English
Related papers

Related papers: MAGIC: Manifold and Graph Integrative Convolutiona…

200 papers

Geometric variations like rotation, scaling, and viewpoint changes pose a significant challenge to visual understanding. One common solution is to directly model certain intrinsic structures, e.g., using landmarks. However, it then becomes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Xiuyuan Cheng , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu

Convolutional neural networks are state-of-the-art for various segmentation tasks. While for 2D images these networks are also computationally efficient, 3D convolutions have huge storage requirements and therefore, end-to-end training is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier

Deep-learning methods have shown promising performance for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. However, supervised methods face the problem of lacking labeled data in clinical scenarios, and the CNN-based unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Ran An , Ke Chen , Hongwei Li

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used in many applications that need material decomposition. Image-domain methods directly decompose material images from high- and low-energy attenuation images, and thus, are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Johannes Thalhammer , Tina Dorosti , Sebastian Peterhansl , Daniela Pfeiffer , Franz Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

With the development of computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, it is possible to acquire multi-energy data by spectral CT. Being different from conventional CT, the X-ray energy spectrum of spectral CT is cutting into several narrow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuanwei He , Li Zeng , Qiong Xu , Zhe Wang , Haijun Yu , Zhaoqiang Shen , Zhaojun Yang , Rifeng Zhou

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction faces a critical tradeoff between reconstruction quality and resource requirements. While recent deep learning methods achieve state-of-the-art performance, they typically rely on over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Veera Varuni Radhakrishnan , Chinthaka Dinesh , Qurat-ul-Ain Azim

We propose an image representation scheme combining the local and nonlocal characterization of patches in an image. Our representation scheme can be shown to be equivalent to a tight frame constructed from convolving local bases (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Rujie Yin , Tingran Gao , Yue M. Lu , Ingrid Daubechies

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) has been widely used in cancer radiotherapy for accurate target delineation and motion measurement for tumors in thorax and upper abdomen areas. However, 4DCT simulation is associated with much…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Steve B. Jiang

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams should utilize the lowest possible radiation dose while maintaining sufficiently good image quality for accurate medical diagnosis. In this work, we propose a convolution neural network (CNN) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Rodrigo de Barros Vimieiro , Chuang Niu , Hongming Shan , Lucas Rodrigues Borges , Ge Wang , Marcelo Andrade da Costa Vieira

This paper presents an iterative inversion algorithm for computed tomography image reconstruction that performs well in terms of accuracy and speed using limited data. The computational method combines an image domain technique and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-17 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

The process of acquiring microscopic images in life sciences often results in image degradation and corruption, characterised by the presence of noise and blur, which poses significant challenges in accurately analysing and interpreting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Gesine Müller , Veit Dausmann , Anton Theileis , Jan Taucher , Jan Huisken , Tingying Peng

Batch effects arising from technical variations in histopathology staining protocols, scanners, and acquisition pipelines pose a persistent challenge for computational pathology, hindering cross-batch generalization and limiting reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiaolong Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Selim Sevim , Emek Demir , Ece Eksi , Xubo Song

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) has attracted a major attention in the medical imaging field, since CT-associated x-ray radiation carries health risks for patients. The reduction of CT radiation dose, however, compromises the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Hongming Shan , Yi Zhang , Qingsong Yang , Uwe Kruger , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ling Sun , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

LDCT has drawn major attention in the medical imaging field due to the potential health risks of CT-associated X-ray radiation to patients. Reducing the radiation dose, however, decreases the quality of the reconstructed images, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zhizhong Huang , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

We propose the Lanczos network (LanczosNet), which uses the Lanczos algorithm to construct low rank approximations of the graph Laplacian for graph convolution. Relying on the tridiagonal decomposition of the Lanczos algorithm, we not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Renjie Liao , Zhizhen Zhao , Raquel Urtasun , Richard S. Zemel

Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang