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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,…

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The resurgence of deep neural networks has created an alternative pathway for low-dose computed tomography denoising by learning a nonlinear transformation function between low-dose CT (LDCT) and normal-dose CT (NDCT) image pairs. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Many algorithms have been developed to solve the inverse problem of coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI), i.e., recovering the 3D hyperspectral images (HSIs) from a 2D compressive measurement. In recent years, learning-based…

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Low-dose CT image reconstruction has been a popular research topic in recent years. A typical reconstruction method based on post-log measurements is called penalized weighted-least squares (PWLS). Due to the underlying limitations of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Siqi Ye , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Over the past few years, dictionary learning (DL)-based methods have been successfully used in various image reconstruction problems. However, traditional DL-based computed tomography (CT) reconstruction methods are patch-based and ignore…

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

The Image-Based Rendering (IBR) approach using Shearlet Transform (ST) is one of the most effective methods for Densely-Sampled Light Field (DSLF) reconstruction. The ST-based DSLF reconstruction typically relies on an iterative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yuan Gao , Robert Bregovic , Reinhard Koch , Atanas Gotchev

We propose a novel Learned Alternating Minimization Algorithm (LAMA) for dual-domain sparse-view CT image reconstruction. LAMA is naturally induced by a variational model for CT reconstruction with learnable nonsmooth nonconvex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chi Ding , Qingchao Zhang , Ge Wang , Xiaojing Ye , Yunmei Chen

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

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but it has been traditionally limited by its slow data acquisition. Recent advances in compressed sensing (CS) techniques for MRI reduce acquisition time while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Bihan Wen , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Luke Pfister , Yoram Bresler

Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang , Qingsong Yang , Jiang Hsieh , Jia Li , Rongjie Lai

Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Low dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for reduced patient dose. This work develops image reconstruction methods with deep learning (DL) regularization for LDCT. Our methods are based on unrolling of proximal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Qiaoqiao Ding , Gaoyu Chen , Xiaoqun Zhang , Qiu Huang , Hui Jiand Hao Gao

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,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Long Zhou , Xiaozhuang Wang , Min Hou , Ping Li , Chunlong Fu , Yanjun Ren , Tingting Shao , Xi Hu , Jihong Sun , Hongwei Ye

Purpose: This work aims at developing a generalizable MRI reconstruction model in the meta-learning framework. The standard benchmarks in meta-learning are challenged by learning on diverse task distributions. The proposed network learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wanyu Bian , Yunmei Chen , Xiaojing Ye , Qingchao Zhang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is critical for minimizing radiation exposure, but it often leads to increased noise and reduced image quality. Traditional denoising methods, such as iterative optimization or supervised learning, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Debopom Sutradhar , Ripon Kumar Debnath , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Yan Zhang , Reem E. Mohamed , Sami Azam

The field of medical image reconstruction has seen roughly four types of methods. The first type tended to be analytical methods, such as filtered back-projection (FBP) for X-ray computed tomography (CT) and the inverse Fourier transform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Jong Chul Ye , Jeffrey A. Fessler

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in clinical applications such as diagnosis and image-guided interventions. In this paper, we propose a new deep learning based model for CT image reconstruction with the backbone network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Haimiao Zhang , Baodong Liu , Hengyong Yu , Bin Dong

Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…

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