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Metallic implants introduce severe artifacts in CT images, which degrades the image quality. It is an effective method to reduce metal artifacts by replacing the metal affected projection with the forward projection of a prior image. How to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Yanbo Zhang , Xuanqian Mou

Computed tomography (CT) has been widely used for medical diagnosis, assessment, and therapy planning and guidance. In reality, CT images may be affected adversely in the presence of metallic objects, which could lead to severe metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Lequan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Lei Xing

The presence of metallic implants often introduces severe metal artifacts in the X-ray CT images, which could adversely influence clinical diagnosis or dose calculation in radiation therapy. In this work, we present a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Lequan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Hongyi Ren , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Motion artifact is a major challenge in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that severely degrades image quality, reduces examination efficiency, and makes accurate diagnosis difficult. However, previous methods often relied on implicit models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Jiandong Su , Kun Shang , Dong Liang

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Cheng Peng , Xiaohang Sun , Jingdan Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Rama Chellappa , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Computed tomography (CT) images are often severely corrupted by artifacts in the presence of metals. Existing supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) approaches suffer from performance instability on known data due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jie Wen , Chenhe Du , Xiao Wang , Yuyao Zhang

In computed tomography (CT), metal implants increase the inconsistencies between the measured data and the linear attenuation assumption made by analytic CT reconstruction algorithms. The inconsistencies give rise to dark and bright bands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Sungsoo Ha , Klaus Mueller

During the computed tomography (CT) imaging process, metallic implants within patients often cause harmful artifacts, which adversely degrade the visual quality of reconstructed CT images and negatively affect the subsequent clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

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

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) is a notoriously challenging task because the artifacts are structured and non-local in the image domain. However, they are inherently local in the sinogram domain. Thus, one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yuanyuan Lyu , Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Jingjing Lu , S. Kevin Zhou

This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon , Jin Keun Seo

Metal artifacts from high-attenuation implants severely degrade CT image quality, obscuring critical anatomical structures and posing a challenge for standard deep learning methods that require extensive paired training data. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahmet Rasim Emirdagi , Süleyman Aslan , Mısra Yavuz , Görkay Aydemir , Yunus Bilge Kurt , Nasrin Rahimi , Burak Can Biner , M. Akın Yılmaz

In the presence of metal implants, metal artifacts are introduced to x-ray CT images. Although a large number of metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed in the past decades, MAR is still one of the major problems in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Yanbo Zhang , Hengyong Yu

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

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

During X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning, metallic implants carrying with patients often lead to adverse artifacts in the captured CT images and then impair the clinical treatment. Against this metal artifact reduction (MAR) task, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Yuexiang Li , Yawen Huang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Recent CT Metal Artifacts Reduction (MAR) methods are often based on image-to-image convolutional neural networks for adjustment of corrupted sinograms or images themselves. In this paper, we are exploring the capabilities of a multi-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Artem Pimkin , Alexander Samoylenko , Natalia Antipina , Anna Ovechkina , Andrey Golanov , Alexandra Dalechina , Mikhail Belyaev

During the process of computed tomography (CT), metallic implants often cause disruptive artifacts in the reconstructed images, impeding accurate diagnosis. Several supervised deep learning-based approaches have been proposed for reducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Xuan Liu , Yaoqin Xie , Songhui Diao , Shan Tan , Xiaokun Liang

An X-ray computed tomography (CT), metal artifact reduction (MAR) remains a major challenge because metallic implants violate standard CT forward-model assumptions, producing severe streaking and shadowing artifacts that degrade diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon

In this paper, we consider the problem of feature reconstruction from incomplete x-ray CT data. Such problems occurs, e.g., as a result of dose reduction in the context medical imaging. Since image reconstruction from incomplete data is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Simon Göppel , Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier
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