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Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

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

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) arise from a mismatch between physics of image formation and idealized assumptions during tomographic reconstruction. These artifacts are particularly strong around metal implants, inhibiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Jan-Nico Zaech , Cong Gao , Bastian Bier , Russell Taylor , Andreas Maier , Nassir Navab , Mathias Unberath

Deep neural network based methods have achieved promising results for CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), most of which use many synthesized paired images for training. As synthesized metal artifacts in CT images may not accurately reflect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Fenglei Fan , Hongming Shan , Mengzhou Li , Jimin Liang , Ge Wang

Metal implants in MRI cause severe artifacts that degrade image quality and hinder clinical diagnosis. Traditional approaches address metal artifact reduction (MAR) and accelerated MRI acquisition as separate problems. We propose MASC, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengyi Lu , Ming Lu , Chongyu Qu , Junchao Zhu , Junlin Guo , Marilyn Lionts , Yanfan Zhu , Yuechen Yang , Tianyuan Yao , Jayasai Rajagopal , Bennett Allan Landman , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

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

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

Computed Tomography (CT) using synchrotron radiation is a powerful technique that, compared to lab-CT techniques, boosts high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing access to a range of contrast-formation mechanisms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Recent deep learning-based methods have achieved promising performance for computed tomography metal artifact reduction (CTMAR). However, most of them suffer from two limitations: (i) the domain knowledge is not fully embedded into the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Baoshun Shi , Ke Jiang , Shaolei Zhang , Qiusheng Lian , Yanwei Qin

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) imaging pose significant challenges to accurate clinical diagnosis. The presence of high-density metallic implants results in artifacts that deteriorate image quality, manifesting in the forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Xinrui Zhang , Ailong Cai , Shaoyu Wang , Linyuan Wang , Zhizhong Zheng , Lei Li , Bin Yan

Emerging neural reconstruction techniques based on tomography (e.g., NeRF, NeAT, and NeRP) have started showing unique capabilities in medical imaging. In this work, we present a novel Polychromatic neural representation (Polyner) to tackle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Qing Wu , Lixuan Chen , Ce Wang , Hongjiang Wei , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Metal streak artifacts in X-ray computerized tomography (CT) are rigorously characterized here using the notion of the wavefront set from microlocal analysis. The metal artifacts are caused mainly from the mismatch of the forward model of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Hyoung Suk Park , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

The reduction of metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images, specifically for strong artifacts generated from multiple metal objects, is a challenging issue in medical imaging research. Although there have been some studies on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Megumi Nakao , Keiho Imanishi , Nobuhiro Ueda , Yuichiro Imai , Tadaaki Kirita , Tetsuya Matsuda

X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstructs the internal morphology of a three dimensional object from a collection of projection images, most commonly using a single rotation axis. However, for objects containing dense materials like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Diyu Yang , Craig A. J. Kemp , Soumendu Majee , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

An attention guided scheme for metal artifact correction in MRI using deep neural network is proposed in this paper. The inputs of the networks are two distorted images obtained with dual-polarity readout gradients. With MR image generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Jee Won Kim , Kinam Kwon , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park

We present an effective post-processing method to reduce the artifacts from sparsely reconstructed cone-beam CT (CBCT) images. The proposed method is based on the state-of-the-art, image-to-image generative models with a perceptual loss as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Haofu Liao , Zhimin Huo , William J. Sehnert , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Objective: X-ray computed tomography employing sparse projection views has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. However, due to the inadequate number of projection views, an analytic reconstruction method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yoseob Han

Purpose: The radial k-space trajectory is a well-established sampling trajectory used in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging. However, the radial k-space trajectory requires a large number of radial lines for high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Yo Seob Han , Jaejun Yoo , Jong Chul Ye

For the task of metal artifact reduction (MAR), although deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved promising performances, most of them suffer from two problems: 1) the CT imaging geometry constraint is not fully embedded into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Kai Ma , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

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