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Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

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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…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) denoising is an important problem in CT research. Compared to the normal dose CT (NDCT), LDCT images are subjected to severe noise and artifacts. Recently in many studies, vision transformers have shown…

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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

Since 2016, deep learning (DL) has advanced tomographic imaging with remarkable successes, especially in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging. Despite being driven by big data, the LDCT denoising and pure end-to-end reconstruction…

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In order to reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted more and more attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will significantly degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

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…

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Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Zhicheng Zhang , Lequan Yu , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

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

The acquisition conditions for low-dose and high-dose CT images are usually different, so that the shifts in the CT numbers often occur. Accordingly, unsupervised deep learning-based approaches, which learn the target image distribution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Chanyong Jung , Joonhyung Lee , Sunkyoung You , Jong Chul Ye

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

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

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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 the intention of minimizing excessive X-ray radiation administration to patients, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become a distinct trend in radiology. However, while lowering the radiation dose reduces the risk to the patient,…

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To reduce radiation exposure and improve the diagnostic efficacy of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), numerous deep learning-based denoising methods have been developed to mitigate noise and artifacts. However, most of these approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Runze Wang , Zeli Chen , Zhiyun Song , Wei Fang , Jiajin Zhang , Danyang Tu , Yuxing Tang , Minfeng Xu , Xianghua Ye , Le Lu , Dakai Jin

Computed tomography (CT) is a popular medical imaging modality in clinical applications. At the same time, the x-ray radiation dose associated with CT scans raises public concerns due to its potential risks to the patients. Over the past…

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Most of the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based CT image denoising literature shows that DNNs outperform traditional iterative methods in terms of metrics such as the RMSE, the PSNR and the SSIM. In many instances, using the same metrics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Prabhat KC , Rongping Zeng , M. Mehdi Farhangi , Kyle J. Myers

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lower potential risks linked to radiation exposure while relying on advanced denoising algorithms to maintain diagnostic quality in reconstructed images. The reigning paradigm in LDCT denoising is based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Şaban Öztürk , Oğuz Can Duran , Tolga Çukur

Deep learning is a very promising technique for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image denoising. However, traditional deep learning methods require paired noisy and clean datasets, which are often difficult to obtain. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yuting Zhu , Qiang He , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

While Total Variation (TV) excels in noise reduction and edge preservation, its reliance on a scalar regularization parameter limits adaptivity. In this study, we present a Learnable Total Variation (LTV) framework coupling an unrolled TV…

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