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The explosive rise of the use of Computer tomography (CT) imaging in medical practice has heightened public concern over the patient's associated radiation dose. However, reducing the radiation dose leads to increased noise and artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced significantly in visual representation learning and recognition. However, they face notable challenges in performance and computational efficiency when dealing with real-world, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

PET is affected by statistical noise due to constraints on tracer dose and scan duration, impacting both diagnostic performance and quantitative accuracy. While deep learning (DL)-based PET denoising methods have been used to improve image…

Due to the fast inference and good performance, discriminative learning methods have been widely studied in image denoising. However, these methods mostly learn a specific model for each noise level, and require multiple models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

The use of deep learning has successfully solved several problems in the field of medical imaging. Deep learning has been applied to the CT denoising problem successfully. However, the use of deep learning requires large amounts of data to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Mayank Patwari , Ralf Gutjahr , Rainer Raupach , Andreas Maier

Hyperspectral imaging (HI) has emerged as a powerful tool in diverse fields such as medical diagnosis, industrial inspection, and agriculture, owing to its ability to detect subtle differences in physical properties through high spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Haijin Zeng , Jiezhang Cao , Kai Feng , Shaoguang Huang , Hongyan Zhang , Hiep Luong , Wilfried Philips

Low-count PET is an efficient way to reduce radiation exposure and acquisition time, but the reconstructed images often suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), thus affecting diagnosis and other downstream tasks. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Bo Zhou , Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Zhicheng Feng , Jun Hou , S. Kevin Zhou , Biao Li , Axel Rominger , Kuangyu Shi , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for muscle-skeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical diseases, due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, ultrasound acquisition introduces noise in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Simone Cammarasana , Paolo Nicolardi , Giuseppe Patanè

Noisy images are a challenge to image compression algorithms due to the inherent difficulty of compressing noise. As noise cannot easily be discerned from image details, such as high-frequency signals, its presence leads to extra bits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Yuxin Xie , Li Yu , Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

Supervised learning-based methods yield robust denoising results, yet they are inherently limited by the need for large-scale clean/noisy paired datasets. The use of unsupervised denoisers, on the other hand, necessitates a more detailed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Nahyun Kim , Donggon Jang , Sunhyeok Lee , Bomi Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

Blind and universal image denoising consists of using a unique model that denoises images with any level of noise. It is especially practical as noise levels do not need to be known when the model is developed or at test time. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Rui Zhao , Kin-Man Lam , Daniel P. K. Lun

Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

A significant research problem of recent interest is the localization of targets like vessels, surgical needles, and tumors in photoacoustic (PA) images. To achieve accurate localization, a high photoacoustic signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Sumit Agrawal , Kerrick Johnstonbaugh , Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli , Vishal Monga

Although supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often outperform conventional alternatives for denoising positron emission tomography (PET) images, they require many low- and high-quality reference PET image pairs. Herein, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yuya Onishi , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Hiroyuki Ohba , Ryosuke Ota , Etsuji Yoshikawa , Yasuomi Ouchi