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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…

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In computed tomography (CT), metal implants increase the inconsistencies between the measured data and the linear attenuation assumption made by analytic CT reconstruction algorithms. The inconsistencies give rise to dark and bright bands…

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Since the invention of modern CT systems, metal artifacts have been a persistent problem. Due to increased scattering, amplified noise, and insufficient data collection, it is more difficult to suppress metal artifacts in cone-beam CT,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Tianling Lyu , Zhan Wu , Gege Ma , Chen Jiang , Xinyun Zhong , Yan Xi , Yang Chen , Wentao Zhu

Inspired by the great success of deep neural networks, learning-based methods have gained promising performances for metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) images. However, most of the existing approaches put less…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Artifacts in kilo-Voltage CT (kVCT) imaging degrade image quality, impacting clinical decisions. We propose a deep learning framework for metal artifact reduction (MAR) and domain transformation from kVCT to Mega-Voltage CT (MVCT). The…

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The positive outcome of a trauma intervention depends on an intraoperative evaluation of inserted metallic implants. Due to occurring metal artifacts, the quality of this evaluation heavily depends on the performance of so-called Metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) aims to reduce the severe streaking artifacts induced by metallic implants and other high-density objects. Effective MAR generally requires both accurate artifact localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zilong Li , Chenglong Ma , Yiming Lei , Yuanlin Li , Jing Han , Jiannan Liu , Huidong Xie , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

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

Metal artifacts from high-attenuation implants severely degrade CT image quality, obscuring critical anatomical structures and posing a challenge for standard deep learning methods that require extensive paired training data. We propose a…

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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

Retrospective artifact correction (RAC) improves image quality post acquisition and enhances image usability. Recent machine learning driven techniques for RAC are predominantly based on supervised learning and therefore practical utility…

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Deep learning has been successfully applied to low-dose CT (LDCT) image denoising for reducing potential radiation risk. However, the widely reported supervised LDCT denoising networks require a training set of paired images, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yuhui Ruan , Qiao Yuan , Chuang Niu , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Ge Wang , Yueyang Teng

Recent CT Metal Artifacts Reduction (MAR) methods are often based on image-to-image convolutional neural networks for adjustment of corrupted sinograms or images themselves. In this paper, we are exploring the capabilities of a multi-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Artem Pimkin , Alexander Samoylenko , Natalia Antipina , Anna Ovechkina , Andrey Golanov , Alexandra Dalechina , Mikhail Belyaev

Recently, deep learning approaches for MR motion artifact correction have been extensively studied. Although these approaches have shown high performance and reduced computational complexity compared to classical methods, most of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gyutaek Oh , Jeong Eun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Magnetic Resonance (MR) images suffer from various types of artifacts due to motion, spatial resolution, and under-sampling. Conventional deep learning methods deal with removing a specific type of artifact, leading to separately trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Arun Palla , Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

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

CT images have been used to generate radiation therapy treatment plans for more than two decades. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has shown high accuracy in estimating electronic density or proton stopping-power maps used in treatment planning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Tao Ge , Maria Medrano , Rui Liao , Jeffrey F. Williamson , David G. Politte , Bruce R. Whiting , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

Motion artifacts compromise the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pose challenges to achieving diagnostic outcomes and image-guided therapies. In recent years, supervised deep learning approaches have emerged as successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Yusheng Zhou , Hao Li , Jianan Liu , Zhengmin Kong , Tao Huang , Euijoon Ahn , Zhihan Lv , Jinman Kim , David Dagan Feng

Recent deep learning-based methods have achieved promising performance for computed tomography metal artifact reduction (CTMAR). However, most of them suffer from two limitations: (i) the domain knowledge is not fully embedded into the…

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