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Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) technique, which reduces the radiation harm to human bodies, is now attracting increasing interest in the medical imaging field. As the image quality is degraded by low dose radiation, LDCT exams require…

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The sparse-views x-ray computed tomography (CT) is essential for medical diagnosis and industrial nondestructive testing. However, in particular, the reconstructed image usually suffers from complex artifacts and noise, when the sampling is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Genwei Ma , Yining Zhu , Xing Zhao

To leverage advancements in machine learning for metallic materials design and property prediction, it is crucial to develop a data-reduced representation of metal microstructures that surpasses the limitations of current physics-based…

Inspired by their success in solving challenging inverse problems in computer vision, implicit neural representations (INRs) have been recently proposed for reconstruction in low-dose/sparse-view X-ray computed tomography (CT). An INR…

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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

The radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) examinations is harmful for patients but can be significantly reduced by intuitively decreasing the number of projection views. Reducing projection views usually leads to severe aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bing Guan , Cailian Yang , Liu Zhang , Shanzhou Niu , Minghui Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

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

One of the major challenges in design and developing of PET, scanners are the presence of inactive areas between the detector blocks which degrade the image spatial resolution and leads to streaking artifacts especially when we employ…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Isaac Shiri , Peyman Sheikhzadeh , Mohammad Reza Ay

Image compression is one of the essential methods of image processing. Its most prominent advantage is the significant reduction of image size allowing for more efficient storage and transfer. However, lossy compression is associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Patryk Najgebauer , Rafal Scherer , Leszek Rutkowski

This paper provides a fast and patient-specific scatter artifact correction method for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) used in image-guided interventional procedures. Due to increased irradiated volume of interest in CBCT imaging,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Wei Zhao , Stephen Brunner , Kai Niu , Sebastian Schafer , Kevin Royalty , Guang-Hong Chen

In this article, we present a denoising algorithm to improve the interpretation and quality of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. Given the high level of self-similarity of STM images, we propose a denoising algorithm by…

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In fully sampled cardiac MR (CMR) acquisitions, motion can lead to corruption of k-space lines, which can result in artefacts in the reconstructed images. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically detect and correct motion-related…

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In the present work, we propose a Self-supervised COordinate Projection nEtwork (SCOPE) to reconstruct the artifacts-free CT image from a single SV sinogram by solving the inverse tomography imaging problem. Compared with recent related…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Qing Wu , Ruimin Feng , Hongjiang Wei , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Objective: X-ray computed tomography employing sparse projection views has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. However, due to the inadequate number of projection views, an analytic reconstruction method…

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This preliminary study focuses on the development of a medical image segmentation algorithm based on artificial intelligence for calculating bone growth in contact with metallic implants. %as a result of the problem of estimating the growth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Fernando García-Torres , Carmen Mínguez-Porter , Julia Tomás-Chenoll , Sofía Iranzo-Egea , Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois

Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

Detecting and localizing image manipulation are necessary to counter malicious use of image editing techniques. Accordingly, it is essential to distinguish between authentic and tampered regions by analyzing intrinsic statistics in an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Myung-Joon Kwon , Seung-Hun Nam , In-Jae Yu , Heung-Kyu Lee , Changick Kim

Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential part of modern science and medicine. A CT scanner consists of an X-ray source that is spun around an object of interest. On the opposite end of the X-ray source, a detector captures X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Thomas Germer , Jan Robine , Sebastian Konietzny , Stefan Harmeling , Tobias Uelwer

Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hari Om Aggrawal , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , Sean Rose , Emil Y. Sidky

Partial Volume effects are present at the boundary between any two types of material in a CT image due to the scanner's Point Spread Function, finite voxel resolution, and importantly, the discrepancy in radiodensity between the two…

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