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Limited angle CT reconstruction is an under-determined linear inverse problem that requires appropriate regularization techniques to be solved. In this work we study how pre-trained generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle M. Champley

This paper applies the recent fast iterative neural network framework, Momentum-Net, using appropriate models to low-dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction. At each layer of the proposed Momentum-Net, the model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

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

Reconstruction of CT images from a limited set of projections through an object is important in several applications ranging from medical imaging to industrial settings. As the number of available projections decreases, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anish Lahiri , Marc Klasky , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Saiprasad Ravishankar

The deep image prior (DIP) is a well-established unsupervised deep learning method for image reconstruction; yet it is far from being flawless. The DIP overfits to noise if not early stopped, or optimized via a regularized objective. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Marco Nittscher , Michael Lameter , Riccardo Barbano , Johannes Leuschner , Bangti Jin , Peter Maass

While Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) of CT scans has been shown to have better image quality than Filtered Back Projection (FBP), its use has been limited by its high computational cost. More recently, deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-21 Amirkoushyar Ziabari , Dong Hye Ye , Somesh Srivastava , Ken D. Sauer , Jean-Baptiste Thibault , Charles A. Bouman

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

Deep learning-based low-dose computed tomography reconstruction methods already achieve high performance on standard image quality metrics like peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index measure. Yet, they frequently fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Necati Sefercioglu , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Se Young Chun , Yonina C. Eldar , Raja Giryes

Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods have shown potential to substantially improve the image quality of low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) as compared to the conventional filtered back-projection (FBP) method for various…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Hao Zhang , Jing Wang , Jianhua Ma , Hongbing Lu , Zhengrong Liang

This work proposes a green learning (GL) approach to restore medical images. Without loss of generality, we use low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images as examples. LDCT images are susceptible to noise and artifacts, where the imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wei Wang , Yixing Wu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising algorithms aim to enable reduced patient dose in routine CT acquisitions while maintaining high image quality. Recently, deep learning~(DL)-based methods were introduced, outperforming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Felix Denzinger , Mingxuan Gu , Mayank Patwari , Stefan Ploner , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

While deep neural networks exhibit state-of-the-art results in the task of image super-resolution (SR) with a fixed known acquisition process (e.g., a bicubic downscaling kernel), they experience a huge performance loss when the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

We propose a deep learning method for 3D volumetric reconstruction in low-dose helical cone-beam computed tomography. Prior machine learning approaches require reference reconstructions computed by another algorithm for training. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Onni Kosomaa , Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Jaakko Lehtinen

Low dose computed tomography (CT) acquisition using reduced radiation or sparse angle measurements is recommended to decrease the harmful effects of X-ray radiation. Recent works successfully apply deep networks to the problem of low dose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Paramanand Chandramouli , Hannah Droege , Michael Moeller

This study aimed to propose a denoising method for dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT) perfusion studies using a three-dimensional deep image prior (DIP), and to investigate its usefulness in comparison with total…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Kenya Murase

Deep Learning (DL) methods can reconstruct highly accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, but they rely on application-specific large training datasets and often generalize poorly to out-of-distribution data. Self-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Hongze Yu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Yun Jiang

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate various plugins, such as trained deep learning (DL) neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Qifan Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

The ability of deep image prior (DIP) to recover high-quality images from incomplete or corrupted measurements has made it popular in inverse problems in image restoration and medical imaging including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Shijun Liang , Evan Bell , Qing Qu , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Background and Objective: The success of neural networks in a number of image processing tasks has motivated their application in image reconstruction problems in computed tomography (CT). While progress has been made in this area, the lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Ziyu Shu , Alireza Entezari