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The processing and analysis of computed tomography (CT) imaging is important for both basic scientific development and clinical applications. In AutoCT, we provide a comprehensive pipeline that integrates an end-to-end automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Zhe Bai , Abdelilah Essiari , Talita Perciano , Kristofer E. Bouchard

Purpose: The goal is to develop a new architecture for computed tomography (CT) which is at an ultra-low-dose for developing countries, especially in rural areas. Methods: The proposed scheme is inspired by the recently developed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Fenglin Liu , Hengyong Yu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

A hybrid imaging system consisting of a standard CT scanner and a low-profile photon-counting detector insert in contact with the patient's body has been used to produce ultrahigh-resolution images in a limited volume in chest scans of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Dakota H. King , Eric E. Bennett , Dumitru Mazilu , Muyang Wang , Marcus Y. Chen , Han Wen

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

Computed Tomography (CT) is an essential non-destructive three dimensional imaging modality used in medicine, security screening, and inspection of manufactured components. Typical CT data acquisition entails the collection of a thousand or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Kyle M. Champley , Michael B. Zellner , Joseph W. Tringe , Harry E. Martz

Three-dimensional (3D) imaging of thin, extended specimens at nanometer resolution is critical for applications in biology, materials science, advanced synthesis, and manufacturing. One route to 3D imaging is tomography, which requires a…

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Virtual Imaging Trials (VIT) offer a cost-effective and scalable approach for evaluating medical imaging technologies. Computational phantoms, which mimic real patient anatomy and physiology, play a central role in VITs. However, the…

Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential part of modern science and medicine. A CT scanner consists of an X-ray source that is spun around an object of interest. On the opposite end of the X-ray source, a detector captures X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Thomas Germer , Jan Robine , Sebastian Konietzny , Stefan Harmeling , Tobias Uelwer

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

Multi-scale 3D characterization is widely used by materials scientists to further their understanding of the relationships between microscopic structure and macroscopic function. Scientific computed tomography (CT) instruments are one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 S. V. Venkatakrishnan , K. Aditya Mohan , Amir Koushyar Ziabari , Charles A. Bouman

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive volumetric imaging modality with high spatial and temporal resolution. For imaging larger tissue structures, OCT probes need to be moved to scan the respective area. For handheld…

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Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely used technology that requires compute-intense algorithms for image reconstruction. We propose a novel back-projection algorithm that reduces the projection computation cost to 1/6 of the standard…

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Medical imaging phantoms are widely used for validation and verification of imaging systems and algorithms in surgical guidance and radiation oncology procedures. Especially, for the performance evaluation of new algorithms in the field of…

Labelling data is expensive and time consuming especially for domains such as medical imaging that contain volumetric imaging data and require expert knowledge. Exploiting a larger pool of labeled data available across multiple centers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Daiqing Li , Amlan Kar , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Sanja Fidler

The diagnostic quality of computed tomography (CT) scans is usually restricted by the induced patient dose, scan speed, and image quality. Sparse-angle tomographic scans reduce radiation exposure and accelerate data acquisition, but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Oliver Aust , Sabrina Pechmann , Christopher Syben , Andreas Maier

3D reconstruction is a technique used in computer vision which has a wide range of applications in areas like object recognition, city modelling, virtual reality, physical simulations, video games and special effects. Previously, to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Saed Khawaldeh , Tajwar Abrar Aleef , Usama Pervaiz , Vu Hoang Minh , Yeman Brhane Hagos

The MARS scanner is designed for the x-ray spectroscopic study of samples with the aid of computer tomography methods. Computer tomography allows the reconstruction of slices of an investigated sample using a set of shadow projections…

Foundation models (FMs) have shown transformative potential in radiology by performing diverse, complex tasks across imaging modalities. Here, we developed CT-FM, a large-scale 3D image-based pre-trained model designed explicitly for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Suraj Pai , Ibrahim Hadzic , Dennis Bontempi , Keno Bressem , Benjamin H. Kann , Andriy Fedorov , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Yan Liu , Jonathan Dong , Thanh-an Pham , François Marelli , Michael Unser

We integrate a small and portable medical x-ray device with mechanical testing equipment to enable in-situ, non-invasive measurements of a granular material's response to mechanical loading. We employ an orthopedic C-arm as the x-ray source…