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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

Computer-aided diagnosis for low-dose computed tomography (CT) based on deep learning has recently attracted attention as a first-line automatic testing tool because of its high accuracy and low radiation exposure. However, existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Kyung-Su Kim , Seong Je Oh , Ju Hwan Lee , Myung Jin Chung

As one of the most commonly ordered imaging tests, computed tomography (CT) scan comes with inevitable radiation exposure that increases the cancer risk to patients. However, CT image quality is directly related to radiation dose, thus it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Xiaowe Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Jinglan Liu , Yukun Ding , Tianchen Wang , Hailong Qiu , Haiyun Yuan , Jian Zhuang , Wen Xie , Yuhao Dong , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Yiyu Shi

This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Ruyi Zha , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) offers improved diagnostic performance through better spatial and energy resolution, but developing high-quality image reconstruction methods that can deal with these large datasets is challenging. Model-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Alma Eguizabal , Ozan Öktem , Mats U. Persson

Given a monocular face image as input, 3D face geometry reconstruction aims to recover a corresponding 3D face mesh. Recently, both optimization-based and learning-based face reconstruction methods have taken advantage of the emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jingtan Piao , Keqiang Sun , KwanYee Lin , Quan Wang , Hongsheng Li

X-ray CT often suffers from shadowing and streaking artifacts in the presence of metallic materials, which severely degrade imaging quality. Physically, the linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of metals vary significantly with X-ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qing Wu , Xu Guo , Lixuan Chen , Yanyan Liu , Dongming He , Xudong Wang , Xueli Chen , Yifeng Zhang , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

4D time-space reconstruction of dynamic events or deforming objects using X-ray computed tomography (CT) is an important inverse problem in non-destructive evaluation. Conventional back-projection based reconstruction methods assume that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 K. Aditya Mohan , Massimiliano Ferrucci , Chuck Divin , Garrett A. Stevenson , Hyojin Kim

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Accelerated Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) image reconstruction remains a critical challenge due to the trade-off between scan time and image quality, particularly when generalizing across diverse acquisition settings. We propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Kian Anvari Hamedani , Narges Razizadeh , Shahabedin Nabavi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

In computed tomography (CT), data truncation is a common problem. Images reconstructed by the standard filtered back-projection algorithm from truncated data suffer from cupping artifacts inside the field-of-view (FOV), while anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yixing Huang , Lei Gao , Alexander Preuhs , Andreas Maier

While Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) of CT scans has been shown to have better image quality than Filtered Back Projection (FBP), its use has been limited by its high computational cost. More recently, deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-21 Amirkoushyar Ziabari , Dong Hye Ye , Somesh Srivastava , Ken D. Sauer , Jean-Baptiste Thibault , Charles A. Bouman

Three-dimensional coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) demands reconstruction algorithms that can significantly suppress the artifacts from a heavily undersampled acquisition. While unrolling-based deep reconstruction methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Zhihao Xue , Fan Yang , Juan Gao , Zhuo Chen , Hao Peng , Chao Zou , Hang Jin , Chenxi Hu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) transform low-dimensional latent vectors into visually plausible images. If the real dataset contains only clean images, then ostensibly, the manifold learned by the GAN should contain only clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Subarna Tripathi , Zachary C. Lipton , Truong Q. Nguyen

In unsupervised medical image registration, the predominant approaches involve the utilization of a encoder-decoder network architecture, allowing for precise prediction of dense, full-resolution displacement fields from given paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xi Jia , Wenqi Lu , Xinxing Cheng , Jinming Duan

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

Recently, a number of approaches to low-dose computed tomography (CT) have been developed and deployed in commercialized CT scanners. Tube current reduction is perhaps the most actively explored technology with advanced image reconstruction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Hoyeon Lee , Jongha Lee , Hyeongseok Kim , Byungchul Cho , Seungryong Cho

This article presents a convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal 3D MR images based on a U-net architecture.We evaluate the use of a densely connected convolutional network encoder (DenseNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jean Stawiaski

This paper addresses two crucial problems of learning disentangled image representations, namely controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, and balancing the disentanglement strength and the reconstruction quality. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zengjie Song , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Jiangshe Zhang

In recent years, diverging-wave (DW) ultrasound imaging has become a very promising methodology for cardiovascular imaging due to its high temporal resolution. However, if they are limited in number, DW transmits provide lower image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Jingfeng Lu , Fabien Millioz , Damien Garcia , Sebastien Salles , Wanyu Liu , Denis Friboulet