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Computed tomography (CT) is a popular medical imaging modality in clinical applications. At the same time, the x-ray radiation dose associated with CT scans raises public concerns due to its potential risks to the patients. Over the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Chenyu You , Qingsong Yang , Hongming Shan , Lars Gjesteby , Guang Li , Shenghong Ju , Zhuiyang Zhang , Zhen Zhao , Yi Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

The use of deep learning has successfully solved several problems in the field of medical imaging. Deep learning has been applied to the CT denoising problem successfully. However, the use of deep learning requires large amounts of data to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Mayank Patwari , Ralf Gutjahr , Rainer Raupach , Andreas Maier

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised video denoising deep learning approach that can help to mitigate data scarcity issues and shows robustness against different noise patterns, enhancing its broad applicability. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mary Damilola Aiyetigbo , Dineshchandar Ravichandran , Reda Chalhoub , Peter Kalivas , Nianyi Li

In the intention of minimizing excessive X-ray radiation administration to patients, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become a distinct trend in radiology. However, while lowering the radiation dose reduces the risk to the patient,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Long Zhou , Xiaozhuang Wang , Min Hou , Ping Li , Chunlong Fu , Yanjun Ren , Tingting Shao , Xi Hu , Jihong Sun , Hongwei Ye

This work tackles the issue of noise removal from images, focusing on the well-known DCT image denoising algorithm. The latter, stemming from signal processing, has been well studied over the years. Though very simple, it is still used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Sébastien Herbreteau , Charles Kervrann

In contrast to non-medical image denoising, where enhancing image clarity is the primary goal, medical image denoising warrants preservation of crucial features without introduction of new artifacts. However, many denoising methods that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Md. Touhidul Islam , Md. Abtahi M. Chowdhury , Sumaiya Salekin , Aye T. Maung , Akil A. Taki , Hafiz Imtiaz

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Lowering the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) can greatly reduce the potential risk to public health. However, the reconstructed images from the dose-reduced CT or low-dose CT (LDCT) suffer from severe noise, compromising the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Zexin Lu , Wenjun Xia , Yongqiang Huang , Hongming Shan , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Computed tomography (CT) has been used worldwide as a non-invasive test to assist in diagnosis. However, the ionizing nature of X-ray exposure raises concerns about potential health risks such as cancer. The desire for lower radiation doses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Yucheng Lu , Zhixin Xu , Moon Hyung Choi , Jimin Kim , Seung-Won Jung

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

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 this work, a denoising Cycle-GAN (Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial Network) is implemented to yield high-field, high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images from simulated low-field,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Fernando Vega , Abdoljalil Addeh , M. Ethan MacDonald

Low fluence illumination sources can facilitate clinical transition of photoacoustic imaging because they are rugged, portable, affordable, and safe. However, these sources also decrease image quality due to their low fluence. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ali Hariri , Kamran Alipour , Yash Mantri , Jurgen P. Schulze , Jesse V. Jokerst

The Computed Tomography (CT) for diagnosis of lesions in human internal organs is one of the most fundamental topics in medical imaging. Low-dose CT, which offers reduced radiation exposure, is preferred over standard-dose CT, and therefore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wenjie Liu

Many low-dose CT imaging methods rely on supervised learning, which requires a large number of paired noisy and clean images. However, obtaining paired images in clinical practice is challenging. To address this issue, zero-shot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yongyi Shi , Ge Wang

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

Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Lovedeep Gondara

Raman spectroscopy can provide insight into the molecular composition of cells and tissue. Consequently, it can be used as a powerful diagnostic tool, e.g. to help identify changes in molecular contents with the onset of disease. But robust…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Ciaran Bench , Mads S. Bergholt , Mohamed Ali al-Badri

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan