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Ultrasound imaging (US) often suffers from distinct image artifacts from various sources. Classic approaches for solving these problems are usually model-based iterative approaches that have been developed specifically for each type of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Jaeyoung Huh , Shujaat Khan , Jong Chul Ye

Metal implants and other high-density objects in patients introduce severe streaking artifacts in CT images, compromising image quality and diagnostic performance. Although various methods were developed for CT metal artifact reduction over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Zilong Li , Qi Gao , Yaping Wu , Chuang Niu , Junping Zhang , Meiyun Wang , Ge Wang , Hongming Shan

Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

Metal artifacts from high-attenuation implants severely degrade CT image quality, obscuring critical anatomical structures and posing a challenge for standard deep learning methods that require extensive paired training data. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahmet Rasim Emirdagi , Süleyman Aslan , Mısra Yavuz , Görkay Aydemir , Yunus Bilge Kurt , Nasrin Rahimi , Burak Can Biner , M. Akın Yılmaz

With the development of deep learning, supervised learning has frequently been adopted to classify remotely sensed images using convolutional networks (CNNs). However, due to the limited amount of labeled data available, supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Daoyu Lin , Kun Fu , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Xian Sun

We consider unsupervised cell nuclei segmentation in this paper. Exploiting the recently-proposed unpaired image-to-image translation between cell nuclei images and randomly synthetic masks, existing approaches, e.g., CycleGAN, have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Kai Yao , Kaizhu Huang , Jie Sun , Curran Jude

Our work focuses on unsupervised and generative methods that address the following goals: (a) learning unsupervised generative representations that discover latent factors controlling image semantic attributes, (b) studying how this ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 William Paul , I-Jeng Wang , Fady Alajaji , Philippe Burlina

Due to the presence of metallic implants, the imaging quality of computed tomography (CT) would be heavily degraded. With the rapid development of deep learning, several network models have been proposed for metal artifact reduction (MAR).…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

We present a new deep supervised learning method for intrinsic decomposition of a single image into its albedo and shading components. Our contributions are based on a new fully convolutional neural network that estimates absolute albedo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Louis Lettry , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc Van Gool

Artifacts in kilo-Voltage CT (kVCT) imaging degrade image quality, impacting clinical decisions. We propose a deep learning framework for metal artifact reduction (MAR) and domain transformation from kVCT to Mega-Voltage CT (MVCT). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mubashara Rehman , Niki Martinel , Michele Avanzo , Riccardo Spizzo , Christian Micheloni

The positive outcome of a trauma intervention depends on an intraoperative evaluation of inserted metallic implants. Due to occurring metal artifacts, the quality of this evaluation heavily depends on the performance of so-called Metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

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

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are optimized for the distribution represented by the training data. For outlier data, they often deliver predictions with equal confidence, even though these should not be trusted. In order to deploy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Milda Pocevičiūtė , Gabriel Eilertsen , Claes Lundström

Unsupervised learning can discover various unseen abnormalities, relying on large-scale unannotated medical images of healthy subjects. Towards this, unsupervised methods reconstruct a 2D/3D single medical image to detect outliers either in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Changhee Han , Leonardo Rundo , Kohei Murao , Tomoyuki Noguchi , Yuki Shimahara , Zoltan Adam Milacski , Saori Koshino , Evis Sala , Hideki Nakayama , Shinichi Satoh

In-scanner motion degrades the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thereby reducing its utility in the detection of clinically relevant abnormalities. We introduce a deep learning-based MRI artifact reduction model (DMAR) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yijun Zhao , Jacek Ossowski , Xuming Wang , Shangjin Li , Orrin Devinsky , Samantha P. Martin , Heath R. Pardoe

Automated pathology segmentation remains a valuable diagnostic tool in clinical practice. However, collecting training data is challenging. Semi-supervised approaches by combining labelled and unlabelled data can offer a solution to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Haochuan Jiang , Agisilaos Chartsias , Xinheng Zhang , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Scott Semple , Mark Dweck , David Semple , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Diffusion-weighted MRI is nowadays performed routinely due to its prognostic ability, yet the quality of the scans are often unsatisfactory which can subsequently hamper the clinical utility. To overcome the limitations, here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyun Kim , Jeong Hee Yoon , Jeong Min Lee , Jong Chul Ye

An attention guided scheme for metal artifact correction in MRI using deep neural network is proposed in this paper. The inputs of the networks are two distorted images obtained with dual-polarity readout gradients. With MR image generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Jee Won Kim , Kinam Kwon , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park

We present a new approach for representing and reconstructing multidimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Our method builds on a novel, learned feature-based image representation that disentangles different types of features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Ruiyang Zhao , Fan Lam