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Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

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Currently generative adversarial networks (GANs) are rarely applied to medical images of large sizes, especially 3D volumes, due to their large computational demand. We propose a novel multi-scale patch-based GAN approach to generate large…

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Corneal diseases are the most common eye disorders. Deep learning techniques are used to per-form automated diagnoses of cornea. Deep learning networks require large-scale annotated datasets, which is conceded as a weakness of deep…

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Computed tomography (CT) is a beneficial imaging tool for diagnostic purposes. CT scans provide detailed information concerning the internal anatomic structures of a patient, but present higher radiation dose and costs compared to X-ray…

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A novel method for sinogram denoise based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the field of SPECT imaging is presented. Projection data from software phantoms were used to train the proposed model. For evaluation of the efficacy of…

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X-ray tomography is capable of imaging the interior of objects in three dimensions non-invasively, with applications in biomedical imaging, materials science, electronic inspection, and other fields. The reconstruction process can be an…

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Computed tomography (CT) has been developed as a non-destructive technique for observing minute internal images of samples. It has been difficult to obtain photo-realistic (clean or clear) CT images due to various unwanted artifacts…

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LDCT has drawn major attention in the medical imaging field due to the potential health risks of CT-associated X-ray radiation to patients. Reducing the radiation dose, however, decreases the quality of the reconstructed images, which…

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Noise and artifacts are intrinsic to low dose CT (LDCT) data acquisition, and will significantly affect the imaging performance. Perfect noise removal and image restoration is intractable in the context of LDCT due to the statistical and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Peixi Liao , Hongyu Yang , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

Incorporating computed tomography (CT) reconstruction operators into differentiable pipelines has proven beneficial in many applications. Such approaches usually focus on the projection data and keep the acquisition geometry fixed. However,…

X-ray computed tomography (CT) based on photon counting detectors (PCD) extends standard CT by counting detected photons in multiple energy bins. PCD data can be used to increase the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), increase spatial…

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Inspired by their success in solving challenging inverse problems in computer vision, implicit neural representations (INRs) have been recently proposed for reconstruction in low-dose/sparse-view X-ray computed tomography (CT). An INR…

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