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Deep-learning methods have shown promising performance for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. However, supervised methods face the problem of lacking labeled data in clinical scenarios, and the CNN-based unsupervised…
Background: Quantification of cardiac motion on pre-treatment CT imaging for stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy patients is difficult due to the presence of image artifacts caused by metal leads of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators…
Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images can significantly degrade image quality and impede accurate diagnosis. Supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods, trained using simulated datasets, often struggle to perform well on…
Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is a challenging problem in computed tomography (CT) imaging. A popular class of MAR methods replace sinogram measurements that are corrupted by metal with artificial data. While these ``projection…
Computed Tomography (CT) using synchrotron radiation is a powerful technique that, compared to lab-CT techniques, boosts high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing access to a range of contrast-formation mechanisms. The…
The problem of Cortical Surface Reconstruction from magnetic resonance imaging has been traditionally addressed using lengthy pipelines of image processing techniques like FreeSurfer, CAT, or CIVET. These frameworks require very long…
Spectral computed tomography has received considerable interest in recent years since spectral measurements contain much richer information about the object of interest. In spectral computed tomography, we are interested in the energy…
Image compression is one of the essential methods of image processing. Its most prominent advantage is the significant reduction of image size allowing for more efficient storage and transfer. However, lossy compression is associated with…
In computed tomography (CT), the forward model consists of a linear Radon transform followed by an exponential nonlinearity based on the attenuation of light according to the Beer-Lambert Law. Conventional reconstruction often involves…
The use of CT imaging is important for screening, diagnosis, therapy planning, and prognosis of lung cancers. Unfortunately, due to differences in imaging protocols and scanner models, CT images acquired by different means may show large…
Metal artifact reduction (MAR) is one of the most important research topics in computed tomography (CT). With the advance of deep learning technology for image reconstruction,various deep learning methods have been also suggested for metal…
This paper proposes a spatial-Radon domain CT image reconstruction model based on data-driven tight frames (SRD-DDTF). The proposed SRD-DDTF model combines the idea of joint image and Radon domain inpainting model of \cite{Dong2013X} and…
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is routinely acquired in radiotherapy but suffers from severe artifacts and unreliable Hounsfield Unit (HU) values, limiting its direct use for dose calculation. Synthetic CT (sCT) generation from CBCT is therefore an…
Retinex theory provides a principled foundation for low-light image enhancement, inspiring numerous learning-based methods that integrate its principles. However, existing methods exhibits limitations in accurately decomposing reflectance…
X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstructs the internal morphology of a three dimensional object from a collection of projection images, most commonly using a single rotation axis. However, for objects containing dense materials like…
X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is an important tool for high-resolution non-destructive characterization of additively-manufactured metal components. XCT reconstructions of metal components may have beam hardening artifacts such as cupping…
Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…
Computed Tomography is a powerful imaging technique that allows non-destructive visualization of the interior of physical objects in different scientific areas. In traditional reconstruction techniques the object of interest is mostly…
Images taken in low light often show color shift, low contrast, noise, and other artifacts that hurt computer-vision accuracy. Retinex theory addresses this by viewing an image S as the pixel-wise product of reflectance R and illumination…
Current deep neural network based approaches to computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) are supervised methods that rely on synthesized metal artifacts for training. However, as synthesized data may not accurately simulate…