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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Dayang Wang , Yongshun Xu , Shuo Han , Zhan Wu , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Hengyong Yu

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces the X-ray radiation but compromises image quality with more noises and artifacts. A plethora of transformer models have been developed recently to improve LDCT image quality. However, the success…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Dayang Wang , Yongshun Xu , Shuo Han , Hengyong Yu

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Xin Yi , Paul Babyn

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

Denoising low-dose computed tomography (CT) images is a critical task in medical image computing. Supervised deep learning-based approaches have made significant advancements in this area in recent years. However, these methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Xuan Liu , Yaoqin Xie , Jun Cheng , Songhui Diao , Shan Tan , Xiaokun Liang

In clinical examinations and diagnoses, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is crucial for minimizing health risks compared with normal-dose computed tomography (NDCT). However, reducing the radiation dose compromises the signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Haoyu Zhao , Yuliang Gu , Zhou Zhao , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu , Rui Yu

CT images corrupted by metal artifacts have serious negative effects on clinical diagnosis. Considering the difficulty of collecting paired data with ground truth in clinical settings, unsupervised methods for metal artifact reduction are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Wangduo Xie , Matthew B. Blaschko

Deep neural networks, in particular convolutional neural networks, have become highly effective tools for compressing images and solving inverse problems including denoising, inpainting, and reconstruction from few and noisy measurements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reinhard Heckel , Paul Hand

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Bin Wang , Fei Deng , Peifan Jiang , Shuang Wang , Xiao Han , Zhixuan Zhang

Motivated by the success of Transformers in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, there emerge some attempts (e.g., ViT and DeiT) to apply Transformers to the vision domain. However, pure Transformer architectures often require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kun Yuan , Shaopeng Guo , Ziwei Liu , Aojun Zhou , Fengwei Yu , Wei Wu

Being low-level radiation exposure and less harmful to health, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been widely adopted in the early screening of lung cancer and COVID-19. LDCT images inevitably suffer from the degradation problem caused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kecheng Chen , Jiayu Sun , Jiang Shen , Jixiang Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Xuelin Pan , Dongsheng Wu , Yue Zhao , Miguel Bento , Yazhou Ren , Xiaorong Pu

Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include adding more layers or repeating a modularized clone model in a sequence. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Commercial iterative reconstruction techniques on modern CT scanners target radiation dose reduction but there are lingering concerns over their impact on image appearance and low contrast detectability. Recently, machine learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Hongming Shan , Atul Padole , Fatemeh Homayounieh , Uwe Kruger , Ruhani Doda Khera , Chayanin Nitiwarangkul , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great superiority in lesion detection, tissue characterization and material decomposition. To further extend its potential clinical applications, in this work, we propose an improved tensor dictionary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Weiwen Wu , Yanbo Zhang , Qian Wang , Fenglin Liu , Peijun Chen , Hengyong Yu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

A deep convolutional neural network has been developed to denoise atomic-resolution TEM image datasets of nanoparticles acquired using direct electron counting detectors, for applications where the image signal is severely limited by shot…

With substantial public concerns on potential cancer risks and health hazards caused by the accumulated radiation exposure in medical imaging, reducing radiation dose in X-ray based medical imaging such as Computed Tomography Perfusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang