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Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Giammarco La Barbera , Haithem Boussaid , Francesco Maso , Sabine Sarnacki , Laurence Rouet , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in engineering and medicine for imaging the interior of objects, patients, or animals. If the employed X-ray source is monoenergetic, image reconstruction essentially means the inversion of a ray…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Georgios Papanikos , Benedikt Wirth

Computed tomography (CT) is critical for various clinical applications, e.g., radiotherapy treatment planning and also PET attenuation correction. However, CT exposes radiation during acquisition, which may cause side effects to patients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Dong Nie , Roger Trullo , Caroline Petitjean , Su Ruan , Dinggang Shen

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Kyungtaek Jun

X-ray imaging is the most popular medical imaging technology. While x-ray radiography is rather cost-effective, tissue structures are superimposed along the x-ray paths. On the other hand, computed tomography (CT) reconstructs internal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Chuang Niu , Ge Wang

In the field of clinical medicine, computed tomography (CT) is an effective medical imaging modality for the diagnosis of various pathologies. Compared with X-ray images, CT images can provide more information, including multi-planar slices…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Jing Hu , Qinrui Fan , Shu Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Computational anatomy allows the quantitative analysis of organs in medical images. However, most analysis is constrained to the millimeter scale because of the limited resolution of clinical computed tomography (CT). X-ray microtomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Holger R. Roth , Kai Nagara , Hirohisa Oda , Masahiro Oda , Tomoshi Sugiyama , Shota Nakamura , Kensaku Mori

Purpose: The goal is to develop a new architecture for computed tomography (CT) which is at an ultra-low-dose for developing countries, especially in rural areas. Methods: The proposed scheme is inspired by the recently developed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Fenglin Liu , Hengyong Yu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Synthetic CT image generation from MRI scan is necessary to create radiotherapy plans without the need of co-registered MRI and CT scans. The chosen baseline adversarial model with cycle consistency permits unpaired image-to-image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Denis Prokopenko , Joël Valentin Stadelmann , Heinrich Schulz , Steffen Renisch , Dmitry V. Dylov

Medical image translation has the potential to reduce the imaging workload, by removing the need to capture some sequences, and to reduce the annotation burden for developing machine learning methods. GANs have been used successfully to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Pauliina Paavilainen , Saad Ullah Akram , Juho Kannala

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Industrial cone-beam X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans of additively manufactured components produce a 3D reconstruction from projection measurements acquired at multiple predetermined rotation angles of the component about a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Jingsong Lin , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Gregery Buzzard , Amir Koushyar Ziabari , Charles Bouman

Computer-Assisted Interventions enable clinicians to perform precise, minimally invasive procedures, often relying on advanced imaging methods. Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) can be used to facilitate computer-assisted interventions,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of widely used diagnostic tools for medical and dental tomographic imaging of the human body. However, the standard filtered backprojection reconstruction method requires the complete knowledge of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

Unlike previous works, this open data collection consists of X-ray cone-beam (CB) computed tomography (CT) datasets specifically designed for machine learning applications and high cone-angle artefact reduction. Forty-two walnuts were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Henri Der Sarkissian , Felix Lucka , Maureen van Eijnatten , Giulia Colacicco , Sophia Bethany Coban , Kees Joost Batenburg

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT) are the primary diagnostic imaging modalities quite frequently used for surgical planning and analysis. A general problem with medical imaging is that the acquisition process is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Vismay Agrawal , Avinash Kori , Vikas Kumar Anand , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

English: This paper concerns the image reconstruction from a few projections in Computed Tomography (CT). The main objective of this paper is to show that the problem is so ill posed that no classical method, such as analytical methods…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

X-Ray based computed tomography (CT) is a well-established technique for determining the three-dimensional structure of an object from its two-dimensional projections. In the past few decades, there have been significant advancements in the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dinesh Kumar , Dilworth Y. Parkinson , Jeffrey J. Donatelli

The advent of computed tomography significantly improves patient health regarding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning and verification. However, tomographic imaging escalates concomitant radiation doses to patients, inducing…

A radiograph visualizes the internal anatomy of a patient through the use of X-ray, which projects 3D information onto a 2D plane. Hence, radiograph analysis naturally requires physicians to relate the prior about 3D human anatomy to 2D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Cheng Peng , Haofu Liao , Gina Wong , Jiebo Luo , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Rama Chellappa