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Metal implants that are inserted into the patient's body during trauma interventions cause heavy artifacts in 3D X-ray acquisitions. Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) methods, whose first step is always a segmentation of the present metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Cheng Peng , Xiaohang Sun , Jingdan Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Rama Chellappa , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) arise from a mismatch between physics of image formation and idealized assumptions during tomographic reconstruction. These artifacts are particularly strong around metal implants, inhibiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Jan-Nico Zaech , Cong Gao , Bastian Bier , Russell Taylor , Andreas Maier , Nassir Navab , Mathias Unberath

Metal artifacts caused by the presence of metallic implants tremendously degrade the reconstructed computed tomography (CT) image quality, affecting clinical diagnosis or reducing the accuracy of organ delineation and dose calculation in…

In total hip arthroplasty, analysis of postoperative medical images is important to evaluate surgical outcome. Since Computed Tomography (CT) is most prevalent modality in orthopedic surgery, we aimed at the analysis of CT image. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Mitsuki Sakamoto , Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Yuki Suzuki , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

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

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Chenyu You , Guang Li , Yi Zhang , Xiaoliu Zhang , Hongming Shan , Shenghong Ju , Zhen Zhao , Zhuiyang Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Michael W. Vannier , Punam K. Saha , Ge Wang

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Artifacts, blur and noise are the common distortions degrading MRI images during the acquisition process, and deep neural networks have been demonstrated to help in improving image quality. To well exploit global structural information and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Xiaobin Hu , Yanyang Yan , Wenqi Ren , Hongwei Li , Yu Zhao , Amirhossein Bayat , Bjoern Menze

An X-ray computed tomography (CT), metal artifact reduction (MAR) remains a major challenge because metallic implants violate standard CT forward-model assumptions, producing severe streaking and shadowing artifacts that degrade diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon

Diffusion-weighted MRI is nowadays performed routinely due to its prognostic ability, yet the quality of the scans are often unsatisfactory which can subsequently hamper the clinical utility. To overcome the limitations, here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyun Kim , Jeong Hee Yoon , Jeong Min Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial technique in neuroimaging studies, allowing for the non-invasive probing of the underlying structures of brain tissues. Clinical dMRI data is susceptible to various artifacts during…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Xinyi Wang , Chenyu Wang , Weidong Cai

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

An attention guided scheme for metal artifact correction in MRI using deep neural network is proposed in this paper. The inputs of the networks are two distorted images obtained with dual-polarity readout gradients. With MR image generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Jee Won Kim , Kinam Kwon , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park

Emerging neural reconstruction techniques based on tomography (e.g., NeRF, NeAT, and NeRP) have started showing unique capabilities in medical imaging. In this work, we present a novel Polychromatic neural representation (Polyner) to tackle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Qing Wu , Lixuan Chen , Ce Wang , Hongjiang Wei , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Ring artifacts are prevalent in 3D cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) due to non-ideal responses of X-ray detectors, substantially affecting image quality and diagnostic reliability. Existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) ring artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Qing Wu , Hongjiang Wei , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Many leading self-supervised methods for unsupervised representation learning, in particular those for embedding image features, are built on variants of the instance discrimination task, whose optimization is known to be prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Daniel Shalam , Simon Korman

Metal artifacts in Dental CBCT severely obscure anatomical structures, hindering diagnosis. Current deep learning for Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) faces limitations: supervised methods suffer from spectral blurring due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zhi Li , Yaqi Wang , Bingtao Ma , Yifan Zhang , Huiyu Zhou , Shuai Wang