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Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

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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…

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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…

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The extensive use of medical CT has raised a public concern over the radiation dose to the patient. Reducing the radiation dose leads to increased CT image noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect not only the radiologists judgement…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful noninvasive diagnostic imaging tool that provides unparalleled soft tissue contrast and anatomical detail. Noise contamination, especially in accelerated and/or low-field acquisitions, can…

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Photon counting spectral CT (PCCT) can produce reconstructed attenuation maps in different energy channels, reflecting energy properties of the scanned object. Due to the limited photon numbers and the non-ideal detector response of each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Chaoyang Zhang , Shaojie Chang , Ti Bai , Xi Chen

Medical image acquisition is often intervented by unwanted noise that corrupts the information content. This paper introduces an unsupervised medical image denoising technique that learns noise characteristics from the available images and…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important topic in the field of radiology over the past decades. LDCT reduces ionizing radiation-induced patient health risks but it also results in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a potential…

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Assume you encounter an inverse problem that shall be solved for a large number of data, but no ground-truth data is available. To emulate this encounter, in this study, we assume it is unknown how to solve the imaging problem of Computed…

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…

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Due to its noninvasive character, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a popular diagnostic method in clinical settings. However, the low-coherence interferometric imaging procedure is inevitably contaminated by heavy speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yongqiang Huang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Leyuan Fang , Yi Zhang

Deep learning-based denoising methods have shown powerful results for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of magnetic resonance (MR) images, mostly by leveraging supervised learning with clean ground truth. However, acquiring clean ground…

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Image denoising of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important problem for clinical diagnosis with reduced radiation exposure. Previous methods are mostly trained with pairs of synthetic or misaligned LDCT and normal-dose CT (NDCT)…

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While diffusion models have set a new benchmark for quality in Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) denoising, their clinical adoption is critically hindered by extreme computational costs, with inference times often exceeding thousands of…

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There have been many image denoisers using deep neural networks, which outperform conventional model-based methods by large margins. Recently, self-supervised methods have attracted attention because constructing a large real noise dataset…

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Most of the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based CT image denoising literature shows that DNNs outperform traditional iterative methods in terms of metrics such as the RMSE, the PSNR and the SSIM. In many instances, using the same metrics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Prabhat KC , Rongping Zeng , M. Mehdi Farhangi , Kyle J. Myers

Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…

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

Background noise in many fields such as medical imaging poses significant challenges for accurate diagnosis, prompting the development of denoising algorithms. Traditional methodologies, however, often struggle to address the complexities…

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Supervised neural networks are known to achieve excellent results in various image restoration tasks. However, such training requires datasets composed of pairs of corrupted images and their corresponding ground truth targets.…

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