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Denoising MRI images is a critical task in many e-health applications for disease detection. The challenge in this research field is to define novel algorithms and strategies capable of improving accuracy and performance in terms of image vision quality and computational cost to process data. Using MRI statistical information, the authors present a method for improving image quality by combining a total variation-based denoising algorithm with histogram matching (HM) techniques.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The total variation is the Rudin\u2013Osher\u2013Fatemi total variation (TV-ROF) minimization approach, TV-L2, using the isotropic TV setting for the bounded variation (BV) component. The dual-stage approach is tested against two implementations of the TV-L2: the split Bregman (SB) algorithm and a fixed-point (FP) iterations scheme. In terms of HM, the study explores approximate matching and the exact histogram matching from Coltuc.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>As measured by the structural similarity index (SIMM), the results indicate that in the more realistic study scenarios, the FP with an HM pairing is one of the best options, with an improvement of up to 12.2% over the one without an HM.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The findings can be used to evaluate and investigate more advanced machine learning-based approaches for developing novel denoising algorithms that infer information from <jats:italic>ad hoc<\/jats:italic> MRI histograms. 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