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Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in CT imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit…

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In the intention of minimizing excessive X-ray radiation administration to patients, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become a distinct trend in radiology. However, while lowering the radiation dose reduces the risk to the patient,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Long Zhou , Xiaozhuang Wang , Min Hou , Ping Li , Chunlong Fu , Yanjun Ren , Tingting Shao , Xi Hu , Jihong Sun , Hongwei Ye

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

Deep learning-based approaches for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of CT liver images is an active field of research, but suffers from some critical limitations. First, they are heavily reliant on labeled data, which can be challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm , Eirik Agnalt Østmo , Keyur Radiya , Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Michael Christian Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

Model based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithms for low-dose X-ray CT are computationally expensive. To address this problem, we recently proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for low-dose X-ray CT and won the second…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-29 Eunhee Kang , Jaejun Yoo , Jong Chul Ye

Many techniques have been proposed for image reconstruction in medical imaging that aim to recover high-quality images especially from limited or corrupted measurements. Model-based reconstruction methods have been particularly popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhishen Huang , Siqi Ye , Michael T. McCann , Saiprasad Ravishankar

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in clinical applications such as diagnosis and image-guided interventions. In this paper, we propose a new deep learning based model for CT image reconstruction with the backbone network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Haimiao Zhang , Baodong Liu , Hengyong Yu , Bin Dong

With the development of deep learning, medical image processing has been widely used to assist clinical research. This paper focuses on the denoising problem of low-dose computed tomography using deep learning. Although low-dose computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhilin Guan , Wei Zhang

Although sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has significantly reduced radiation dose, it also introduces severe artifacts which degrade the image quality. In recent years, deep learning-based methods for inverse problems have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Shuo Xu , Yucheng Zhang , Gang Chen , Xincheng Xiang , Peng Cong , Yuewen Sun

Recently, Self-supervised learning methods able to perform image denoising without ground truth labels have been proposed. These methods create low-quality images by adding random or Gaussian noise to images and then train a model for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Dongkyu Won , Euijin Jung , Sion An , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Signal models based on sparse representations have received considerable attention in recent years. On the other hand, deep models consisting of a cascade of functional layers, commonly known as deep neural networks, have been highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Xikai Yang , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Deep learning (DL) methods have been extensively applied to various image recovery problems, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Beyond supervised models, other approaches have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Shijun Liang , Ismail Alkhouri , Qing Qu , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

We present a comprehensive overview of the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework and its applications to image reconstruction in computed tomography. Unlike conventional deep learning methods that rely on large, supervised datasets, the DIP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Simon Arridge , Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Low dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for reduced patient dose. This work develops image reconstruction methods with deep learning (DL) regularization for LDCT. Our methods are based on unrolling of proximal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Qiaoqiao Ding , Gaoyu Chen , Xiaoqun Zhang , Qiu Huang , Hui Jiand Hao Gao

In tissue characterization and cancer diagnostics, multimodal imaging has emerged as a powerful technique. Thanks to computational advances, large datasets can be exploited to discover patterns in pathologies and improve diagnosis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Eva Breznik , Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Synchrotron-based X-ray computed tomography is widely used for investigating inner structures of specimens at high spatial resolutions. However, potential beam damage to samples often limits the X-ray exposure during tomography experiments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Ziling Wu , Tekin Bicer , Zhengchun Liu , Vincent De Andrade , Yunhui Zhu , Ian T. Foster

Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Dirk Elias Schut , Adriaan Graas , Robert van Liere , Tristan van Leeuwen

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but suffered from prolonged acquisition time. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to accelerate acquisition and demonstrate promising performance, they rely…

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