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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhipeng Li , Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

In the last few years, image denoising has benefited a lot from the fast development of neural networks. However, the requirement of large amounts of noisy-clean image pairs for supervision limits the wide use of these models. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Tao Huang , Songjiang Li , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Jianzhuang Liu

We propose a self-supervised approach for training multi-frame video denoising networks. These networks predict frame t from a window of frames around t. Our self-supervised approach benefits from the video temporal consistency by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Valéry Dewil , Jérémy Anger , Axel Davy , Thibaud Ehret , Pablo Arias , Gabriele Facciolo

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Although the advances of self-supervised blind denoising are significantly superior to conventional approaches without clean supervision in synthetic noise scenarios, it shows poor quality in real-world images due to spatially correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kanggeun Lee , Kyungryun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

Photon counting spectral CT (PCCT) can produce reconstructed attenuation maps in different energy channels, reflecting energy properties of the scanned object. Due to the limited photon numbers and the non-ideal detector response of each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Chaoyang Zhang , Shaojie Chang , Ti Bai , Xi Chen

We study the problem of few-shot learning-based denoising where the training set contains just a handful of clean and noisy samples. A solution to mitigate the small training set issue is to pre-train a denoising model with small training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Leslie Casas , Attila Klimmek , Gustavo Carneiro , Nassir Navab , Vasileios Belagiannis

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Image denoising is of great importance for medical imaging system, since it can improve image quality for disease diagnosis and downstream image analyses. In a variety of applications, dynamic imaging techniques are utilized to capture the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Junshen Xu , Elfar Adalsteinsson

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised video denoising deep learning approach that can help to mitigate data scarcity issues and shows robustness against different noise patterns, enhancing its broad applicability. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mary Damilola Aiyetigbo , Dineshchandar Ravichandran , Reda Chalhoub , Peter Kalivas , Nianyi Li

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is pervasive in both the research and clinical practice of Ophthalmology. However, OCT images are strongly corrupted by noise, limiting their interpretation. Current OCT denoisers leverage assumptions on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Guillaume Gisbert , Neel Dey , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig

Low-dose CT (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but introduces protocol-dependent noise and artifacts that vary across institutions. While federated learning enables collaborative training without centralizing patient data, existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Anas Zafar , Muhammad Waqas , Amgad Muneer , Rukhmini Bandyopadhyay , Jia Wu

Noise is ubiquitous during image acquisition. Sufficient denoising is often an important first step for image processing. In recent decades, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for image denoising. Most DNN-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Chenyin Gao , Shu Yang , Anru R. Zhang

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

To reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted much attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will lead to significant deterioration of the image quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Basar Demir , Yikang Liu , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Boris Mailhe , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

We investigate the task of learning blind image denoising networks from an unpaired set of clean and noisy images. Such problem setting generally is practical and valuable considering that it is feasible to collect unpaired noisy and clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Xiaohe Wu , Ming Liu , Yue Cao , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful noninvasive diagnostic imaging tool that provides unparalleled soft tissue contrast and anatomical detail. Noise contamination, especially in accelerated and/or low-field acquisitions, can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Jiachen Tu , Yaokun Shi , Fan Lam

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