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Deep learning-based low-dose computed tomography reconstruction methods already achieve high performance on standard image quality metrics like peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index measure. Yet, they frequently fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Necati Sefercioglu , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

The automated detection of cancerous tumors has attracted interest mainly during the last decade, due to the necessity of early and efficient diagnosis that will lead to the most effective possible treatment of the impending risk. Several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Vasileios E. Papageorgiou , Pantelis Dogoulis , Dimitrios-Panagiotis Papageorgiou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated a great potential in a variety of graph-based applications, such as recommender systems, drug discovery, and object recognition. Nevertheless, resource-efficient GNN learning is a rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zihui Xue , Yuedong Yang , Mengtian Yang , Radu Marculescu

Accurate image reconstruction is crucial for photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT). Recently, deep learning has been used to reconstruct the PA image with a supervised scheme, which requires high-quality images as ground truth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Hengrong Lan , Lijie Huang , Zhiqiang Li , Jing Lv , Jianwen Luo

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging can improve the visibility of weakly absorbing objects (e.g. soft tissues) by an order of magnitude or more compared to conventional radiographs. Previously, it has been shown that combining phase retrieval with…

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) offers significant advantages in reducing the potential harm to human bodies. However, reducing the X-ray dose in CT scanning often leads to severe noise and artifacts in the reconstructed images, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Ran An , Yinghui Zhang , Xi Chen , Lemeng Li , Ke Chen , Hongwei Li

Background: Limited-angle (LA) dual-energy (DE) cone-beam CT (CBCT) is considered as a potential solution to achieve fast and low-dose DE imaging on current CBCT scanners without hardware modification. However, its clinical implementations…

With the availability of more powerful computing processors, iterative reconstruction algorithms have recently been successfully implemented as an approach to achieving significant dose reduction in X-ray CT. In this report, we describe our…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 D. Trinca , Y. Zhong , Y. Wang , T. Mamyrbayev , E. Libin

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

Computed Tomography (CT) imposes risk on the patients due to its inherent X-ray radiation, stimulating the development of low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging methods. Lowering the radiation dose reduces the health risks but leads to noisier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Elvira Zainulina , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Dmitry V. Dylov

In this paper, we first propose a variational model for the limited-angle computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction and then convert the model into an end-to-end deep network.We use the penalty method to solve the model and divide it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Sparse-view Computed Tomography (CT) is an emerging protocol designed to reduce X-ray dose radiation in medical imaging. Traditional Filtered Back Projection algorithm reconstructions suffer from severe artifacts due to sparse data. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Elena Loli Piccolomini , Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti

Existing methods to reconstruct vascular structures from a computed tomography (CT) angiogram rely on injection of intravenous contrast to enhance the radio-density within the vessel lumen. However, pathological changes can be present in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Anirudh Chandrashekar , Ashok Handa , Natesh Shivakumar , Pierfrancesco Lapolla , Vicente Grau , Regent Lee

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) imaging has been widely used in clinical diagnosis, non-destructive examination, and public safety inspection. Sparse-view (sparse view) CT has great potential in radiation dose reduction and scan…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Kaichao Liang , Hongkai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Traditional model-based image reconstruction (MBIR) methods combine forward and noise models with simple object priors. Recent machine learning methods for image reconstruction typically involve supervised learning or unsupervised learning,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Siqi Ye , Zhipeng Li , Michael T. McCann , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

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

LDCT has drawn major attention in the medical imaging field due to the potential health risks of CT-associated X-ray radiation to patients. Reducing the radiation dose, however, decreases the quality of the reconstructed images, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zhizhong Huang , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

An MRI-only adaptive radiotherapy (ART) workflow is desirable for managing interfractional changes in anatomy, but producing synthetic CT (sCT) data through paired data-driven deep learning (DL) for abdominal dose calculations remains a…

In recent years, accelerated MRI reconstruction based on deep learning has led to significant improvements in image quality with impressive results for high acceleration factors. However, from a clinical perspective image quality is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Christian Schlarmann , Thomas Küstner , Christian F. Baumgartner , Matthias Hein