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To reduce radiation exposure and improve the diagnostic efficacy of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), numerous deep learning-based denoising methods have been developed to mitigate noise and artifacts. However, most of these approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Runze Wang , Zeli Chen , Zhiyun Song , Wei Fang , Jiajin Zhang , Danyang Tu , Yuxing Tang , Minfeng Xu , Xianghua Ye , Le Lu , Dakai Jin

In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang

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…

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Utilizing a low-dose CT approach significantly reduces the radiation exposure for patients, yet it introduces challenges, such as increased noise and artifacts in the resultant images, which can hinder accurate medical diagnostics.…

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We describe a novel method for training high-quality image denoising models based on unorganized collections of corrupted images. The training does not need access to clean reference images, or explicit pairs of corrupted images, and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in machine learning-based models and techniques for low-dose X-ray CT (LDCT) imaging tasks. The methods can typically be categorized into supervised learning methods and unsupervised or…

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Medical image acquisition is often intervented by unwanted noise that corrupts the information content. This paper introduces an unsupervised medical image denoising technique that learns noise characteristics from the available images and…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) offers reduced X-ray radiation exposure but at the cost of compromised image quality, characterized by increased noise and artifacts. Recently, transformer models emerged as a promising avenue to enhance…

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Low-dose emission tomography (ET) plays a crucial role in medical imaging, enabling the acquisition of functional information for various biological processes while minimizing the patient dose. However, the inherent randomness in the photon…

Reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is important to mitigate radiation-induced risks. One option is to employ a well-trained model to compensate for incomplete information and map sparse-view measurements to the CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Xiaoyue Li , Kai Shang , Gaoang Wang , Mark D. Butala

Organ segmentation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a vital role in cancer quantification. Low-dose PET (LDPET) provides a safer alternative by reducing radiation exposure. However, the inherent noise and blurred boundaries make…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-30 Zanting Ye , Xiaolong Niu , Xu Han , Xuanbin Wu , Wantong Lu , Yijun Lu , Hao Sun , Yanchao Huang , Hubing Wu , Lijun Lu

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…