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Motion artifacts can compromise the diagnostic value of computed tomography (CT) images. Motion correction approaches require a per-scan estimation of patient-specific motion patterns. In this work, we train a score-based model to act as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Mareike Thies , Noah Maul , Siyuan Mei , Laura Pfaff , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Mingxuan Gu , Jonas Utz , Dennis Possart , Lukas Folle , Fabian Wagner , Andreas Maier

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

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) typically requires hundreds of X-ray projections, which raises concerns about radiation exposure. While sparse-view reconstruction reduces the exposure by using fewer projections, it struggles to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Meng-Xun Li , Jin-Gang Yu , Yuan Gao , Cui Huang , Gui-Song Xia

Accurate dose calculations in proton therapy rely on high-quality CT images. While planning CTs (pCTs) serve as a reference for dosimetric planning, Cone Beam CT (CBCT) is used throughout Adaptive Radiotherapy (ART) to generate sCTs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 David Vallmanya Poch , Yorick Estievenart , Elnura Zhalieva , Sukanya Patra , Mohammad Yaqub , Souhaib Ben Taieb

CBCTs in image-guided radiotherapy provide crucial anatomy information for patient setup and plan evaluation. Longitudinal CBCT image registration could quantify the inter-fractional anatomic changes. The purpose of this study is to propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Huiqiao Xie , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Jeffrey D. Bradley , Pretesh Patel , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) using only a few X-ray projection views enables faster scans with lower radiation dose, but the resulting severe under-sampling causes strong artifacts and poor spatial coverage. We address these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Minmin Yang , Huantao Ren , Senem Velipasalar

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays an important role in the diagnoses and treatment of cardiovascular diseases while motion artifacts which are formed during the scanning process of CMR seriously affects doctors to find the exact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Yunxuan Zhang , Weiliang Zhang , Qinyan Zhang , Jijiang Yang , Xiuyu Chen , Shihua Zhao

The cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) technique was first inserted in dental imaging 15 years ago. Due to this technique 3D imaging in dentistry has been excessively changed. The purpose beyond using CBCT instead of computed tomography…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Kaspar Höschel , Janos Juhasz

Cone-beam tomography enables rapid 3D acquisitions, making it a suitable imaging modality for dental imaging. However, as with all X-ray techniques, the main challenge is to reduce the dose while maintaining good image quality. Moreover,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Louise Friot--Giroux , Françoise Peyrin , Voichiţa Maxim

The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning based method that can automatically generate segmentations on cone-beam CT (CBCT) for head and neck online adaptive radiation therapy (ART), where expert-drawn contours in planning CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Deep learning methods provide significant assistance in analyzing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in chest computed tomography (CT) images, including identification, severity assessment, and segmentation. Although the earlier developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Stanislav Shimovolos , Andrey Shushko , Mikhail Belyaev , Boris Shirokikh

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used in medical imaging. However, the limited number and intensity of X-ray projections make reconstruction an ill-posed problem with severe artifacts. NeRF-based methods have achieved great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Zhuowei Xu , Han Li , Dai Sun , Zhicheng Li , Yujia Li , Qingpeng Kong , Zhiwei Cheng , Nassir Navab , S. Kevin Zhou

Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Dirk Elias Schut , Adriaan Graas , Robert van Liere , Tristan van Leeuwen

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used in interventional surgeries and radiation oncology. Due to the limited size of flat-panel detectors, anatomical structures might be missing outside the limited field-of-view (FOV), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yixing Huang , Fuxin Fan , Ahmed Gomaa , Andreas Maier , Rainer Fietkau , Christoph Bert , Florian Putz

When a measurement falls outside the quantization or measurable range, it becomes saturated and cannot be used in classical reconstruction methods. For example, in C-arm angiography systems, which provide projection radiography,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Xiaolin Huang , Yan Xia , Lei Shi , Yixing Huang , Ming Yan , Joachim Hornegger , Andreas Maier

Cone-beam breast computed tomography (CT) provides true 3D breast images with isotropic resolution and high-contrast information, detecting calcifications as small as a few hundred microns and revealing subtle tissue differences. However,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Wenxiang Cong , Hongming Shan , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Ge Wang

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is one of the most important research topics in computed tomography (CT). With the advance of deep learning technology for image reconstruction,various deep learning methods have been also suggested for metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Junghyun Lee , Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

Defective and inconsistent responses in CT detectors can cause ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them unusable for clinical purposes. In recent years, several ring artifact reduction solutions have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongxu Yang , Levente Lippenszky , Edina Timko , Gopal Avinash

Purpose: To develop a pipeline for motion artifact correction in mGRE and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). Methods: Deep learning is integrated with autofocus to improve motion artifact suppression, which is applied QSM of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Chao Li , Jinwei Zhang , Hang Zhang , Jiahao Li , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

Sparse-view cone-beam CT (CBCT) reconstruction is an important direction to reduce radiation dose and benefit clinical applications. Previous voxel-based generation methods represent the CT as discrete voxels, resulting in high memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Yiqun Lin , Zhongjin Luo , Wei Zhao , Xiaomeng Li