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Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…

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Self-supervised learning has been increasingly investigated for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image denoising, as it alleviates the dependence on paired normal-dose CT (NDCT) data, which are often difficult to collect. However, many…

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In the past few years, there are several researches on Parkinson's disease (PD) recognition using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images with deep learning (DL) approach. However, the DL model's complexity usually results…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) became a clear trend in radiology with an aspiration to refrain from delivering excessive X-ray radiation to the patients. The reduction of the radiation dose decreases the risks to the patients but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Elvira Zainulina , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Dmitry V. Dylov

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising algorithms aim to enable reduced patient dose in routine CT acquisitions while maintaining high image quality. Recently, deep learning~(DL)-based methods were introduced, outperforming…

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In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

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Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

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Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables material-specific imaging through acquisitions at two different X-ray energy spectra. Material decomposition from DECT data is an ill-posed inverse problem that is highly sensitive to noise…

The recent application of deep learning (DL) to various tasks has seen the performance of classical techniques surpassed by their DL-based counterparts. As a result, DL has equally seen application in the removal of noise from images. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Basit O. Alawode , Motaz Alfarraj

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is widely applied for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Reducing the dose of the injected tracer is essential for lowering the patient's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xiongchao Chen , Bo Zhou , Huidong Xie , Xueqi Guo , Qiong Liu , Albert J. Sinusas , Chi Liu

Deep-learning (DL)-based image deconvolution (ID) has exhibited remarkable recovery performance, surpassing traditional linear methods. However, unlike traditional ID approaches that rely on analytical properties of the point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Roman Jacome , Sergio Urrea , Henry Arguello , Luis Gonzalez

Deep learning is a very promising technique for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image denoising. However, traditional deep learning methods require paired noisy and clean datasets, which are often difficult to obtain. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yuting Zhu , Qiang He , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

A variety of supervise learning methods are available for low-dose CT denoising in the sinogram domain. Traditional model observers are widely employed to evaluate these methods. However, the sinogram domain evaluation remains an open…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Yongyi Shi , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Image denoising is an important problem in low-level vision and serves as a critical module for many image recovery tasks. Anisotropic diffusion is a wide family of image denoising approaches with promising performance. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xinran Qin , Yuhui Quan , Ruotao Xu , Hui Ji

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Deep learning has achieved notable performance in the denoising task of low-quality medical images and the detection task of lesions, respectively. However, existing low-quality medical image denoising approaches are disconnected from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Kecheng Chen , Kun Long , Yazhou Ren , Jiayu Sun , Xiaorong Pu

Image denoising algorithms have been extensively investigated for medical imaging. To perform image denoising, penalized least-squares (PLS) problems can be designed and solved, in which the penalty term encodes prior knowledge of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Wentao Chen , Tianming Xu , Weimin Zhou

Low Dose CT Denoising research aims to reduce the risks of radiation exposure to patients. Recently researchers have used deep learning to denoise low dose CT images with promising results. However, approaches that use mean-squared-error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Sepehr Ataei , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Medical image denoising is essential for improving image quality while minimizing the exposure of sensitive information, particularly when working with large-scale clinical datasets. This study explores distributed deep learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sulaimon Oyeniyi Adebayo , Ayaz H. Khan

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

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