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Providing more precise tissue attenuation information, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to improved radiation therapy treatment planning. In our study, we employ the advanced…

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Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based synthetic computed tomography (sCT) simplifies radiation therapy treatment planning by eliminating the need for CT simulation and error-prone image registration, ultimately reducing patient radiation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shaoyan Pan , Elham Abouei , Jacob Wynne , Tonghe Wang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Yuheng Li , Chih-Wei Chang , Junbo Peng , Justin Roper , Pretesh Patel , David S. Yu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

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

The generation of Synthetic Computed Tomography (sCT) images has become a pivotal methodology in modern clinical practice, particularly in the context of Radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning. The use of sCT enables the calculation of doses,…

Acquiring images of the same anatomy with multiple different contrasts increases the diversity of diagnostic information available in an MR exam. Yet, scan time limitations may prohibit acquisition of certain contrasts, and images for some…

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Reconstruction of CT images from a limited set of projections through an object is important in several applications ranging from medical imaging to industrial settings. As the number of available projections decreases, traditional…

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With the development of computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, it is possible to acquire multi-energy data by spectral CT. Being different from conventional CT, the X-ray energy spectrum of spectral CT is cutting into several narrow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuanwei He , Li Zeng , Qiong Xu , Zhe Wang , Haijun Yu , Zhaoqiang Shen , Zhaojun Yang , Rifeng Zhou

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based image reconstruction plays a pivotal role in decoding human perception, with applications in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces. While recent advancements in deep learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Weiyu Guo , Guoying Sun , JianXiang He , Tong Shao , Shaoguang Wang , Ziyang Chen , Meisheng Hong , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

We propose a deep learning method for single image super-resolution (SR). Our method directly learns an end-to-end mapping between the low/high-resolution images. The mapping is represented as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that…

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Assume you encounter an inverse problem that shall be solved for a large number of data, but no ground-truth data is available. To emulate this encounter, in this study, we assume it is unknown how to solve the imaging problem of Computed…

The cycleGAN is becoming an influential method in medical image synthesis. However, due to a lack of direct constraints between input and synthetic images, the cycleGAN cannot guarantee structural consistency between these two images, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Aaron Carass , Can Zhao , Junghoon Lee , Zongben Xu , Jerry Prince

Accurate synthesis of a full 3D MR image containing tumours from available MRI (e.g. to replace an image that is currently unavailable or corrupted) would provide a clinician as well as downstream inference methods with important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Raghav Mehta , Tal Arbel

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based image reconstruction methods have been intensely used for X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction applications. Despite great success, good performance of this data-based approach critically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ziling Wu , Abdulaziz Alorf , Ting Yang , Ling Li , Yunhui Zhu

Accurate MR-to-CT synthesis is a requirement for MR-only workflows in radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have shown impressive results in this field. However, to prevent downstream errors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Louis D. van Harten , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Joost J. C. Verhoeff , Ivana Išgum

Computed Tomography (CT) is an imaging technique where information about an object are collected at different angles (called projections or scans). Then the cross-sectional image showing the internal structure of the slice is produced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Zhengchun Liu , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

The skull segmentation from CT scans can be seen as an already solved problem. However, in MR this task has a significantly greater complexity due to the presence of soft tissues rather than bones. Capturing the bone structures from MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Kamil Kwarciak , Mateusz Daniol , Daria Hemmerling , Marek Wodzinski

Traditional model-based image reconstruction (MBIR) methods combine forward and noise models with simple object priors. Recent application of deep learning methods for image reconstruction provides a successful data-driven approach to…

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The need for fast acquisition and automatic analysis of MRI data is growing in the age of big data. Although compressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging (CS-MRI) has been studied to accelerate MRI by reducing k-space measurements, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Liyan Sun , Zhiwen Fan , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , John Paisley

Magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and brain exploration. However, limited by hardware, scanning time and cost, it's challenging to acquire high-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance (MR) image…

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