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Current deep neural network based approaches to computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) are supervised methods that rely on synthesized metal artifacts for training. However, as synthesized data may not accurately simulate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Computed tomography (CT) images are often severely corrupted by artifacts in the presence of metals. Existing supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) approaches suffer from performance instability on known data due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jie Wen , Chenhe Du , Xiao Wang , Yuyao Zhang

Recent CT Metal Artifacts Reduction (MAR) methods are often based on image-to-image convolutional neural networks for adjustment of corrupted sinograms or images themselves. In this paper, we are exploring the capabilities of a multi-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Artem Pimkin , Alexander Samoylenko , Natalia Antipina , Anna Ovechkina , Andrey Golanov , Alexandra Dalechina , Mikhail Belyaev

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

Deep learning based approaches have been used to improve image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), a medical imaging technique often used in applications such as image-guided radiation therapy, implant dentistry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mohammadreza Amirian , Daniel Barco , Ivo Herzig , Frank-Peter Schilling

Computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) aims to reduce the severe streaking artifacts induced by metallic implants and other high-density objects. Effective MAR generally requires both accurate artifact localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zilong Li , Chenglong Ma , Yiming Lei , Yuanlin Li , Jing Han , Jiannan Liu , Huidong Xie , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has been adopted as an important technique for speeding up data acquisition and decreasing radiation dose. However, due to the lack of sufficient projection data, the reconstructed CT images often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Hong Wang , Minghao Zhou , Dong Wei , Yuexiang Li , Yefeng Zheng

During X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning, metallic implants carrying with patients often lead to adverse artifacts in the captured CT images and then impair the clinical treatment. Against this metal artifact reduction (MAR) task, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Yuexiang Li , Yawen Huang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

In the presence of metal implants, metal artifacts are introduced to x-ray CT images. Although a large number of metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed in the past decades, MAR is still one of the major problems in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Yanbo Zhang , Hengyong Yu

Metal artefact reduction (MAR) techniques aim at removing metal-induced noise from clinical images. In Computed Tomography (CT), supervised deep learning approaches have been shown effective but limited in generalisability, as they mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Marta B. M. Ranzini , Irme Groothuis , Kerstin Kläser , M. Jorge Cardoso , Johann Henckel , Sébastien Ourselin , Alister Hart , Marc Modat

A conventional approach to computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT (CBCT) metal artifact reduction is to replace the X-ray projection data within the metal trace with synthesized data. However, existing projection or sinogram completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , Zhimin Huo , Levon Vogelsang , William J. Sehnert , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Metal artifacts from high-attenuation implants severely degrade CT image quality, obscuring critical anatomical structures and posing a challenge for standard deep learning methods that require extensive paired training data. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahmet Rasim Emirdagi , Süleyman Aslan , Mısra Yavuz , Görkay Aydemir , Yunus Bilge Kurt , Nasrin Rahimi , Burak Can Biner , M. Akın Yılmaz

Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) is often used in clinical applications such as C-arm CT for interventional imaging. However, CT images from limited angles suffers from heavy artifacts due to incomplete projection data. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

If a CT scanner introduces a new artifact not present in the training labels, the model may misclassify the images. Although modern CT scanners include design features which mitigate these artifacts, unanticipated or difficult-to-mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Justin Cheung , Samuel Savine , Calvin Nguyen , Lin Lu , Alhassan S. Yasin

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) is a notoriously challenging task because the artifacts are structured and non-local in the image domain. However, they are inherently local in the sinogram domain. Thus, one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yuanyuan Lyu , Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Jingjing Lu , S. Kevin Zhou

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is one of the most important research topics in computed tomography (CT). With the advance of deep learning technology for image reconstruction,various deep learning methods have been also suggested for metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Junghyun Lee , Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

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 correction is a challenging problem in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning. Metal implants inserted into the anatomy cause severe artifacts in reconstructed images. Widely used inpainting-based metal artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Harshit Agrawal , Ari Hietanen , Simo Särkkä

Low-dose dental cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been increasingly used for maxillofacial modeling. However, the presence of metallic inserts, such as implants, crowns, and dental filling, causes severe streaking and shading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Chang Min Hyun , Taigyntuya Bayaraa , Hye Sun Yun , Tae Jun Jang , Hyoung Suk Park , Jin Keun Seo

Metal Artifacts creates often difficulties for a high quality visual assessment of post-operative imaging in {c}omputed {t}omography (CT). A vast body of methods have been proposed to tackle this issue, but {these} methods were designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wang Zihao , Vandersteen Clair , Demarcy Thomas , Gnansia Dan , Raffaelli Charles , Guevara Nicolas , Delingette Herve