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Medical imaging is vital in computer assisted intervention. Particularly cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) with defacto real time and mobility capabilities plays an important role. However, CBCT images often suffer from artifacts, which…

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Metal objects pose a significant challenge in cone-beam computed tomography, as their strong and energy-dependent X-ray attenuation leads to inconsistent projections and severe streaking and shading artifacts in reconstructed images. These…

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) finds diverse applications in medicine. Ensuring high image quality in CBCT scans is essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment delivery. Yet, the susceptibility of CBCT images to noise and artifacts…

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Purpose: Patient movement affects image quality in oral and maxillofacial cone-beam CT imaging. While many efforts are made to minimize the possibility of motion during a scan, relatively little attention has been given to motion…

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X-ray imaging is a prevalent technique for non-invasively visualizing the interior of the human body and opaque instruments. In most commercial x-ray modalities, an image is formed by measuring the x-rays that pass through the object of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 A. Ben Yehuda , O. Sefi , Y. Klein , R. H Shukrun , H. Schwartz , E. Cohen , S. Shwartz

Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Wenjun Xia , Yongyi Shi , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Cone-beam CT (CBCT)-based online adaptive radiotherapy calls for accurate auto-segmentation to reduce the time cost for physicians to edit contours. However, deep learning (DL)-based direct segmentation of CBCT images is a challenging task,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Ti Bai , Michael Dohopolski , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective method to reduce the radiation exposure in medical imaging. To reduce the severe streaking artifacts that occur in reconstructed images due to violation of the Nyquist/Shannon sampling…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Huiying Li , Yizhuang Song

Partial Volume effects are present at the boundary between any two types of material in a CT image due to the scanner's Point Spread Function, finite voxel resolution, and importantly, the discrepancy in radiodensity between the two…

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Unlike previous works, this open data collection consists of X-ray cone-beam (CB) computed tomography (CT) datasets specifically designed for machine learning applications and high cone-angle artefact reduction. Forty-two walnuts were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Henri Der Sarkissian , Felix Lucka , Maureen van Eijnatten , Giulia Colacicco , Sophia Bethany Coban , Kees Joost Batenburg

Computed tomography (CT) relies on precise patient immobilization during image acquisition. Nevertheless, motion artifacts in the reconstructed images can persist. Motion compensation methods aim to correct such artifacts post-acquisition,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Mareike Thies , Fabian Wagner , Noah Maul , Siyuan Mei , Mingxuan Gu , Laura Pfaff , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Haijun Yu , Andreas Maier

The existence of metallic implants in projection images for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) introduces undesired artifacts which degrade the quality of reconstructed images. In order to reduce metal artifacts, projection inpainting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Fuxin Fan , Yangkong Wang , Ludwig Ritschl , Ramyar Biniazan , Marcel Beister , Björn Kreher , Yixing Huang , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Sparse-view Computed Tomography (CT) image reconstruction is a promising approach to reduce radiation exposure, but it inevitably leads to image degradation. Although diffusion model-based approaches are computationally expensive and suffer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Hanyu Chen , Zhixiu Hao , Lin Guo , Liying Xiao

Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…

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Attenuation correction is an essential requirement of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction to allow for accurate quantification. However, attenuation correction is particularly challenging for PET-MRI as neither PET nor…

This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Johannes Thalhammer , Manuel Schultheiss , Tina Dorosti , Tobias Lasser , Franz Pfeiffer , Daniela Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

AIMS: Clinical radiographic imaging is seated upon the principle of differential keV photon transmission through an object. At clinical x-ray energies the scattering of photons causes signal noise and is utilized solely for transmission…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ida Häggström , Lukas M. Carter , Thomas J. Fuchs , Adam L. Kesner

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Computed tomography is a method for synthesizing volumetric or cross-sectional images of an object from a collection of projections. Popular reconstruction methods for computed tomography are based on idealized models and assumptions that…

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