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Computed tomography (CT) has played a vital role in medical diagnosis, assessment, and therapy planning, etc. In clinical practice, concerns about the increase of X-ray radiation exposure attract more and more attention. To lower the X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Synchrotron radiation sources are widely used in various fields, among which computed tomography (CT) is one of the most important. The amount of effort expended by the operator varies depending on the subject. If the number of angles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Ling Li , Yu Hu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Chenyu You , Qingsong Yang , Hongming Shan , Lars Gjesteby , Guang Li , Shenghong Ju , Zhuiyang Zhang , Zhen Zhao , Yi Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Denoising of clinical CT images is an active area for deep learning research. Current clinically approved methods use iterative reconstruction methods to reduce the noise in CT images. Iterative reconstruction techniques require multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Mayank Patwari , Ralf Gutjahr , Rainer Raupach , Andreas Maier

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) is clinically desirable due to the reduced radiation to patients. However, the quality of LDCT images is often sub-optimal because of the inevitable strong quantum noise. Inspired by their unprecedent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Taking photos of optoelectronic displays is a direct and spontaneous way of transferring data and keeping records, which is widely practiced. However, due to the analog signal interference between the pixel grids of the display screen and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Bolin Liu , Xiao Shu , Xiaolin Wu

Low-dose CT has been a key diagnostic imaging modality to reduce the potential risk of radiation overdose to patient health. Despite recent advances, CNN-based approaches typically apply filters in a spatially invariant way and adopt…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Lu Xu , Yuwei Zhang , Ying Liu , Daoye Wang , Mu Zhou , Jimmy Ren , Jingwei Wei , Zhaoxiang Ye

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) allows the reduction of radiation risk in clinical applications at the expense of image quality, which deteriorates the diagnosis accuracy of radiologists. In this work, we present a High-Quality Imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Jingfeng Lu , Shuo Wang , Ping Li , Dong Ye

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

A variety of deep neural network (DNN)-based image denoising methods have been proposed for use with medical images. These methods are typically trained by minimizing loss functions that quantify a distance between the denoised image, or a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Kaiyan Li , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

Accurate classification of fine-grained images remains a challenge in backbones based on convolutional operations or self-attention mechanisms. This study proposes novel dual-current neural networks (DCNN), which combine the advantages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Da Fu , Mingfei Rong , Eun-Hu Kim , Hao Huang , Witold Pedrycz

Recent studies have shown that deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) are vulnerable to adversarial examples and sensitive to perceptual quality as well as the acquisition condition of images. These findings raise a big concern for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yeli Feng , Yiyu Cai

Interests in digital image processing are growing enormously in recent decades. As a result, different data compression techniques have been proposed which are concerned mostly with the minimization of information used for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Suman Kunwar

The fast growing deep learning technologies have become the main solution of many machine learning problems for medical image analysis. Deep convolution neural networks (CNNs), as one of the most important branch of the deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Zizhao Zhang , Fuyong Xing , Hai Su , Xiaoshuang Shi , Lin Yang

Lossy image compression algorithms are pervasively used to reduce the size of images transmitted over the web and recorded on data storage media. However, we pay for their high compression rate with visual artifacts degrading the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Lukas Cavigelli , Pascal Hager , Luca Benini

Building large models with parameter sharing accounts for most of the success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose doubly convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), which significantly improve the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Weining Lu , Zhongfei Zhang

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…