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Metal artifacts caused by the presence of metallic implants tremendously degrade the reconstructed computed tomography (CT) image quality, affecting clinical diagnosis or reducing the accuracy of organ delineation and dose calculation in…

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

In this paper, we develop an efficient retrospective deep learning method called stacked U-Nets with self-assisted priors to address the problem of rigid motion artifacts in MRI. The proposed work exploits the usage of additional knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Mohammed A. Al-masni , Seul Lee , Jaeuk Yi , Sewook Kim , Sung-Min Gho , Young Hun Choi , Dong-Hyun Kim

Computed tomography (CT) has been widely used for medical diagnosis, assessment, and therapy planning and guidance. In reality, CT images may be affected adversely in the presence of metallic objects, which could lead to severe metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Lequan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Lei Xing

We propose an end-to-end-trainable attention module for convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures built for image classification. The module takes as input the 2D feature vector maps which form the intermediate representations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Saumya Jetley , Nicholas A. Lord , Namhoon Lee , Philip H. S. Torr

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

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a valuable tool to map brain microstructure and connectivity by analyzing water molecule diffusion in tissue. However, acquiring dMRI data requires to capture multiple 3D brain volumes in a short time, often leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Sedigheh Dargahi , Sylvain Bouix , Christian Desrosiers

Motion artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) arise due to relatively long acquisition times and can compromise the clinical utility of acquired images. Traditional motion correction methods often fail to address severe motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Christian Weihsbach , Mattias P. Heinrich

Metal artifact correction is a challenging problem in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning. Metal implants inserted into the anatomy cause severe artifacts in reconstructed images. Widely used inpainting-based metal artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Harshit Agrawal , Ari Hietanen , Simo Särkkä

In the presence of metal implants, metal artifacts are introduced to x-ray CT images. Although a large number of metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed in the past decades, MAR is still one of the major problems in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Yanbo Zhang , Hengyong Yu

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

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Text-guided image generation and editing using diffusion models have achieved remarkable advancements. Among these, tuning-free methods have gained attention for their ability to perform edits without extensive model adjustments, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wenyi Mo , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Bing Su , Ji-Rong Wen

Current deep neural network based approaches to computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) are supervised methods that rely on synthesized metal artifacts for training. However, as synthesized data may not accurately simulate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Background: To systematically review and perform a meta-analysis of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven methods for detecting and correcting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) motion artifacts, assessing current developments, effectiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Richard L. J. Qiu , Matthew Goette , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for diagnosis of cardiac diseases thanks to its ability to present cardiovascular features in excellent contrast. As compared to computed tomography (CT), MRI, however, requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Yibin Xie , Debiao Li , Ge Wang

An approach to reduce motion artifacts in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping using deep learning is proposed. We use an affine motion model with randomly created motion profiles to simulate motion-corrupted QSM images. The simulated QSM…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Chao Li , Hang Zhang , Jinwei Zhang , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

Metal Artifacts creates often difficulties for a high quality visual assessment of post-operative imaging in {c}omputed {t}omography (CT). A vast body of methods have been proposed to tackle this issue, but {these} methods were designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wang Zihao , Vandersteen Clair , Demarcy Thomas , Gnansia Dan , Raffaelli Charles , Guevara Nicolas , Delingette Herve

Motion artifacts are a pervasive problem in MRI, leading to misdiagnosis or mischaracterization in population-level imaging studies. Current retrospective rigid intra-slice motion correction techniques jointly optimize estimates of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Nalini M. Singh , Neel Dey , Malte Hoffmann , Bruce Fischl , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Robert Frost , Adrian V. Dalca , Polina Golland

For several years, numerous attempts have been made to reduce noise and artifacts in MRI. Although there have been many successful methods to address these problems, practical implementation for clinical images is still challenging because…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Daiki Tamada

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) imaging pose significant challenges to accurate clinical diagnosis. The presence of high-density metallic implants results in artifacts that deteriorate image quality, manifesting in the forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Xinrui Zhang , Ailong Cai , Shaoyu Wang , Linyuan Wang , Zhizhong Zheng , Lei Li , Bin Yan