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The positive outcome of a trauma intervention depends on an intraoperative evaluation of inserted metallic implants. Due to occurring metal artifacts, the quality of this evaluation heavily depends on the performance of so-called Metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

During the computed tomography (CT) imaging process, metallic implants within patients often cause harmful artifacts, which adversely degrade the visual quality of reconstructed CT images and negatively affect the subsequent clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

We present a pixel-specific, measurement-driven correction that effectively minimizes errors in detector response that give rise to the ring artifacts commonly seen in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. This correction is easy to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Linda C. P. Croton , Gary Ruben , Kaye S. Morgan , David M. Paganin , Marcus J. Kitchen

Image compression is one of the essential methods of image processing. Its most prominent advantage is the significant reduction of image size allowing for more efficient storage and transfer. However, lossy compression is associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Patryk Najgebauer , Rafal Scherer , Leszek Rutkowski

Artifacts pose a significant challenge in medical imaging, impacting diagnostic accuracy and downstream analysis. While image-based approaches for detecting artifacts can be effective, they often rely on preprocessing methods that can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Caner Özer , Patryk Rygiel , Bram de Wilde , İlkay Öksüz , Jelmer M. Wolterink

In total hip arthroplasty, analysis of postoperative medical images is important to evaluate surgical outcome. Since Computed Tomography (CT) is most prevalent modality in orthopedic surgery, we aimed at the analysis of CT image. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Mitsuki Sakamoto , Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Yuki Suzuki , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Computed Tomography (CT) using synchrotron radiation is a powerful technique that, compared to lab-CT techniques, boosts high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing access to a range of contrast-formation mechanisms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

High density implants such as metals often lead to serious artifacts in the reconstructed CT images which hampers the accuracy of image based diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet frame based CT image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Baodong Liu

Industry standards require medical device manufacturers to perform implant-induced artefact testing in phantoms at a pre-clinical stage to define the extent of artefacts that can be expected during MRI. Once a device is commercially…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Guy Fierens , Joris Walraevens , Ronald Peeters , Christ Glorieux , Nicolas Verhaert

Inconsistent responses of X-ray detector elements lead to stripe artifacts in the sinogram data, which manifest as ring artifacts in the reconstructed CT images, severely degrading image quality. This paper proposes a method for correcting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ligen Shi , Xu Jiang , YunZe Liu , Chang Liu , Ping Yang , Shifeng Guo , Xing Zhao

This paper presents a two-stage method for beam hardening artifact correction of dental cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT). The proposed artifact reduction method is designed to improve the quality of maxillofacial imaging, where soft…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-09 T. Bayaraa , C. M. Hyun , T. J. Jang , S. M. Lee , J. K. Seo

Current deep neural network based approaches to computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) are supervised methods which rely heavily on synthesized data for training. However, as synthesized data may not perfectly simulate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , Jianbo Yuan , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Metal artifacts caused by the presence of metallic implants tremendously degrade the reconstructed computed tomography (CT) image quality, affecting clinical diagnosis or reducing the accuracy of organ delineation and dose calculation in…

Metal implants can heavily attenuate X-rays in computed tomography (CT) scans, leading to severe artifacts in reconstructed images, which significantly jeopardize image quality and negatively impact subsequent diagnoses and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Yongqiang Huang , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) imaging pose significant challenges to accurate clinical diagnosis. The presence of high-density metallic implants results in artifacts that deteriorate image quality, manifesting in the forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Xinrui Zhang , Ailong Cai , Shaoyu Wang , Linyuan Wang , Zhizhong Zheng , Lei Li , Bin Yan

Metal implants that are inserted into the patient's body during trauma interventions cause heavy artifacts in 3D X-ray acquisitions. Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) methods, whose first step is always a segmentation of the present metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

Background and Objective: The strong demand for medical imaging applications leads to the popularity of the CT reconstruction problem. Researchers proposed multiple constraints to tackle none ideal factors in CT reconstruction such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ziyu Shu , Alireza Entezari

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Yan Liu , Jonathan Dong , Thanh-an Pham , François Marelli , Michael Unser

Metal implants in MRI cause severe artifacts that degrade image quality and hinder clinical diagnosis. Traditional approaches address metal artifact reduction (MAR) and accelerated MRI acquisition as separate problems. We propose MASC, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengyi Lu , Ming Lu , Chongyu Qu , Junchao Zhu , Junlin Guo , Marilyn Lionts , Yanfan Zhu , Yuechen Yang , Tianyuan Yao , Jayasai Rajagopal , Bennett Allan Landman , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo