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Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Huidong Xie , Weijie Gan , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Liang Guo , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Ge Wang , Chi Liu

Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Wenjun Xia , Yongyi Shi , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Computed tomography (CT) has been used worldwide as a non-invasive test to assist in diagnosis. However, the ionizing nature of X-ray exposure raises concerns about potential health risks such as cancer. The desire for lower radiation doses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Yucheng Lu , Zhixin Xu , Moon Hyung Choi , Jimin Kim , Seung-Won Jung

Diffusion Models (DMs) utilize an iterative denoising process to transform random noise into synthetic data. Initally proposed with a UNet structure, DMs excel at producing images that are virtually indistinguishable with or without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuewei Yang , Jialiang Wang , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Hongbo Zhang

Ultra-high resolution images are desirable in photon counting CT (PCCT), but resolution is physically limited by interactions such as charge sharing. Deep learning is a possible method for super-resolution (SR), but sourcing paired training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Christopher Wiedeman , Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Bruno De Man , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

The acquisition conditions for low-dose and high-dose CT images are usually different, so that the shifts in the CT numbers often occur. Accordingly, unsupervised deep learning-based approaches, which learn the target image distribution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Chanyong Jung , Joonhyung Lee , Sunkyoung You , Jong Chul Ye

Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include adding more layers or repeating a modularized clone model in a sequence. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is widely used to reduce radiation exposure to mitigate high exposure side effects, but often suffers from noise and artifacts that affect diagnostic accuracy. To tackle this issue, deep learning models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Taifour Yousra , Beghdadi Azeddine , Marie Luong , Zuheng Ming

Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely utilized imaging modality in clinical settings. Using densely acquired rotational X-ray arrays, CT can capture 3D spatial features. However, it is confronted with challenged such as significant time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Duoyou Chen , Yunqing Chen , Can Zhang , Zhou Wang , Cheng Chen , Ruoxiu Xiao

This paper proposes a deep learning-based denoising method for noisy low-dose computerized tomography (CT) images in the absence of paired training data. The proposed method uses a fidelity-embedded generative adversarial network (GAN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Hyoung Suk Park , Jineon Baek , Sun Kyoung You , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

We present a novel generative approach based on Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs), which produces high-quality image samples along with their losslessly compressed bit-stream representations. This is obtained by replacing the standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Guy Ohayon , Hila Manor , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) can be used to reduce radiation dose greatly but is suffers from severe image artifacts. Recently, the deep learning based method for sparse-view CT reconstruction has attracted a major attention.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Wenjun Xia , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in producing high-quality images in medical image translation to aid disease diagnosis, localization, and treatment. Nevertheless, current diffusion models have limited success in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiaoxue Qian , You Zhang

Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in CT imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in image generation. Discretizing image data into tokens is a critical step for effectively integrating images with Transformer and other architectures. Although the Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Fei Kong