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An X-ray computed tomography (CT), metal artifact reduction (MAR) remains a major challenge because metallic implants violate standard CT forward-model assumptions, producing severe streaking and shadowing artifacts that degrade diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon

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…

In computed tomography (CT), the presence of metallic implants in patients often leads to disruptive artifacts in the reconstructed images, hindering accurate diagnosis. Recently, a large amount of supervised deep learning-based approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Xinquan Yang , Guanqun Zhou , Wei Sun , Youjian Zhang , Zhongya Wang , Jiahui He , Zhicheng Zhang

Purpose: The suppression of motion artefacts from MR images is a challenging task. The purpose of this paper is to develop a standalone novel technique to suppress motion artefacts from MR images using a data-driven deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Kamlesh Pawar , Zhaolin Chen , N. Jon Shah , Gary F. Egan

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

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

In computer tomography, due to the presence of metal implants in the patient body, reconstructed images will suffer from metal artifacts. In order to reduce metal artifacts, metals are typically removed in projection images. Therefore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lin Yuan , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon , Jin Keun Seo

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

Metal artifacts, caused by high-density metallic implants in computed tomography (CT) imaging, severely degrade image quality, complicating diagnosis and treatment planning. While existing deep learning algorithms have achieved notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Farid Tasharofi , Fuxin Fan , Melika Qahqaie , Mareike Thies , Andreas Maier

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is a challenging problem in computed tomography (CT) imaging. A popular class of MAR methods replace sinogram measurements that are corrupted by metal with artificial data. While these ``projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 T. Humphries , J. Wang

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) plays a key role in dental diagnosis and surgery. However, the metal teeth implants could bring annoying metal artifacts during the CBCT imaging process, interfering diagnosis and downstream processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuxuan Shi , Jun Xu , Dinggang Shen

Recent CT Metal Artifacts Reduction (MAR) methods are often based on image-to-image convolutional neural networks for adjustment of corrupted sinograms or images themselves. In this paper, we are exploring the capabilities of a multi-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Artem Pimkin , Alexander Samoylenko , Natalia Antipina , Anna Ovechkina , Andrey Golanov , Alexandra Dalechina , Mikhail Belyaev

Since the invention of modern CT systems, metal artifacts have been a persistent problem. Due to increased scattering, amplified noise, and insufficient data collection, it is more difficult to suppress metal artifacts in cone-beam CT,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Tianling Lyu , Zhan Wu , Gege Ma , Chen Jiang , Xinyun Zhong , Yan Xi , Yang Chen , Wentao Zhu

Metal Artifacts creates often difficulties for a high quality visual assessment of post-operative imaging in {c}omputed {t}omography (CT). A vast body of methods have been proposed to tackle this issue, but {these} methods were designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wang Zihao , Vandersteen Clair , Demarcy Thomas , Gnansia Dan , Raffaelli Charles , Guevara Nicolas , Delingette Herve

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based filters have achieved significant performance in video artifacts reduction. However, the high complexity of existing methods makes it difficult to be applied in real usage. In this paper, a CNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Chao Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto , Xiaoyang Zeng , Yibo Fan

X-ray CT often suffers from shadowing and streaking artifacts in the presence of metallic materials, which severely degrade imaging quality. Physically, the linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of metals vary significantly with X-ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qing Wu , Xu Guo , Lixuan Chen , Yanyan Liu , Dongming He , Xudong Wang , Xueli Chen , Yifeng Zhang , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) that never causes checkerboard artifacts, for image enhancement. In research fields of image-to-image translation problems, it is well-known that images generated by usual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Video quality can suffer from limited internet speed while being streamed by users. Compression artifacts start to appear when the bitrate decreases to match the available bandwidth. Existing algorithms either focus on removing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Wen Ma , Qiuwen Lou , Arman Kazemi , Julian Faraone , Tariq Afzal

We develop and evaluate a neural network-based method for Gibbs artifact and noise removal. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed for artifact removal in diffusion-weighted imaging data. Two implementations were considered: one…