An Algorithm for the Proximity Operator in Hybrid TV-Wavelet Regularization, with Application to MR Image Reconstruction

An Algorithm for the Proximity Operator in Hybrid TV-Wavelet Regularization, with Application to MR Image Reconstruction

Year:    2014

East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 (2014), Iss. 1 : pp. 21–34

Abstract

Total variation (TV) and wavelet $L_1$ norms have often been used as regularization terms in image restoration and reconstruction problems. However, TV regularization can introduce staircase effects and wavelet regularization some ringing artifacts, but hybrid TV and wavelet regularization can reduce or remove these drawbacks in the reconstructed images. We need to compute the proximal operator of hybrid regularizations, which is generally a sub-problem in the optimization procedure. Both TV and wavelet $L_1$ regularisers are nonlinear and non-smooth, causing numerical difficulty. We propose a dual iterative approach to solve the minimization problem for hybrid regularizations and also prove the convergence of our proposed method, which we then apply to the problem of MR image reconstruction from highly random under-sampled k-space data. Numerical results show the efficiency and effectiveness of this proposed method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/eajam.150413.260913a

East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 (2014), Iss. 1 : pp. 21–34

Published online:    2014-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    14

Keywords:    Total Variation (TV) wavelet regularization MR image.

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