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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

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The recent progress of deep convolutional neural networks has enabled great success in single image super-resolution (SISR) and many other vision tasks. Their performances are also being increased by deepening the networks and developing…

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In this work, we present a novel self-supervised method for Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. Reducing the radiation dose to patients during a CT scan is a crucial challenge since the quality of the reconstruction highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Hang Xu , Alessandro Perelli

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become the technology of choice for diagnostic medical imaging, given its lower radiation dose compared to standard CT, despite increasing image noise and potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. To…

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Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams should utilize the lowest possible radiation dose while maintaining sufficiently good image quality for accurate medical diagnosis. In this work, we propose a convolution neural network (CNN) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Rodrigo de Barros Vimieiro , Chuang Niu , Hongming Shan , Lucas Rodrigues Borges , Ge Wang , Marcelo Andrade da Costa Vieira

In coronary CT angiography, a series of CT images are taken at different levels of radiation dose during the examination. Although this reduces the total radiation dose, the image quality during the low-dose phases is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Eunhee Kang , Hyun Jung Koo , Dong Hyun Yang , Joon Bum Seo , Jong Chul Ye

Recently, much attention has been spent on neural architecture search (NAS), aiming to outperform those manually-designed neural architectures on high-level vision recognition tasks. Inspired by the success, here we attempt to leverage NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chengrong Gong , Zongwen Bai , Chunhua Shen

Multi-scale architectures and attention modules have shown effectiveness in many deep learning-based image de-raining methods. However, manually designing and integrating these two components into a neural network requires a bulk of labor…

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Deep neural network based methods have achieved promising results for CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), most of which use many synthesized paired images for training. As synthesized metal artifacts in CT images may not accurately reflect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Fenglei Fan , Hongming Shan , Mengzhou Li , Jimin Liang , Ge Wang

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is desirable in many clinical applications to reduce X-ray radiation dose to patients. Inspired by deep learning (DL), a recent promising direction of model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) methods for LDCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Qiaoqiao Ding , Yuesong Nan , Hao Gao , Hui Ji

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction techniques can reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining acceptable imaging quality. Deep learning is widely used in this problem, but the performance of testing data…

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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in automatically designing scalable network architectures for dense image predictions. However, existing NAS algorithms usually compromise on restricted search space and search on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiong Zhang , Hongmin Xu , Hong Mo , Jianchao Tan , Cheng Yang , Lei Wang , Wenqi Ren

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

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have attracted much attention and outperformed manually designed architectures on a few high-level vision tasks. In this paper, we propose HiNAS (Hierarchical NAS), an effort towards…

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In this work, we propose a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for retinal layer segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scans. We incorporate the Unet architecture in the NAS framework as its backbone for the segmentation of the…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but also introduces substantial noise and structural degradation, making it difficult to suppress noise without erasing subtle anatomical details. In this paper, we present…

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