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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used for intraoperative imaging due to its rapid acquisition and low radiation dose. However, CBCT images typically suffer from artifacts and lower visual quality compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Maximilian Tschuchnig , Lukas Lamminger , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers advantages over conventional fan-beam CT in that it requires a shorter time and less exposure to obtain images. CBCT has found a wide variety of applications in patient positioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 S. Kida , S. Kaji , K. Nawa , T. Imae , T. Nakamoto , S. Ozaki , T. Ohta , Y. Nozawa , K. Nakagawa

Accurate synthesis of computed tomography (CT) images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is clinically valuable for cranial applications such as attenuation correction, radiotherapy planning, and image-guided interventions. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Zhuoyao Xin , Yiren Zhang , Christopher Wu , Dong Liu , Chunming Gu , Elena Greco , Erik H. Middlebrooks , Jun Hua , Jia Guo

Diversity in data is critical for the successful training of deep learning models. Leveraged by a recurrent generative adversarial network, we propose the CT-SGAN model that generates large-scale 3D synthetic CT-scan volumes ($\geq…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 Ahmad Pesaranghader , Yiping Wang , Mohammad Havaei

We present an efficient deep learning approach for the challenging task of tumor segmentation in multisequence MR images. In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performances in a large variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Radiation therapy (RT) is widely employed in the clinic for the treatment of head and neck (HaN) cancers. An essential step of RT planning is the accurate segmentation of various organs-at-risks (OARs) in HaN CT images. Nevertheless,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Zijie Chen , Cheng Li , Junjun He , Jin Ye , Diping Song , Shanshan Wang , Lixu Gu , Yu Qiao

This study investigates a 3D and fully convolutional neural network (CNN) for subcortical brain structure segmentation in MRI. 3D CNN architectures have been generally avoided due to their computational and memory requirements during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 J. Dolz , C. Desrosiers , I. Ben Ayed

Purpose: Medical imaging has become increasingly important in diagnosing and treating oncological patients, particularly in radiotherapy. Recent advances in synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation have increased interest in public…

Accurate synthesis of a full 3D MR image containing tumours from available MRI (e.g. to replace an image that is currently unavailable or corrupted) would provide a clinician as well as downstream inference methods with important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Raghav Mehta , Tal Arbel

The ability to synthesise Computed Tomography images - commonly known as pseudo CT, or pCT - from MRI input data is commonly assessed using an intensity-wise similarity, such as an L2-norm between the ground truth CT and the pCT. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Kerstin Kläser , Thomas Varsavsky , Pawel Markiewicz , Tom Vercauteren , David Atkinson , Kris Thielemans , Brian Hutton , M Jorge Cardoso , Sebastien Ourselin

MRI-guided radiation treatment planning is widely applied because of its superior soft-tissue contrast and no ionization radiation compared to CT-based planning. In this regard, synthetic CT (sCT) images should be generated from the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Abbas Bahrami , Alireza Karimian , Hossein Arabi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Fausto Milletari , Nassir Navab , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

Purpose: To assess the feasibility of deep learning-based high resolution synthetic CT generation from MRI scans of the lower arm for orthopedic applications. Methods: A conditional Generative Adversarial Network was trained to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Frank Zijlstra , Koen Willemsen , Mateusz C. Florkow , Ralph J. B. Sakkers , Harrie H. Weinans , Bart C. H. van der Wal , Marijn van Stralen , Peter R. Seevinck

Industrial X-ray cone-beam CT (XCT) scanners are widely used for scientific imaging and non-destructive characterization. Industrial CBCT scanners use large detectors containing millions of pixels and the subsequent 3D reconstructions can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Aniket Pramanik , Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan , Obaidullah Rahman , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

In many clinical settings, the use of both Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MRI) is necessary to pursue a thorough understanding of the patient's anatomy and to plan a suitable therapeutical strategy; this is often the case…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Leonardo Crespi , Samuele Camnasio , Damiano Dei , Nicola Lambri , Pietro Mancosu , Marta Scorsetti , Daniele Loiacono

To achieve magnetic resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy, a method needs to be employed to estimate a synthetic CT (sCT) for generating electron density maps and patient positioning reference images. We investigated 2D and 3D convolutional…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Jie Fu , Yingli Yang , Kamal Singhrao , Dan Ruan , Daniel A. Low , John H. Lewis

Purpose: Organ-at-risk (OAR) delineation is a key step for cone-beam CT (CBCT) based adaptive radiotherapy planning that can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subject-to-variability process. We aim to develop a fully automated…

Inspired by the success of deep learning applications on restoration of low-dose and sparse CT images, we propose a novel method to reconstruct high-quality 4D cone-beam CT (4DCBCT) images from sparse datasets. Our approach combines the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Joel Beaudry , Pedro L. Esquinas

Automated methods for breast cancer detection have focused on 2D mammography and have largely ignored 3D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which is frequently used in clinical practice. The two key challenges in developing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yu Zhang , Xiaoqin Wang , Hunter Blanton , Gongbo Liang , Xin Xing , Nathan Jacobs