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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,…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique, however it has the limitation of long scanning time. Though previous model-based and learning-based MRI reconstruction methods have shown promising performance, most of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Yue Cai , Yu Luo , Jie Ling , Shun Yao

Here we present new joint reconstruction and regularization techniques inspired by ideas in microlocal analysis and lambda tomography, for the simultaneous reconstruction of the attenuation coefficient and electron density from X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 James Webber , Eric Todd Quinto , Eric L. Miller

Multi-contrast images are commonly acquired together to maximize complementary diagnostic information, albeit at the expense of longer scan times. A time-efficient strategy to acquire high-quality multi-contrast images is to accelerate…

Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

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In order to reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted more and more attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will significantly degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction…

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We propose a model-based image reconstruction method for photoacoustic tomography(PAT) involving a novel form of regularization and demonstrate its ability to recover good quality images from significantly reduced size datasets. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Nadaparambil Aravindakshan Rejesh , Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Manojit Pramanik , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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

Objective. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has the potential to improve contrast, reduce artifacts and the ability to perform material decomposition in advanced imaging applications. The increased number or measurements results with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Alessandro Perelli , Suxer Alfonso Garcia , Alexandre Bousse , Jean-Pierre Tasu , Nikolaos Efthimiadis , Dimitris Visvikis

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) became a clear trend in radiology with an aspiration to refrain from delivering excessive X-ray radiation to the patients. The reduction of the radiation dose decreases the risks to the patients but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Elvira Zainulina , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Dmitry V. Dylov

Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods have shown potential to substantially improve the image quality of low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) as compared to the conventional filtered back-projection (FBP) method for various…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Hao Zhang , Jing Wang , Jianhua Ma , Hongbing Lu , Zhengrong Liang

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in CT imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

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

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

Repeated computed tomography (CT) scans are required in some clinical applications such as image-guided radiotherapy and follow-up observations over a time period. To optimize the radiation dose utility, a normal-dose (or full-dose) CT scan…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Hao Zhang , Jianhua Ma , William Moore , Zhengrong Liang

The importance of regularization has been well established in image reconstruction -- which is the computational inversion of imaging forward model -- with applications including deconvolution for microscopy, tomographic reconstruction,…

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