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Deep learning is a very promising technique for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image denoising. However, traditional deep learning methods require paired noisy and clean datasets, which are often difficult to obtain. This paper…

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Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables material-specific imaging through acquisitions at two different X-ray energy spectra. Material decomposition from DECT data is an ill-posed inverse problem that is highly sensitive to noise…

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

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Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is widely applied for the diagnosis of ischemic heart diseases. Low-dose (LD) SPECT aims to minimize radiation exposure but leads to increased image noise. Limited-angle (LA) SPECT enables…

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The main focus of this work is a novel framework for the joint reconstruction and segmentation of parallel MRI (PMRI) brain data. We introduce an image domain deep network for calibrationless recovery of undersampled PMRI data. The proposed…

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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

Computed tomography (CT) is a popular medical imaging modality in clinical applications. At the same time, the x-ray radiation dose associated with CT scans raises public concerns due to its potential risks to the patients. Over the past…

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Recently, deep learning methods have gained remarkable achievements in the field of image restoration for remote sensing (RS). However, most existing RS image restoration methods focus mainly on conventional first-order degradation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yujie Feng , Yin Yang , Xiaohong Fan , Zhengpeng Zhang , Lijing Bu , Jianping Zhang

Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Reconstructing 3D cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images from a limited set of projections is an important inverse problem in many imaging applications from medicine to inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The performance of traditional…

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This paper proposes a non-data-driven deep neural network for spectral image recovery problems such as denoising, single hyperspectral image super-resolution, and compressive spectral imaging reconstruction. Unlike previous methods, the…

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Reducing the bit-depth is an effective approach to lower the cost of optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and increase the transmission efficiency in data acquisition and telemedicine. However, a low bit-depth will lead to the…

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Convolutional neural networks have been proven effective in a variety of image restoration tasks. Most state-of-the-art solutions, however, are trained using images with a single particular degradation level, and their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yiwen Guo , Ming Lu , Wangmeng Zuo , Changshui Zhang , Yurong Chen

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang

The acquisition conditions for low-dose and high-dose CT images are usually different, so that the shifts in the CT numbers often occur. Accordingly, unsupervised deep learning-based approaches, which learn the target image distribution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Chanyong Jung , Joonhyung Lee , Sunkyoung You , Jong Chul Ye

Numerous dual-energy CT (DECT) techniques have been developed in the past few decades. Dual-energy CT (DECT) statistical iterative reconstruction (SIR) has demonstrated its potential for reducing noise and increasing accuracy. Our lab…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Tao Ge , Maria Medrano , Rui Liao , David G. Politte , Jeffrey F. Williamson , Bruce R. Whiting , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

Image denoising of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important problem for clinical diagnosis with reduced radiation exposure. Previous methods are mostly trained with pairs of synthetic or misaligned LDCT and normal-dose CT (NDCT)…

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Current mainstream of CT reconstruction methods based on deep learning usually needs to fix the scanning geometry and dose level, which will significantly aggravate the training cost and need more training data for clinical application. In…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Lowering the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) can greatly reduce the potential risk to public health. However, the reconstructed images from the dose-reduced CT or low-dose CT (LDCT) suffer from severe noise, compromising the…

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