Nonconvex Nonlocal Tucker Decomposition for 3D Medical Image Super-Resolution.

Limited by hardware conditions, imaging devices, transmission efficiency, and other factors, high-resolution (HR) images cannot be obtained directly in clinical settings. It is expected to obtain HR images from low-resolution (LR) images for more detailed information. In this article, we propose a novel super-resolution model for single 3D medical images. In our model, nonlocal low-rank tensor Tucker decomposition is applied to exploit the nonlocal self-similarity prior knowledge of data. Different from the existing methods that use a convex optimization for tensor Tucker decomposition, we use a tensor folded-concave penalty to approximate a nonlocal low-rank tensor. Weighted 3D total variation (TV) is used to maintain the local smoothness across different dimensions. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms some state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on different kinds of medical images, including MRI data of the brain and prostate and CT data of the abdominal and dental.