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Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qiaoqiao Ding , Hui Ji , Yuhui Quan , Xiaoqun Zhang

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

Purpose: To introduce a fast and improved direct reconstruction method for multi-shot diffusion weighted (msDW) scans for high-resolution studies. Methods:Multi-shot EPI methods can enable higher spatial resolution for diffusion MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Merry Mani , Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Vincent Magnotta , Mathews Jacob

Deep-learning methods have shown promising performance for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. However, supervised methods face the problem of lacking labeled data in clinical scenarios, and the CNN-based unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Ran An , Ke Chen , Hongwei Li

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Hung Nien , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Compressive sensing (CS) has proved effective for tomographic reconstruction from sparsely collected data or under-sampled measurements, which are practically important for few-view CT, tomosynthesis, interior tomography, and so on. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Yunjin Chen , Junfeng Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Huaiqiaing Sun , Yang Lv , Peixi Liao , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

We propose a novel Learned Alternating Minimization Algorithm (LAMA) for dual-domain sparse-view CT image reconstruction. LAMA is naturally induced by a variational model for CT reconstruction with learnable nonsmooth nonconvex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chi Ding , Qingchao Zhang , Ge Wang , Xiaojing Ye , Yunmei Chen

Computed Tomography (CT) is a vital diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet the health risks associated with ionizing radiation cannot be overlooked. Low-dose CT (LDCT) helps mitigate radiation exposure but simultaneously leads to reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guoliang Gong , Man Yu

When reconstructing images from noisy measurements, such as in medical scans or scientific imaging, we face an inverse problem: recovering an unknown image from indirect, corrupted observations. These problems are typically ill-posed,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Toluwani Okunola , Mirjeta Pasha , Misha E. Kilmer

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Computed Tomography (CT) is an essential non-destructive three dimensional imaging modality used in medicine, security screening, and inspection of manufactured components. Typical CT data acquisition entails the collection of a thousand or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Kyle M. Champley , Michael B. Zellner , Joseph W. Tringe , Harry E. Martz

We address the problem of sparse recovery in an online setting, where random linear measurements of a sparse signal are revealed sequentially and the objective is to recover the underlying signal. We propose a reweighted least squares (RLS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Subhadip Mukherjee , Deepak R. , Huaijin Chen , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) offers significant advantages in reducing the potential harm to human bodies. However, reducing the X-ray dose in CT scanning often leads to severe noise and artifacts in the reconstructed images, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Ran An , Yinghui Zhang , Xi Chen , Lemeng Li , Ke Chen , Hongwei Li

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Ultra low radiation dose in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important clinical objective in order to minimize the risk of carcinogenesis. Compressed Sensing (CS) enables significant reductions in radiation dose to be achieved by…

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging modality for breast imaging. Image reconstruction methods that incorporate accurate wave physics produce high resolution quantitative images of acoustic properties but are computationally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Luke Lozenski , Hanchen Wang , Fu Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin , Umberto Villa

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction techniques can reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining acceptable imaging quality. Deep learning is widely used in this problem, but the performance of testing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Kecheng Chen , Jie Liu , Renjie Wan , Victor Ho-Fun Lee , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Hong Yan , Haoliang Li

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

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