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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

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

Computed Tomography serves as an indispensable tool in clinical workflows, providing non-invasive visualization of internal anatomical structures. Existing CT reconstruction works are limited to small-capacity model architecture and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Weihao Yu , Chenxin Li , Alexandre Alahi , Max Meng , Yixuan Yuan

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of widely used diagnostic tools for medical and dental tomographic imaging of the human body. However, the standard filtered backprojection reconstruction method requires the complete knowledge of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

In this paper, we present XctDiff, an algorithm framework for reconstructing CT from a single radiograph, which decomposes the reconstruction process into two easily controllable tasks: feature extraction and CT reconstruction.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Qingze Bai , Tiange Liu , Zhi Liu , Yubing Tong , Drew Torigian , Jayaram Udupa

Computed tomography (CT) is an effective medical imaging modality, widely used in the field of clinical medicine for the diagnosis of various pathologies. Advances in Multidetector CT imaging technology have enabled additional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Abril Corona-Figueroa , Jonathan Frawley , Sam Bond-Taylor , Sarath Bethapudi , Hubert P. H. Shum , Chris G. Willcocks

Computed tomography (CT) uses X-ray measurements taken from sensors around the body to generate tomographic images of the human body. Conventional reconstruction algorithms can be used if the X-ray data are adequately sampled and of high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ruiwen Xing , Thomas Humphries , Dong Si

Sparse-view 3D CT reconstruction aims to recover volumetric structures from a limited number of 2D X-ray projections. Existing feedforward methods are constrained by the scarcity of large-scale training datasets and the absence of direct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Guofeng Zhang , Ruyi Zha , Hao He , Yixun Liang , Alan Yuille , Hongdong Li , Yuanhao Cai

X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Jia , Bin Dong , Yifei Lou , Steve B. Jiang

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstructs cross-sectional images from projection data. However, ionizing X-ray radiation associated with CT scanning might induce cancer and genetic damage. Therefore, the reduction of radiation dose has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Huidong Xie , Hongming Shan , Wenxiang Cong , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Ge Wang

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

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

Low-dose tomography is highly preferred in medical procedures for its reduced radiation risk when compared to standard-dose Computed Tomography (CT). However, the lower the intensity of X-rays, the higher the acquisition noise and hence the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Preeti Gopal , Sharat Chandran , Imants Svalbe , Ajit Rajwade

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Hisaichi Shibata , Shouhei Hanaoka , Yukihiro Nomura , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Naoto Hayashi , Osamu Abe

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in brain disease diagnosis, but it is not always feasible for certain patients due to physical or clinical constraints. Recent studies attempt to synthesize MRI from Computed Tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Junming Liu , Yifei Sun , Weihua Cheng , Yujin Kang , Yirong Chen , Ding Wang , Guosun Zeng

Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sho Ozaki , Shizuo Kaji , Toshikazu Imae , Kanabu Nawa , Hideomi Yamashita , Keiichi Nakagawa

Computed tomography (CT) provides high spatial resolution visualization of 3D structures for scientific and clinical applications. Traditional analytical/iterative CT reconstruction algorithms require hundreds of angular data samplings, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Di Xu , Yang Yang , Hengjie Liu , Qihui Lyu , Martina Descovich , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng