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To reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted much attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will lead to significant deterioration of the image quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Recently, deep learning approaches have been extensively studied for low-dose CT denoising thanks to its superior performance despite the fast computational time. In particular, cycleGAN has been demonstrated as a powerful unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

In coronary CT angiography, a series of CT images are taken at different levels of radiation dose during the examination. Although this reduces the total radiation dose, the image quality during the low-dose phases is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Eunhee Kang , Hyun Jung Koo , Dong Hyun Yang , Joon Bum Seo , Jong Chul Ye

This paper introduces a novel approach to image denoising that leverages the advantages of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Specifically, we propose a model that combines elements of the Pix2Pix model and the Wasserstein GAN (WGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Luca Tirel , Ali Mohamed Ali , Hashim A. Hashim

Most of the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based CT image denoising literature shows that DNNs outperform traditional iterative methods in terms of metrics such as the RMSE, the PSNR and the SSIM. In many instances, using the same metrics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Prabhat KC , Rongping Zeng , M. Mehdi Farhangi , Kyle J. Myers

Limited angle CT reconstruction is an under-determined linear inverse problem that requires appropriate regularization techniques to be solved. In this work we study how pre-trained generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle M. Champley

Removing the shape noise from the observed weak lensing field, i.e., denoising, enhances the potential of WL by accessing information at small scales where the shape noise dominates without denoising. We utilise two machine learning (ML)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Shohei D. Aoyama , Ken Osato , Masato Shirasaki

We present a learned image compression system based on GANs, operating at extremely low bitrates. Our proposed framework combines an encoder, decoder/generator and a multi-scale discriminator, which we train jointly for a generative learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen , Fabian Mentzer , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

With the advent of Deep Learning (DL) techniques, especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), data augmentation and generation are quickly evolving domains that have raised much interest recently. However, the DL techniques are data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Umair Javaid , John A. Lee

In this paper, an image recognition algorithm based on the combination of deep learning and generative adversarial network (GAN) is studied, and compared with traditional image recognition methods. The purpose of this study is to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yihao Zhong , Yijing Wei , Yingbin Liang , Xiqing Liu , Rongwei Ji , Yiru Cang

Image denoising aims to remove noise while preserving structural details and perceptual realism, yet distortion-driven methods often produce over-smoothed reconstructions, especially under strong noise and distribution shift. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Image denoising plays a critical role in biomedical and microscopy imaging, especially when acquiring wide-field fluorescence-stained images. This task faces challenges in multiple fronts, including limitations in image acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Qijun Yang , Yating Huang , Lintao Xiang , Hujun Yin

Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction is a challenging reconstruction problem in the fields of CT. With the development of deep learning, the generative adversarial network (GAN) perform well in image restoration by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Ziheng Li , Wenkun Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Ailong Cai , Ningning Liang , Bin Yan , Lei Li

In this work we present an adversarial training algorithm that exploits correlations in video to learn --without supervision-- an image generator model with a disentangled latent space. The proposed methodology requires only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Facundo Tuesca , Lucas C. Uzal

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is extensively used in clinical and preclinical settings to study brain function, however, fMRI data is inherently noisy due to physiological processes, hardware, and external noise. Denoising is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Sima Soltanpour , Arnold Chang , Dan Madularu , Praveen Kulkarni , Craig Ferris , Chris Joslin

Existing deep learning-based approaches for histopathology image analysis require large annotated training sets to achieve good performance; but annotating histopathology images is slow and resource-intensive. Conditional generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Sujata Butte , Haotian Wang , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski

We propose a distributed approach to train deep convolutional generative adversarial neural network (DC-CGANs) models. Our method reduces the imbalance between generator and discriminator by partitioning the training data according to data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Vittorio Gabbi , Junqi Yin , Simona Perotto , Nouamane Laanait

We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

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

Learning single image deraining (SID) networks from an unpaired set of clean and rainy images is practical and valuable as acquiring paired real-world data is almost infeasible. However, without the paired data as the supervision, learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xiang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Kui Jiang , Yufeng Li , Yufeng Huang , Caihua Kong , Longgang Dai , Zhentao Fan