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X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in the medical, industrial, and other fields to nondestructively generate three-dimensional structural images of objects. However, CT images are often affected by various artifacts, with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yang Zou , Meili Qi , Jianhua Zhang , Difei Zhang , Shuwei Wang , Jiale Zhang , Shengkun Yao , Huaidong Jiang

The sparse-views x-ray computed tomography (CT) is essential for medical diagnosis and industrial nondestructive testing. However, in particular, the reconstructed image usually suffers from complex artifacts and noise, when the sampling is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Genwei Ma , Yining Zhu , Xing Zhao

The existence of metallic implants in projection images for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) introduces undesired artifacts which degrade the quality of reconstructed images. In order to reduce metal artifacts, projection inpainting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Fuxin Fan , Yangkong Wang , Ludwig Ritschl , Ramyar Biniazan , Marcel Beister , Björn Kreher , Yixing Huang , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Purpose To develop and evaluate a deep learning-based method (MC-Net) to suppress motion artifacts in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods MC-Net was derived from a UNet combined with a two-stage multi-loss function. T1-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Lei Zhang , Xiaoke Wang , Michael Rawson , Radu Balan , Edward H. Herskovits , Elias Melhem , Linda Chang , Ze Wang , Thomas Ernst

Due to the limits of bandwidth and storage space, digital images are usually down-scaled and compressed when transmitted over networks, resulting in loss of details and jarring artifacts that can lower the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Xiaoyu Xiang , Qian Lin , Jan P. Allebach

Compared with conventional single-energy computed tomography (CT), dual-energy CT (DECT) provides better material differentiation but most DECT imaging systems require dual full-angle projection data at different X-ray spectra. Relaxing the…

Murals, as invaluable cultural artifacts, face continuous deterioration from environmental factors and human activities. Digital restoration of murals faces unique challenges due to their complex degradation patterns and the critical need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yingtie Lei , Fanghai Yi , Yihang Dong , Weihuang Liu , Xiaofeng Zhang , Zimeng Li , Chi-Man Pun , Xuhang Chen

X-ray CT often suffers from shadowing and streaking artifacts in the presence of metallic materials, which severely degrade imaging quality. Physically, the linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of metals vary significantly with X-ray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Qing Wu , Xu Guo , Lixuan Chen , Yanyan Liu , Dongming He , Xudong Wang , Xueli Chen , Yifeng Zhang , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Deep learning models tend to underperform in the presence of domain shifts. Domain transfer has recently emerged as a promising approach wherein images exhibiting a domain shift are transformed into other domains for augmentation or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Weinan Song , Gaurav Fotedar , Nima Tajbakhsh , Ziheng Zhou , Lei He , Xiaowei Ding

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 CT (LDCT) is capable of reducing X-ray radiation exposure, but it will potentially degrade image quality, even yields metal artifacts at the case of metallic implants. For simultaneous LDCT reconstruction and metal artifact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Baoshun Shi , Bing Chen , Shaolei Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Zhanli Hu

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is a challenging problem in computed tomography (CT) imaging. A popular class of MAR methods replace sinogram measurements that are corrupted by metal with artificial data. While these ``projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 T. Humphries , J. Wang

Model based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithms for low-dose X-ray CT are computationally complex because of the repeated use of the forward and backward projection. Inspired by this success of deep learning in computer vision…

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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Chen Qin , Jinming Duan , Kerstin Hammernik , Jo Schlemper , Thomas Küstner , René Botnar , Claudia Prieto , Anthony N. Price , Joseph V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to combine complementary information from both modalities to provide a more comprehensive scene understanding. However, due to the significant differences between the two modalities, preserving key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jian Xu , Xin He

This paper shows that it is possible to train large and deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) for JPEG compression artifacts reduction, and that such networks can provide significantly better reconstruction quality compared to previously…

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Purpose: To develop an efficient dual-domain reconstruction framework for multi-contrast MRI, with the focus on minimising cross-contrast misalignment in both the image and the frequency domains to enhance optimisation. Theory and Methods:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Junwei Yang , Pietro Liò

This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

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Photon-counting spectral computed tomography is now clinically available. These new detectors come with the promise of higher contrast-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution and improved low-dose imaging. However, one important design…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Dennis Hein , Konstantinos Liappis , Fredrik Grönberg , Alma Eguizabal , Mats Persson

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…

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