaging equipment and the surrounding environment. This can cause structural distortion and blurring of details in the resulting medical images. This research proposes a dual-domain residual convolutional neural network (DDRN) based super-resolution reconstruction technique for medical images. Firstly, shallow feature extraction is performed on the low-resolution images through convolutional networks. Secondly, a newly designed spatial domain residual block (SDRB) is employed to alleviate gradient vanishing issues while enhancing feature reuse, thereby facilitating the recovery of edge details. Additionally, a coordinate attention (CA) module is incorporated to capture both channel-wise and long-range spatial correlations. By assigning adaptive weights to different channels and capturing global spatial context, CA enables precise restoration of texture and structural details in medical images. Subsequently, parallel wavelet domain residual blocks (WDRB) are employed to capture multi-directional high-frequency information, facilitating the restoration of clear texture details. Lastly, by introducing gradient space loss for training guidance, the network is encouraged to focus more on restoring the geometric structure of the image and suppressing artifacts. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of DDRN. At a scaling factor of 4, the network achieves a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 37.28 dB and a structural similarity index (SSIM) of 0.9310 on the COVID-19 CT lung segmentation dataset, and a PSNR of 28.85 dB and an SSIM of 0.9012 on the MRBrain2018 dataset.
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SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
ISSN: 1863-1703
Year: 2025
Issue: 6
Volume: 19
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JCR@2023
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