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During the computed tomography (CT) imaging process, metallic implants within patients often cause harmful artifacts, which adversely degrade the visual quality of reconstructed CT images and negatively affect the subsequent clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is a challenging problem in computed tomography (CT) imaging. A popular class of MAR methods replace sinogram measurements that are corrupted by metal with artificial data. While these ``projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 T. Humphries , J. Wang

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

Metal artefact reduction (MAR) techniques aim at removing metal-induced noise from clinical images. In Computed Tomography (CT), supervised deep learning approaches have been shown effective but limited in generalisability, as they mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Marta B. M. Ranzini , Irme Groothuis , Kerstin Kläser , M. Jorge Cardoso , Johann Henckel , Sébastien Ourselin , Alister Hart , Marc Modat

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

Metallic implants introduce severe artifacts in CT images, which degrades the image quality. It is an effective method to reduce metal artifacts by replacing the metal affected projection with the forward projection of a prior image. How to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Yanbo Zhang , Xuanqian Mou

Inconsistent responses of X-ray detector elements lead to stripe artifacts in the sinogram data, which manifest as ring artifacts in the reconstructed CT images, severely degrading image quality. This paper proposes a method for correcting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ligen Shi , Xu Jiang , YunZe Liu , Chang Liu , Ping Yang , Shifeng Guo , Xing Zhao

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

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

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) plays a key role in dental diagnosis and surgery. However, the metal teeth implants could bring annoying metal artifacts during the CBCT imaging process, interfering diagnosis and downstream processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuxuan Shi , Jun Xu , Dinggang Shen

This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon , Jin Keun Seo

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in the medical, industrial, and other fields to nondestructively generate three-dimensional structural images of objects. However, CT images are often affected by various artifacts, with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yang Zou , Meili Qi , Jianhua Zhang , Difei Zhang , Shuwei Wang , Jiale Zhang , Shengkun Yao , Huaidong Jiang

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

The presence of metal implants within CT imaging causes severe attenuation of the X-ray beam. Due to the incomplete information recorded by CT detectors, artifacts in the form of streaks and dark bands would appear in the resulting CT…

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

Computed Tomography (CT) is an imaging technique where information about an object are collected at different angles (called projections or scans). Then the cross-sectional image showing the internal structure of the slice is produced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Zhengchun Liu , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

CT images corrupted by metal artifacts have serious negative effects on clinical diagnosis. Considering the difficulty of collecting paired data with ground truth in clinical settings, unsupervised methods for metal artifact reduction are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Wangduo Xie , Matthew B. Blaschko

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images can significantly degrade image quality and impede accurate diagnosis. Supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods, trained using simulated datasets, often struggle to perform well on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Chenglong Ma , Zilong Li , Yuanlin Li , Jing Han , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jiannan Liu , Hongming Shan

For the task of metal artifact reduction (MAR), although deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved promising performances, most of them suffer from two problems: 1) the CT imaging geometry constraint is not fully embedded into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Kai Ma , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

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