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Purpose: The goal is to develop a new architecture for computed tomography (CT) which is at an ultra-low-dose for developing countries, especially in rural areas. Methods: The proposed scheme is inspired by the recently developed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Fenglin Liu , Hengyong Yu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems, with their flexibility, present a promising avenue for direct point-of-care medical imaging, particularly in critical scenarios such as acute stroke assessment. However, the integration of CBCT…

Sparse views X-ray computed tomography has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. Because of the reduced number of projection views, traditional reconstruction methods can lead to severe artifacts. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Guang Yang , Daoqiang Zhang

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has emerged as a dominating technique for image rendering and has quickly been adapted for the X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction task. However, despite being on par or better than many of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pawel Tomasz Pieta , Rasmus Juul Pedersen , Sina Borgi , Jakob Sauer Jørgensen , Jens Wenzel Andreasen , Vedrana Andersen Dahl

Computed Tomography (CT) is pivotal in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. Sparse-view CT, offering reduced ionizing radiation, faces challenges due to its under-sampled nature, leading to ill-posed reconstruction problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiayang Shi , Junyi Zhu , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg , Matthew B. Blaschko

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation exposure by acquiring fewer projections, making it a valuable tool in clinical scenarios where low-dose radiation is essential. However, this often results in increased noise and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yingtai Li , Xueming Fu , Han Li , Shang Zhao , Ruiyang Jin , S. Kevin Zhou

This paper investigates a 2D to 3D image translation method with a straightforward technique, enabling correlated 2D X-ray to 3D CT-like reconstruction. We observe that existing approaches, which integrate information across multiple 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Abril Corona-Figueroa , Hubert P. H. Shum , Chris G. Willcocks

With the availability of more powerful computers, iterative reconstruction algorithms are the subject of an ongoing work in the design of more efficient reconstruction algorithms for X-ray computed tomography. In this work, we show how two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 D. Trinca , Y. Zhong

Computed Tomography (CT) scans provide detailed and accurate information of internal structures in the body. They are constructed by sending x-rays through the body from different directions and combining this information into a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Firas Khader , Gustav Müller-Franzes , Tianyu Han , Sven Nebelung , Christiane Kuhl , Johannes Stegmaier , Daniel Truhn

For single source helical Computed Tomography (CT), both Filtered-Back Projection (FBP) and statistical iterative reconstruction have been investigated. However for dual source CT with flying focal spot (DS-FFS CT), statistical iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Xiao Wang , Robert D. MacDougall , Peng Chen , Charles A. Bouman , Simon K. Warfield

Computed tomography is widely used to examine internal structures in a non-destructive manner. To obtain high-quality reconstructions, one typically has to acquire a densely sampled trajectory to avoid angular undersampling. However, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Haoyu Wei , Florian Schiffers , Tobias Würfl , Daming Shen , Daniel Kim , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Recently, compressed sensing (CS) computed tomography (CT) using sparse projection views has been extensively investigated to reduce the potential risk of radiation to patient. However, due to the insufficient number of projection views, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yo Seob Han , Jaejun Yoo , Jong Chul Ye

Background: Dual-energy imaging on cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanners has great potential in different clinical applications, including image-guided surgery and adaptive proton therapy. However, the clinical practice of dual-energy CBCT (DE-CBCT)…

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) imaging, especially with dual-robot systems, have introduced new challenges for scan trajectory optimization. This paper presents a novel approach using Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) to optimize CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yuedong Yuan , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Andreas Maier

MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Matthias Hein , Christian F. Baumgartner

Automated CT report generation plays a crucial role in improving diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflow efficiency. However, existing methods lack interpretability and impede patient-clinician understanding, while their static nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Yannian Gu , Wenhui Lei , Hanyu Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Single-image piece-wise planar 3D reconstruction aims to simultaneously segment plane instances and recover 3D plane parameters from an image. Most recent approaches leverage convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and achieve promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Zehao Yu , Jia Zheng , Dongze Lian , Zihan Zhou , Shenghua Gao

We present two methods that combine image reconstruction and edge detection in computed tomography (CT) scans. Our first method is as an extension of the prominent filtered backprojection algorithm. In our second method we employ…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Jürgen Frikel , Simon Göppel , Markus Haltmeier

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) enables fast and low-dose CT imaging, an essential feature for patient-save medical imaging and rapid non-destructive testing. In sparse-view CT, only a few projection views are acquired, causing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Nadja Gruber , Johannes Schwab , Elke Gizewski , Markus Haltmeier