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Many low-dose CT imaging methods rely on supervised learning, which requires a large number of paired noisy and clean images. However, obtaining paired images in clinical practice is challenging. To address this issue, zero-shot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yongyi Shi , Ge Wang

A variety of supervise learning methods are available for low-dose CT denoising in the sinogram domain. Traditional model observers are widely employed to evaluate these methods. However, the sinogram domain evaluation remains an open…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Yongyi Shi , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become the technology of choice for diagnostic medical imaging, given its lower radiation dose compared to standard CT, despite increasing image noise and potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Bin Wang , Fei Deng , Peifan Jiang , Shuang Wang , Xiao Han , Zhixuan Zhang

Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

With the development of deep learning, medical image processing has been widely used to assist clinical research. This paper focuses on the denoising problem of low-dose computed tomography using deep learning. Although low-dose computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhilin Guan , Wei Zhang

In coronary CT angiography, a series of CT images are taken at different levels of radiation dose during the examination. Although this reduces the total radiation dose, the image quality during the low-dose phases is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Eunhee Kang , Hyun Jung Koo , Dong Hyun Yang , Joon Bum Seo , Jong Chul Ye

Ionizing radiation has been the biggest concern in CT imaging. To reduce the dose level without compromising the image quality, low-dose CT reconstruction has been offered with the availability of compressed sensing based reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

In this work, we present a novel self-supervised method for Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. Reducing the radiation dose to patients during a CT scan is a crucial challenge since the quality of the reconstruction highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Hang Xu , Alessandro Perelli

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) allows the reduction of radiation risk in clinical applications at the expense of image quality, which deteriorates the diagnosis accuracy of radiologists. In this work, we present a High-Quality Imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Jingfeng Lu , Shuo Wang , Ping Li , Dong Ye

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

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Xin Yi , Paul Babyn

This paper studies 3D low-dose computed tomography (CT) imaging. Although various deep learning methods were developed in this context, typically they focus on 2D images and perform denoising due to low-dose and deblurring for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Zhihao Chen , Chuang Niu , Qi Gao , Ge Wang , Hongming Shan

Low-dose CT images are essential for reducing radiation exposure in cancer screening, pediatric imaging, and longitudinal monitoring protocols, but their quality is often degraded by noise from low-dose acquisition, patient motion, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jitindra Fartiyal , Pedro Freire , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Sergei G. Solovski

Computed Tomography (CT) is a vital diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet the health risks associated with ionizing radiation cannot be overlooked. Low-dose CT (LDCT) helps mitigate radiation exposure but simultaneously leads to reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guoliang Gong , Man Yu

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

Being low-level radiation exposure and less harmful to health, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been widely adopted in the early screening of lung cancer and COVID-19. LDCT images inevitably suffer from the degradation problem caused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kecheng Chen , Jiayu Sun , Jiang Shen , Jixiang Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Xuelin Pan , Dongsheng Wu , Yue Zhao , Miguel Bento , Yazhou Ren , Xiaorong Pu

Given the potential X-ray radiation risk to the patient, low-dose CT has attracted a considerable interest in the medical imaging field. The current main stream low-dose CT methods include vendor-specific sinogram domain filtration and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Feng Lin , Yang Chen , Peixi Liao , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

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

In this paper, we propose a sinogram inpainting network (SIN) to solve limited-angle CT reconstruction problem, which is a very challenging ill-posed issue and of great interest for several clinical applications. A common approach to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Ji Zhao , Zhiqiang Chen , Li Zhang , Xin Jin