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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

The reconstruction of images from their corresponding noisy Radon transform is a typical example of an ill-posed linear inverse problem as arising in the application of computerized tomography (CT). As the (naive) solution does not depend…

The reconstruction of images from measured data is an increasing field of research. For highly under-determined problems, template-based image reconstruction provides a way of compensating for the lack of sufficient data. A caveat of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Sebastian Neumayer , Antonia Topalovic

We introduce a new CT image reconstruction algorithm that is less affected by various artifacts. The new reconstruction algorithm is a method of minimizing the difference between synchrotron X-ray tomography data and sinograms generated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Byung Chun Kim , Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

The field of medical image reconstruction has seen roughly four types of methods. The first type tended to be analytical methods, such as filtered back-projection (FBP) for X-ray computed tomography (CT) and the inverse Fourier transform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Jong Chul Ye , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Maria Angela Narduzzo

Low-dose Computed Tomography is a common issue in reality. Current reduction, sparse sampling and limited-view scanning can all cause it. Between them, limited-view CT is general in the industry due to inevitable mechanical and physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Ken Deng , Chang Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

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

Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jussi Toivanen , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Ville Kolehmainen

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-11 D. M. Pelt , K. J. Batenburg

The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Kang Yang , Kevin Yang , Xintie Yang , Shuang-Ren Zhao

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

The development of computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction methods that significantly reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining high image quality is an important area of research in low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-14 Xuehang Zheng , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang

In this paper, we present XctDiff, an algorithm framework for reconstructing CT from a single radiograph, which decomposes the reconstruction process into two easily controllable tasks: feature extraction and CT reconstruction.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Qingze Bai , Tiange Liu , Zhi Liu , Yubing Tong , Drew Torigian , Jayaram Udupa

Three different computed tomography (CT) reconstruction algorithms: Filtered Back Projection (FBP), Unified Tomographic Reconstruction (UTR) and customized Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (cSART), have been systematically…

For conventional computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction tasks, the most popular method is the so-called filtered-back-projection (FBP) algorithm. In it, the acquired Radon projections are usually filtered first by a ramp kernel…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Yongshuai Ge , Qiyang Zhang , Zhanli Hu , Jianwei Chen , Wei Shi , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang

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

One of the advantages of spectral computed tomography (CT) is it can achieve accurate material components using the material decomposition methods. The image-based material decomposition is a common method to obtain specific material…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Weiwen Wu , Peijun Chen , Vince Vardhanabhuti , Weifei Wu , Hengyong Yu