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Image reconstruction from computed tomography (CT) measurement is a challenging statistical inverse problem since a high-dimensional conditional distribution needs to be estimated. Based on training data obtained from high-quality…

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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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Despite extensive research on computed tomography (CT) denoising, few studies exploit projection-domain data characteristics to mitigate noise correlation. To bridge this gap, this work proposes FrequencyCT, the first zero-shot…

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Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

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Diffusion models have significant impact on wide range of generative tasks, especially on image inpainting and restoration. Although the improvements on aiming for decreasing number of function evaluations (NFE), the iterative results are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Mahmut S. Gokmen , Jie Zhang , Ge Wang , Jin Chen , Cody Bumgardner

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

Limited view tomographic reconstruction aims to reconstruct a tomographic image from a limited number of sinogram or projection views arising from sparse view or limited angle acquisitions that reduce radiation dose or shorten scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Bo Zhou , S. Kevin Zhou , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Registration networks have shown great application potentials in medical image analysis. However, supervised training methods have a great demand for large and high-quality labeled datasets, which is time-consuming and sometimes impractical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Dengqiang Jia , Shangqi Gao , Qunlong Chen , Xinzhe Luo , Xiahai Zhuang

We propose a deep learning method for 3D volumetric reconstruction in low-dose helical cone-beam computed tomography. Prior machine learning approaches require reference reconstructions computed by another algorithm for training. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Onni Kosomaa , Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Jaakko Lehtinen

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Wenjun Xia , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

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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 CT Denoising research aims to reduce the risks of radiation exposure to patients. Recently researchers have used deep learning to denoise low dose CT images with promising results. However, approaches that use mean-squared-error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Sepehr Ataei , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized…

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Most existing methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction with deep learning use fully supervised training, which assumes that a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), fully sampled dataset is available for training. In many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Charles Millard , Mark Chiew

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

Due to the factors like processing power limitations and channel capabilities images are often down sampled and transmitted at low bit rates resulting in a low resolution compressed image. High resolution images can be reconstructed from…

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Low-dose CT (LDCT) protocols reduce radiation exposure but increase image noise, compromising diagnostic confidence. Diffusion-based generative models have shown promise for LDCT denoising by learning image priors and performing iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tomás de la Sotta , José M. Saavedra , Héctor Henríquez , Violeta Chang , Aline Xavier

Current self-supervised denoising techniques achieve impressive results, yet their real-world application is frequently constrained by substantial computational and memory demands, necessitating a compromise between inference speed and…

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