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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

Recently, interest in MR-only treatment planning using synthetic CTs (synCTs) has grown rapidly in radiation therapy. However, developing class solutions for medical images that contain atypical anatomy remains a major limitation. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Hajar Emami , Ming Dong , Carri K. Glide-Hurst

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

X-ray computed tomography (CT) uses different filter kernels to highlight different structures. Since the raw sinogram data is usually removed after the reconstruction, in case there are additional need for other types of kernel images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Serin Yang , Eung Yeop Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and brain exploration. However, limited by hardware, scanning time and cost, it's challenging to acquire high-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance (MR) image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Senrong You , Yong Liu , Baiying Lei , Shuqiang Wang

Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jussi Toivanen , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Ville Kolehmainen

This work investigates the use of guided attention in the reconstruction of CTvolumes from biplanar DRRs. We try to improve the visual image quality of the CT reconstruction using Guided Attention based GANs (GA-GAN). We also consider the…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important medical imaging modality, but its acquisition speed is quite slow due to the physiological limitations. Recently, super-resolution methods have shown excellent performance in accelerating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Guangyuan Li , Jun Lv , Xiangrong Tong , Chengyan Wang , Guang Yang

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great superiority in lesion detection, tissue characterization and material decomposition. To further extend its potential clinical applications, in this work, we propose an improved tensor dictionary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Weiwen Wu , Yanbo Zhang , Qian Wang , Fenglin Liu , Peijun Chen , Hengyong Yu

Metal Artifacts creates often difficulties for a high quality visual assessment of post-operative imaging in {c}omputed {t}omography (CT). A vast body of methods have been proposed to tackle this issue, but {these} methods were designed for…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures cross-sectional data and is used for the screening, monitoring, and treatment planning of retinal diseases. Technological developments to increase the speed of acquisition often results in systems…

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As one of the most commonly ordered imaging tests, computed tomography (CT) scan comes with inevitable radiation exposure that increases the cancer risk to patients. However, CT image quality is directly related to radiation dose, thus it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Xiaowe Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Jinglan Liu , Yukun Ding , Tianchen Wang , Hailong Qiu , Haiyun Yuan , Jian Zhuang , Wen Xie , Yuhao Dong , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Yiyu Shi

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

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Data availability plays a critical role for the performance of deep learning systems. This challenge is especially acute within the medical image domain, particularly when pathologies are involved, due to two factors: 1) limited number of…

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Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qiaoqiao Ding , Hui Ji , Yuhui Quan , Xiaoqun Zhang

Parallel imaging accelerates MRI data acquisition by acquiring additional sensitivity information with an array of receiver coils, resulting in fewer phase encoding steps. Because of fewer data requirements than parallel imaging, compressed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Farhan Sadik , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

Image inpainting is a widely used technique in computer vision for reconstructing missing or damaged pixels in images. Recent advancements with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated superior performance over traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nafiz Al Asad , Md. Appel Mahmud Pranto , Shbiruzzaman Shiam , Musaddeq Mahmud Akand , Mohammad Abu Yousuf , Khondokar Fida Hasan , Mohammad Ali Moni

In this work, we propose a new paradigm of iterative model-based reconstruction algorithms for providing real-time solution for zooming-in and refining a region of interest in medical and clinical tomographic images. This algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are increasingly used to generate synthetic medical images, addressing the critical shortage of annotated data for training Artificial Intelligence systems. This study introduces CRF-GAN, a novel…

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