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Obtaining accurate and reliable images from low-dose computed tomography (CT) is challenging. Regression convolutional neural network (CNN) models that are learned from training data are increasingly gaining attention in low-dose CT…

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In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Spectral computed tomography (CT) with photon-counting detectors holds immense potential for material discrimination and tissue characterization. However, under ultra-low-dose conditions, the sharply degraded signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in…

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The capability of generalization to unseen domains is crucial for deep learning models when considering real-world scenarios. However, current available medical image datasets, such as those for COVID-19 CT images, have large variations of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Qiangguo Jin , Hui Cui , Changming Sun , Zhaopeng Meng , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

This paper proposes a sinogram consistency learning method to deal with beam-hardening related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

This paper proposes a spatial-Radon domain CT image reconstruction model based on data-driven tight frames (SRD-DDTF). The proposed SRD-DDTF model combines the idea of joint image and Radon domain inpainting model of \cite{Dong2013X} and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Ruohan Zhan , Bin Dong

Four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (4D-MRI) is an emerging technique for tumor motion management in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, current 4D-MRI suffers from low spatial resolution and strong motion artifacts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Shaohua Zhi , Yinghui Wang , Haonan Xiao , Ti Bai , Hong Ge , Bing Li , Chenyang Liu , Wen Li , Tian Li , Jing Cai

We propose neural network layers that explicitly combine frequency and image feature representations and show that they can be used as a versatile building block for reconstruction from frequency space data. Our work is motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Nalini M. Singh , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Adrian V. Dalca , Polina Golland

In several image acquisition and processing steps of X-ray radiography, knowledge of the existence of metal implants and their exact position is highly beneficial (e.g. dose regulation, image contrast adjustment). Another application which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Fuxin Fan , Ludwig Ritschl , Marcel Beister , Ramyar Biniazan , Björn Kreher , Tristan M. Gottschalk , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

The main focus of this work is a novel framework for the joint reconstruction and segmentation of parallel MRI (PMRI) brain data. We introduce an image domain deep network for calibrationless recovery of undersampled PMRI data. The proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Aniket Pramanik , Mathews Jacob

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…

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Deep convolutional networks (CNNs) have exhibited their potential in image inpainting for producing plausible results. However, in most existing methods, e.g., context encoder, the missing parts are predicted by propagating the surrounding…

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Lossy compression introduces complex compression artifacts, particularly the blocking artifacts, ringing effects and blurring. Existing algorithms either focus on removing blocking artifacts and produce blurred output, or restores sharpened…

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X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most important diagnostic imaging techniques in clinical applications. Sparse-view CT imaging reduces the number of projection views to a lower radiation dose and alleviates the potential risk of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Xiaohong Fan , Ke Chen , Huaming Yi , Yin Yang , Jianping Zhang

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have demonstrated significant potential in accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, they often encounter high computational costs and slow convergence rates. Besides, they struggle to fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Xiaoyu Qiao , Weisheng Li , Guofen Wang , Yuping Huang

Metal artifact significantly degrades Computed Tomography (CT) image quality, impeding accurate clinical diagnosis. However, existing deep learning approaches, such as CNN and Transformer, often fail to explicitly capture the directional…

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Several dual-domain convolutional neural network-based methods show outstanding performance in reducing image compression artifacts. However, they suffer from handling color images because the compression processes for gray-scale and color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen , Xiang Tian , Fan Zhou , Xuesong Liu

Reconstructing images using Computed Tomography (CT) in an industrial context leads to specific challenges that differ from those encountered in other areas, such as clinical CT. Indeed, non-destructive testing with industrial CT will often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Emilien Valat , Andreas Hauptmann , Ozan Öktem

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…

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State-of-the-art document dewarping techniques learn to predict 3-dimensional information of documents which are prone to errors while dealing with documents with irregular distortions or large variations in depth. This paper presents…

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