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Computed Tomography (CT) imaging technique is widely used in geological exploration, medical diagnosis and other fields. In practice, however, the resolution of CT image is usually limited by scanning devices and great expense. Super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yukai Wang , Qizhi Teng , Xiaohai He , Junxi Feng , Tingrong Zhang

Infrared small target detection is a challenging task due to its unique characteristics (e.g., small, dim, shapeless and changeable). Recently published CNN-based methods have achieved promising performance with heavy feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yongxian Liu , Boyang Li , Ting Liu , Zaiping Lin , Wei An

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) provides on-board volumetric anatomy for image guidance and treatment adaptation in radiotherapy. To compensate for respiration-induced anatomical motion, time-resolved CBCT is highly desired to capture the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ruizhi Zuo , Hua-Chieh Shao , You Zhang

The radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) examinations is harmful for patients but can be significantly reduced by intuitively decreasing the number of projection views. Reducing projection views usually leads to severe aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bing Guan , Cailian Yang , Liu Zhang , Shanzhou Niu , Minghui Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

Intraoperative CT imaging serves as a crucial resource for surgical guidance; however, it may not always be readily accessible or practical to implement. In scenarios where CT imaging is not an option, reconstructing CT scans from X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Zhi Qiao , Xuhui Liu , Xiaopeng Wang , Runkun Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Pei Dong , Zhen Qian

A long-term goal in CT imaging is to achieve fast and accurate 3D reconstruction from sparse-view projections, thereby reducing radiation exposure, lowering system cost, and enabling timely imaging in clinical workflows. Recent feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Seungryong Lee , Woojeong Baek , Joosang Lee , Eunbyung Park

Deep learning has the potential to revolutionize medical practice by automating and performing important tasks like detecting and delineating the size and locations of cancers in medical images. However, most deep learning models rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Eirik A. Østmo , Kristoffer K. Wickstrøm , Keyur Radiya , Michael C. Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

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

In this paper we propose a convolutional neural network that is designed to upsample a series of sparse range measurements based on the contextual cues gleaned from a high resolution intensity image. Our approach draws inspiration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Ty Nguyen , Ian D. Miller , Steven W. Chen , Vijay Kumar , Camillo J. Taylor

Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

This paper proposes a new method for simultaneous 3D reconstruction and semantic segmentation of indoor scenes. Unlike existing methods that require recording a video using a color camera and/or a depth camera, our method only needs a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jingyu Yang , Ji Xu , Kun Li , Yu-Kun Lai , Huanjing Yue , Jianzhi Lu , Hao Wu , Yebin Liu

Cone-beam CT (CBCT)-based online adaptive radiotherapy calls for accurate auto-segmentation to reduce the time cost for physicians to edit contours. However, deep learning (DL)-based direct segmentation of CBCT images is a challenging task,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Ti Bai , Michael Dohopolski , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

Deep learning models have become pivotal in the field of video processing and is increasingly critical in practical applications such as autonomous driving and object detection. Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kunyun Wang , Shuo Yang , Jieru Zhao , Wenchao Ding , Quan Chen , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly utilized for image-guided radiotherapy due to its outstanding soft-tissue contrast and lack of ionizing radiation. However, geometric distortions caused by gradient nonlinearity (GNL) limit…

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Ionizing radiation has been the biggest concern in CT imaging. To reduce the dose level without compromising the image quality, low-dose CT reconstruction has been offered with the availability of compressed sensing based reconstruction…

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

Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are problematic in clinical medicine because of their low contrast and high artifact content compared with conventional CT images. Although there are some studies to improve image quality, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Naruki Murahashi , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Megumi Nakao

Quantitative image reconstruction in dual-energy computed tomography (CT) remains a topic of active research. We read with interest ``DIRECT-Net: A unified mutual-domain material decomposition network for quantitative dual-energy CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Xiaochuan Pan , Emil Y. Sidky

Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang