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Recently, a number of approaches to low-dose computed tomography (CT) have been developed and deployed in commercialized CT scanners. Tube current reduction is perhaps the most actively explored technology with advanced image reconstruction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Hoyeon Lee , Jongha Lee , Hyeongseok Kim , Byungchul Cho , Seungryong Cho

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used, highly sensitive molecular imaging in clinical diagnosis. There is interest in reducing the radiation exposure from PET but also maintaining adequate image quality. Recent methods using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuxin Xue , Lei Bi , Yige Peng , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkable performance in positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction. In particular, CNN-based direct PET image reconstruction, which directly generates the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote

Accurate synthesis of computed tomography (CT) images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is clinically valuable for cranial applications such as attenuation correction, radiotherapy planning, and image-guided interventions. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Zhuoyao Xin , Yiren Zhang , Christopher Wu , Dong Liu , Chunming Gu , Elena Greco , Erik H. Middlebrooks , Jun Hua , Jia Guo

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of modern radiology. The ability to detect cancer and metastases in whole body scans fundamentally changed cancer diagnosis and treatment. One of the main bottlenecks in the clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ida Häggström , C. Ross Schmidtlein , Gabriele Campanella , Thomas J. Fuchs

Providing more precise tissue attenuation information, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to improved radiation therapy treatment planning. In our study, we employ the advanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Fuxin Fan , Jingna Qiu , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

MRI-guided radiation treatment planning is widely applied because of its superior soft-tissue contrast and no ionization radiation compared to CT-based planning. In this regard, synthetic CT (sCT) images should be generated from the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Abbas Bahrami , Alireza Karimian , Hossein Arabi

Purpose: To assess the feasibility of deep learning-based high resolution synthetic CT generation from MRI scans of the lower arm for orthopedic applications. Methods: A conditional Generative Adversarial Network was trained to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Frank Zijlstra , Koen Willemsen , Mateusz C. Florkow , Ralph J. B. Sakkers , Harrie H. Weinans , Bart C. H. van der Wal , Marijn van Stralen , Peter R. Seevinck

Recently, more and more attention is drawn to the field of medical image synthesis across modalities. Among them, the synthesis of computed tomography (CT) image from T1-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) image is of great importance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Xiyao Jin , Dong Nie , Yu Qiao , Dinggang Shen

Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods for the generation of synthetic computed tomography (sCT) have received significant research attention as an alternative to classical ones. We present here a systematic review of these methods by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Maria Francesca Spadea , Matteo Maspero , Paolo Zaffino , Joao Seco

This paper reviewed the machine learning-based studies for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of machine learning-based methods in PET attenuation correction and low-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Tonghe Wang , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

Synthetic CT image generation from MRI scan is necessary to create radiotherapy plans without the need of co-registered MRI and CT scans. The chosen baseline adversarial model with cycle consistency permits unpaired image-to-image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Denis Prokopenko , Joël Valentin Stadelmann , Heinrich Schulz , Steffen Renisch , Dmitry V. Dylov

Personalized computed tomography (CT) dosimetry has great potential in assessing patient-specific radiation exposure, supporting risk assessment, and optimizing clinical protocols. The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Marie-Luise Kuhlmann , Jörg Martin , Stefan Pojtinger

The integrated positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanner facilitates the simultaneous acquisition of metabolic information via PET and morphological information with high soft-tissue contrast using MRI.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hidetoshi Matsuo , Mizuho Nishio , Munenobu Nogami , Feibi Zeng , Takako Kurimoto , Sandeep Kaushik , Florian Wiesinger , Atsushi K Kono , Takamichi Murakami

This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Ruyi Zha , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Purpose: This study assessed the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic CT images generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for focal brain radiation therapy, using a deep learning approach. Material and Methods: We conducted a study…

Image reconstruction for positron emission tomography (PET) is challenging because of the ill-conditioned tomographic problem and low counting statistics. Kernel methods address this challenge by using kernel representation to incorporate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang