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Segmenting anatomical structures in medical images has been successfully addressed with deep learning methods for a range of applications. However, this success is heavily dependent on the quality of the image that is being segmented. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Ilkay Oksuz , James R. Clough , Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol Anton , Aurelien Bustin , Gastao Cruz , Claudia Prieto , Andrew P. King , Julia A. Schnabel

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Spectral computed tomography has received considerable interest in recent years since spectral measurements contain much richer information about the object of interest. In spectral computed tomography, we are interested in the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Katrine O Bangsgaard , Genoveva Burca , Evelina Ametova , Martin S Andersen , Jakob S Jørgensen

Total variation(TV) regularization is applied to X-Ray computed tomography(CT) in an effort to reduce metal artifacts. Tikhonov regularization with $L^2$ data fidelity term and total variation regularization is augmented in this novel model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Clemens Schiffer

Compensating scarce measurements by inferring them from computational models is a way to address ill-posed inverse problems. We tackle Limited Angle Tomography by completing the set of acquisitions using a generative model and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Emilien Valat , Katayoun Farrahi , Thomas Blumensath

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) imaging has been widely used in clinical diagnosis, non-destructive examination, and public safety inspection. Sparse-view (sparse view) CT has great potential in radiation dose reduction and scan…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Kaichao Liang , Hongkai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Time-resolved CT is an advanced measurement technique that has been widely used to observe dynamic objects, including periodically varying structures such as hearts, lungs, or hearing structures. To reconstruct these objects from CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Qianwei Qu , Christian M. Schlepütz , Marco Stampanoni

This paper focuses on minimizing the time requirement for CT capture through innovative simultaneous x-ray capture method. The state-of-the-art CT imaging methodology captures a sequence of projections during which the internal organ…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Sajib Saha , Murat Tahtali , Andrew Lambert , Mark Pickering

Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang , Qingsong Yang , Jiang Hsieh , Jia Li , Rongjie Lai

Due to its advantages of high temporal and spatial resolution, the technology of simultaneous electroencephalogram-functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) acquisition and analysis has attracted much attention, and has been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Guang Lin , Jianhai Zhang , Yuxi Liu , Tianyang Gao , Wanzeng Kong , Xu Lei , Tao Qiu

Conebeam CT using a circular trajectory is quite often used for various applications due to its relative simple geometry. For conebeam geometry, Feldkamp, Davis and Kress algorithm is regarded as the standard reconstruction method, but this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Yoseob Han , Junyoung Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used for real-time intraoperative imaging due to its low radiation dose and high acquisition speed. However, despite its high resolution, CBCT suffers from significant artifacts and thereby…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Maximilian Tschuchnig , Lukas Lamminger , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Existing medical image super-resolution methods rely on pairs of low- and high- resolution images to learn a mapping in a fully supervised manner. However, such image pairs are often not available in clinical practice. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Hongwei Li , Rameshwara G. N. Prasad , Anjany Sekuboyina , Chen Niu , Siwei Bai , Werner Hemmert , Bjoern Menze

Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-invasive imaging modality with applications ranging from healthcare to security. It reconstructs cross-sectional images of an object using a collection of projection data collected at different angles.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

Metal implants in MRI cause severe artifacts that degrade image quality and hinder clinical diagnosis. Traditional approaches address metal artifact reduction (MAR) and accelerated MRI acquisition as separate problems. We propose MASC, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengyi Lu , Ming Lu , Chongyu Qu , Junchao Zhu , Junlin Guo , Marilyn Lionts , Yanfan Zhu , Yuechen Yang , Tianyuan Yao , Jayasai Rajagopal , Bennett Allan Landman , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Jia , Bin Dong , Yifei Lou , Steve B. Jiang

Metal streak artifacts in X-ray computerized tomography (CT) are rigorously characterized here using the notion of the wavefront set from microlocal analysis. The metal artifacts are caused mainly from the mismatch of the forward model of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Hyoung Suk Park , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Dual-energy computed tomography has great potential in material characterization and identification, whereas the reconstructed material-specific images always suffer from magnified noise and beam hardening artifacts. In this study, a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Zaifeng Shi , Huilong Li , Qingjie Cao , Zhongqi Wang , Ming Cheng

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

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

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