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To reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted much attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will lead to significant deterioration of the image quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is the standard modality for lung cancer screening, known for its low radiation dose but high noise levels. While existing literature focuses on denoising LDCT images, comparative research on simulating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jiaying Liu , Anna Corti , Valentina D. A. Corino , Luca Mainardi

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

A CT image can be well reconstructed when the sampling rate of the sinogram satisfies the Nyquist criteria and the sampled signal is noise-free. However, in practice, the sinogram is usually contaminated by noise, which degrades the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

In clinical examinations and diagnoses, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is crucial for minimizing health risks compared with normal-dose computed tomography (NDCT). However, reducing the radiation dose compromises the signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Haoyu Zhao , Yuliang Gu , Zhou Zhao , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu , Rui Yu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Dayang Wang , Fenglei Fan , Zhan Wu , Rui Liu , Fei Wang , Hengyong Yu

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenged by severe noise and compromised data fidelity under reduced radiation exposure. Most existing methods operate either in the image or post-log projection domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bin Huang , Xun Yu , Yikun Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

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

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for both diagnostic imaging and image guided interventions. Denoisers are openly used to improve the quality of LDCT. Deep learning (DL)-based denoisers have shown state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Ti Bai , Biling Wang , Dan Nguyen , Bao Wang , Bin Dong , Wenxiang Cong , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Steve Jiang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Recently, Self-supervised learning methods able to perform image denoising without ground truth labels have been proposed. These methods create low-quality images by adding random or Gaussian noise to images and then train a model for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Dongkyu Won , Euijin Jung , Sion An , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Recently, a number of approaches to low-dose computed tomography (CT) have been developed and deployed in commercialized CT scanners. Tube current reduction is perhaps the most actively explored technology with advanced image reconstruction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Hoyeon Lee , Jongha Lee , Hyeongseok Kim , Byungchul Cho , Seungryong Cho

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

Recently, deep learning(DL) methods have been proposed for the low-dose computed tomography(LdCT) enhancement, and obtain good trade-off between computational efficiency and image quality. Most of them need large number of pre-collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Mingrui Geng , Yun Deng , Qian Zhao , Qi Xie , Dong Zeng , Dong Zeng , Wangmeng Zuo , Deyu Meng

Low-dose CT (LDCT) images are often accompanied by significant noise, which negatively impacts image quality and subsequent diagnostic accuracy. To address the challenges of multi-scale feature fusion and diverse noise distribution patterns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Zhiting Zheng , Shuqi Wu , Wen Ding

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

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