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Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

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

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Deep learning in medical imaging has the potential to minimize the risk of diagnostic errors, reduce radiologist workload, and accelerate diagnosis. Training such deep learning models requires large and accurate datasets, with annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Daniel Wolf , Tristan Payer , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Christoph Gerhard Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz , Timo Ropinski

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

The extensive use of medical CT has raised a public concern over the radiation dose to the patient. Reducing the radiation dose leads to increased CT image noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect not only the radiologists judgement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Jiajin Zhang , Hanqing Chao , Xuanang Xu , Chuang Niu , Ge Wang , Pingkun Yan

Ultra low radiation dose in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important clinical objective in order to minimize the risk of carcinogenesis. Compressed Sensing (CS) enables significant reductions in radiation dose to be achieved by…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but suffered from prolonged acquisition time. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to accelerate acquisition and demonstrate promising performance, they rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Hao Zhang , Qi Wang , Jian Sun , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Shihui Ying

Physics-driven deep learning (PD-DL) models have proven to be a powerful approach for improved reconstruction of rapid MRI scans. In order to train these models in scenarios where fully-sampled reference data is unavailable, self-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Xuehang Zheng , Zening Lu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Supervised deep-learning (SDL) techniques with paired training datasets have been widely studied for X-ray computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction. However, due to the difficulties of obtaining paired training datasets in clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Gaofeng Chen , Yaoduo Zhang , Li Huang , Pengfei Wang , Wenyu Zhang , Dong Zeng , Jianhua Ma , Ji He

Diffusion models have significant impact on wide range of generative tasks, especially on image inpainting and restoration. Although the improvements on aiming for decreasing number of function evaluations (NFE), the iterative results are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Mahmut S. Gokmen , Jie Zhang , Ge Wang , Jin Chen , Cody Bumgardner

In this paper, we introduced a novel deep learning-based reconstruction technique for low-dose CT imaging using 3 dimensional convolutions to include the sagittal information unlike the existing 2 dimensional networks which exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Doga Gunduzalp , Batuhan Cengiz , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Isa Yildirim

PET is affected by statistical noise due to constraints on tracer dose and scan duration, impacting both diagnostic performance and quantitative accuracy. While deep learning (DL)-based PET denoising methods have been used to improve image…

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

Filtered back projection (FBP) is a classical method for image reconstruction from sinogram CT data. FBP is computationally efficient but produces lower quality reconstructions than more sophisticated iterative methods, particularly when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Dong Hye Ye , Gregery T. Buzzard , Max Ruby , Charles A. Bouman

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) can be used to reduce radiation dose greatly but is suffers from severe image artifacts. Recently, the deep learning based method for sparse-view CT reconstruction has attracted a major attention.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Wenjun Xia , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

The lack of large-scale noisy-clean image pairs restricts supervised denoising methods' deployment in actual applications. While existing unsupervised methods are able to learn image denoising without ground-truth clean images, they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yi Zhang , Dasong Li , Ka Lung Law , Xiaogang Wang , Hongwei Qin , Hongsheng Li

Deep learning methods have been successfully used in various computer vision tasks. Inspired by that success, deep learning has been explored in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. In particular, integrating deep learning and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peizhou Huang , Chaoyi Zhang , Xiaoliang Zhang , Xiaojuan Li , Liang Dong , Leslie Ying

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising is crucial for reduced radiation exposure while ensuring diagnostically acceptable image quality. Despite significant advancements driven by deep learning (DL) in recent years, existing DL-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhihao Chen , Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jun Zhao , Hongming Shan