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In the intention of minimizing excessive X-ray radiation administration to patients, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become a distinct trend in radiology. However, while lowering the radiation dose reduces the risk to the patient,…
We propose a new relative-error inexact version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for convex optimization. We prove the asymptotic convergence of our main algorithm as well as pointwise and ergodic…
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Achieving high-quality reconstructions from low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) measurements is of much importance in clinical settings. Model-based image reconstruction methods have been proven to be effective in removing artifacts in…