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In computed tomography (CT), the presence of metallic implants in patients often leads to disruptive artifacts in the reconstructed images, hindering accurate diagnosis. Recently, a large amount of supervised deep learning-based approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Xinquan Yang , Guanqun Zhou , Wei Sun , Youjian Zhang , Zhongya Wang , Jiahui He , Zhicheng Zhang

A conventional approach to computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT (CBCT) metal artifact reduction is to replace the X-ray projection data within the metal trace with synthesized data. However, existing projection or sinogram completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , Zhimin Huo , Levon Vogelsang , William J. Sehnert , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

A new method for reducing metal artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) images is presented. It bases on the solution of a convex optimization problem with inequality constraints on the sinogram, and total variation regularization for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Clemens Schiffer , Kristian Bredies

Total variation(TV) regularization is applied to X-Ray computed tomography(CT) in an effort to reduce metal artifacts. Tikhonov regularization with $L^2$ data fidelity term and total variation regularization is augmented in this novel model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Clemens Schiffer

CT images have been used to generate radiation therapy treatment plans for more than two decades. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has shown high accuracy in estimating electronic density or proton stopping-power maps used in treatment planning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Tao Ge , Maria Medrano , Rui Liao , Jeffrey F. Williamson , David G. Politte , Bruce R. Whiting , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

High density implants such as metals often lead to serious artifacts in the reconstructed CT images which hampers the accuracy of image based diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet frame based CT image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Baodong Liu

Current deep neural network based approaches to computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) are supervised methods which rely heavily on synthesized data for training. However, as synthesized data may not perfectly simulate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , Jianbo Yuan , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Metal objects pose a significant challenge in cone-beam computed tomography, as their strong and energy-dependent X-ray attenuation leads to inconsistent projections and severe streaking and shading artifacts in reconstructed images. These…

We introduce a new CT image reconstruction algorithm that is less affected by various artifacts. The new reconstruction algorithm is a method of minimizing the difference between synchrotron X-ray tomography data and sinograms generated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Byung Chun Kim , Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Metal artifacts in CT slices have long posed challenges in medical diagnostics. These artifacts degrade image quality, resulting in suboptimal visualization and complicating the accurate interpretation of tissues adjacent to metal implants.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Wencheng Han , Dongqian Guo , Xiao Chen , Pang Lyu , Yi Jin , Jianbing Shen

Deep learning based approaches have been used to improve image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), a medical imaging technique often used in applications such as image-guided radiation therapy, implant dentistry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mohammadreza Amirian , Daniel Barco , Ivo Herzig , Frank-Peter Schilling

For the task of metal artifact reduction (MAR), although deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved promising performances, most of them suffer from two problems: 1) the CT imaging geometry constraint is not fully embedded into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Kai Ma , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Metal implants can heavily attenuate X-rays in computed tomography (CT) scans, leading to severe artifacts in reconstructed images, which significantly jeopardize image quality and negatively impact subsequent diagnoses and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Yongqiang Huang , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

We present IllumFlow, a novel framework that synergizes conditional Rectified Flow (CRF) with Retinex theory for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). Our model addresses low-light enhancement through separate optimization of illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Wenyang Wei , Yang yang , Xixi Jia , Xiangchu Feng , Weiwei Wang , Renzhen Wang

Since the invention of modern CT systems, metal artifacts have been a persistent problem. Due to increased scattering, amplified noise, and insufficient data collection, it is more difficult to suppress metal artifacts in cone-beam CT,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Tianling Lyu , Zhan Wu , Gege Ma , Chen Jiang , Xinyun Zhong , Yan Xi , Yang Chen , Wentao Zhu

Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hari Om Aggrawal , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , Sean Rose , Emil Y. Sidky

This paper presents a two-stage method for beam hardening artifact correction of dental cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT). The proposed artifact reduction method is designed to improve the quality of maxillofacial imaging, where soft…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-09 T. Bayaraa , C. M. Hyun , T. J. Jang , S. M. Lee , J. K. Seo

CT images corrupted by metal artifacts have serious negative effects on clinical diagnosis. Considering the difficulty of collecting paired data with ground truth in clinical settings, unsupervised methods for metal artifact reduction are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Wangduo Xie , Matthew B. Blaschko

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) plays a key role in dental diagnosis and surgery. However, the metal teeth implants could bring annoying metal artifacts during the CBCT imaging process, interfering diagnosis and downstream processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuxuan Shi , Jun Xu , Dinggang Shen

Motion during acquisition of a set of projections can lead to significant motion artifacts in computed tomography reconstructions despite fast acquisition of individual views. In cases such as cardiac imaging, motion may be unavoidable and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Kunal Gupta , Brendan Colvert , Francisco Contijoch