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LDCT has drawn major attention in the medical imaging field due to the potential health risks of CT-associated X-ray radiation to patients. Reducing the radiation dose, however, decreases the quality of the reconstructed images, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Zhizhong Huang , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Deep-learning-based denoising methods have significantly improved Low-Dose CT (LDCT) image quality. However, existing models often over-smooth important anatomical details due to their purely data-driven attention mechanisms. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Namhun Kim , UiHyun Cho

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

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but also introduces substantial noise and structural degradation, making it difficult to suppress noise without erasing subtle anatomical details. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tangtangfang Fang , Yang Jiao , Xiangjian He , Jingxi Hu , Jiaqi Yang

Reconstructing an image from its Radon transform is a fundamental computed tomography (CT) task arising in applications such as X-ray scans. In many practical scenarios, a full 180-degree scan is not feasible, or there is a desire to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ilmari Vahteristo , Zhi-Song Liu , Andreas Rupp

Dynamic computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging is a promising approach for acute ischemic stroke diagnosis and evaluation. Hemodynamic parametric maps of cerebral parenchyma are calculated from repeated CT scans of the first pass of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Dufan Wu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li

In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang

Computed Tomography (CT) is an advanced imaging technology used in many important applications. Here we present a deep-learning (DL) based CT super-resolution (SR) method that can reconstruct low-resolution (LR) sinograms into high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Zhicheng Zhang , Shaode Yu , Wenjian Qin , Xiaokun Liang , Yaoqin Xie , Guohua Cao

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) enables fast and low-dose CT imaging, an essential feature for patient-save medical imaging and rapid non-destructive testing. In sparse-view CT, only a few projection views are acquired, causing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Nadja Gruber , Johannes Schwab , Elke Gizewski , Markus Haltmeier

The radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) examinations is harmful for patients but can be significantly reduced by intuitively decreasing the number of projection views. Reducing projection views usually leads to severe aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bing Guan , Cailian Yang , Liu Zhang , Shanzhou Niu , Minghui Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

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

Diffusion model shows remarkable potential on sparse-view computed tomography (SVCT) reconstruction. However, when a network is trained on a limited sample space, its generalization capability may be constrained, which degrades performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Zekun Zhou , Tan Liu , Bing Yu , Yanru Gong , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Image denoising is always a challenging task in the field of computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we have proposed an encoder-decoder model with direct attention, which is capable of denoising and reconstruct highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Mohammad Abu Yousuf , Rajib Rana

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have led to staggering performance leaps in image generation, editing and restoration. However, existing DDMs use very large datasets for training. Here, we introduce a framework for training a DDM on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vladimir Kulikov , Shahar Yadin , Matan Kleiner , Tomer Michaeli

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to low-level vision tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. Due to the coherent nature of the image formation process, optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ashkan Abbasi , Amirhassan Monadjemi , Leyuan Fang , Hossein Rabbani , Yi Zhang

Limited Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) often faces significant challenges due to missing angular information. Unlike previous methods that operate in the image domain, we propose a new method that focuses on sinogram inpainting. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jiaqi Guo , Santiago Lopez-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Denoising of clinical CT images is an active area for deep learning research. Current clinically approved methods use iterative reconstruction methods to reduce the noise in CT images. Iterative reconstruction techniques require multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Mayank Patwari , Ralf Gutjahr , Rainer Raupach , Andreas Maier

Radiomics is an active area of research in medical image analysis, the low reproducibility of radiomics has limited its applicability to clinical practice. This issue is especially prominent when radiomic features are calculated from noisy…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-16 Junhua Chen , Chong Zhang , Alberto Traverso , Ivan Zhovannik , Andre Dekker , Leonard Wee , Inigo Bermejo

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is pervasive in both the research and clinical practice of Ophthalmology. However, OCT images are strongly corrupted by noise, limiting their interpretation. Current OCT denoisers leverage assumptions on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Guillaume Gisbert , Neel Dey , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig