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Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods for the generation of synthetic computed tomography (sCT) have received significant research attention as an alternative to classical ones. We present here a systematic review of these methods by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Maria Francesca Spadea , Matteo Maspero , Paolo Zaffino , Joao Seco

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

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In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), image acquisitions are often undersampled in the measurement domain to accelerate the scanning process, at the expense of image quality. However, image quality is a crucial factor that influences the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Mehrtash Harandi , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)-guided puncture has become an established approach for diagnosing and treating early- to mid-stage thoracic tumours, yet the associated radiation exposure substantially elevates the risk of secondary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haoshen Wang , Lei Chen , Wei-Hua Zhang , Linxia Wu , Yong Luo , Zengmao Wang , Yuan Xiong , Chengcheng Zhu , Wenjuan Tang , Xueyi Zhang , Wei Zhou , Xuhua Duan , Lefei Zhang , Gao-Jun Teng , Bo Du , Huangxuan Zhao

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) imaging pose significant challenges to accurate clinical diagnosis. The presence of high-density metallic implants results in artifacts that deteriorate image quality, manifesting in the forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Xinrui Zhang , Ailong Cai , Shaoyu Wang , Linyuan Wang , Zhizhong Zheng , Lei Li , Bin Yan

Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used for cancer screening, such as early detection of lung cancer. However, CT studies have varying pixel spacing due to differences in acquisition parameters. Thick slice CTs have lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Meng Li , Shiwen Shen , Wen Gao , William Hsu , Jason Cong

We present an effective post-processing method to reduce the artifacts from sparsely reconstructed cone-beam CT (CBCT) images. The proposed method is based on the state-of-the-art, image-to-image generative models with a perceptual loss as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Haofu Liao , Zhimin Huo , William J. Sehnert , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Reconstructing dynamic, time-varying scenes with computed tomography (4D-CT) is a challenging and ill-posed problem common to industrial and medical settings. Existing 4D-CT reconstructions are designed for sparse sampling schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Albert W. Reed , Hyojin Kim , Rushil Anirudh , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Jingu Kang , Suren Jayasuriya

Frame rate is a crucial consideration in cardiac ultrasound imaging and 3D sonography. Several methods have been proposed in the medical ultrasound literature aiming at accelerating the image acquisition. In this paper, we consider one such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Grigoriy Zurakhov , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael Zibulevsky , Oleg Michailovich , Dan Adam , Diana Gaitini

Low performance pixels (LPP) in Computed Tomography (CT) detectors would lead to ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them clinically unusable. In recent years, several solutions have been proposed to correct LPP…

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Tissue characterization has long been an important component of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for automatic lesion detection and further clinical planning. Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning methods on various…

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Machine learning is attracting surging interest across nearly all scientific areas by enabling the analysis of large datasets and the extraction of scientific information from incomplete data. Data-driven science is rapidly growing,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Sung Yun Lee , Do Hyung Cho , Chulho Jung , Daeho Sung , Daewoong Nam , Sangsoo Kim , Changyong Song

Image matching, which establishes correspondences between two-view images to recover 3D structure and camera geometry, serves as a cornerstone in computer vision and underpins a wide range of applications, including visual localization, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shihua Zhang , Zizhuo Li , Kaining Zhang , Yifan Lu , Yuxin Deng , Linfeng Tang , Xingyu Jiang , Jiayi Ma

With the mushrooming use of computed tomography (CT) images in clinical decision making, management of CT data becomes increasingly difficult. From the patient identification perspective, using the standard DICOM tag to track patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jiuwen Zhu , Hu Han , S. Kevin Zhou

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

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

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

In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main contributions. First, to the best knowledge of the authors, this is the…

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Three-dimensional x-ray CT image reconstruction in baggage scanning in security applications is an important research field. The variety of materials to be reconstructed is broader than medical x-ray imaging. Presence of high attenuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-20 S. Degirmenci , Joseph A. O'Sullivan , David G. Politte

Fundus images are very useful in identifying various ophthalmic disorders. However, due to the presence of artifacts, the visibility of the retina is severely affected. This may result in misdiagnosis of the disorder which may lead to more…

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