English
Related papers

Related papers: Trainable Joint Bilateral Filters for Enhanced Pre…

200 papers

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) aims to minimize the radiation exposure to patients while maintaining diagnostic image quality. However, traditional CT reconstruction algorithms often struggle with the ill-posed nature of the problem,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Daisy Chen

Deep learning (DL) has been increasingly applied in medical imaging, however, it requires large amounts of data, which raises many challenges related to data privacy, storage, and transfer. Federated learning (FL) is a training paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jan Fiszer , Dominika Ciupek , Maciej Malawski

Deep learning has achieved notable performance in the denoising task of low-quality medical images and the detection task of lesions, respectively. However, existing low-quality medical image denoising approaches are disconnected from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Kecheng Chen , Kun Long , Yazhou Ren , Jiayu Sun , Xiaorong Pu

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) allows to quantify the cerebral blood flow (CBF) by magnetic labeling of the arterial blood water. ASL is increasingly used in clinical studies due to its noninvasiveness, repeatability and benefits in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Cagdas Ulas , Giles Tetteh , Stephan Kaczmarz , Christine Preibisch , Bjoern H. Menze

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Low dose computed tomography is a mainstream for clinical applications. How-ever, compared to normal dose CT, in the low dose CT (LDCT) images, there are stronger noise and more artifacts which are obstacles for practical applications. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Dayang Wang , Zhan Wu , Hengyong Yu

We study the effect of incorporating self-supervised denoising as a pre-processing step for training deep learning (DL) based reconstruction methods on data corrupted by Gaussian noise. K-space data employed for training are typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Asad Aali , Marius Arvinte , Sidharth Kumar , Yamin I. Arefeen , Jonathan I. Tamir

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Variations of deep neural networks such as convolutional neural network (CNN) have been successfully applied to image denoising. The goal is to automatically learn a mapping from a noisy image to a clean image given training data consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Tianyang Wang , Mingxuan Sun , Kaoning Hu

Reducing the radiation exposure for patients in Total-body CT scans has attracted extensive attention in the medical imaging community. Given the fact that low radiation dose may result in increased noise and artifacts, which greatly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Minghan Fu , Yanhua Duan , Zhaoping Cheng , Wenjian Qin , Ying Wang , Dong Liang , Zhanli Hu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional recognition capabilities in traditional computer vision (CV) tasks. However, existing CV models often suffer a significant decrease in accuracy when confronted with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shuangchen Zhao , Changde Du , Hui Li , Huiguang He

We introduce a paradigm for nonlocal sparsity reinforced deep convolutional neural network denoising. It is a combination of a local multiscale denoising by a convolutional neural network (CNN) based denoiser and a nonlocal denoising based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-15 Cristóvão Cruz , Alessandro Foi , Vladimir Katkovnik , Karen Egiazarian

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

Low-count positron emission tomography (LCPET) imaging can reduce patients' exposure to radiation but often suffers from increased image noise and reduced lesion detectability, necessitating effective denoising techniques. Diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Yinchi Zhou , Huidong Xie , Menghua Xia , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Tianqi Chen , Jun Hou , Liang Guo , Xinyuan Zheng , Hanzhong Wang , Biao Li , Axel Rominger , Kuangyu Shi , Nicha C. Dvorneka , Chi Liu

Image demosaicking and denoising are the first two key steps of the color image production pipeline. The classical processing sequence has for a long time consisted of applying denoising first, and then demosaicking. Applying the operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Guo , Qiyu Jin , Gabriele Facciolo , Tieyong Zeng , Jean-Michel Morel

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

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

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

We propose a deep-learning approach for the joint MIMO detection and channel decoding problem. Conventional MIMO receivers adopt a model-based approach for MIMO detection and channel decoding in linear or iterative manners. However, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Taotao Wang , Lihao Zhang , Soung Chang Liew