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Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Low-dose X-ray CT technology is one of important directions of current research and development of medical imaging equipment. A fast algorithm of blockwise sinogram filtering is presented for realtime low-dose CT imaging. A nonstationary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Fengling Wang , Bowen Lin , Shujun Fu , Shiling Xie , Zhigang Zhao , Yuliang Li

Ultra low radiation dose in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important clinical objective in order to minimize the risk of carcinogenesis. Compressed Sensing (CS) enables significant reductions in radiation dose to be achieved by…

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Introduction. Noisy measurements frequently cause noisy and inaccurate images in impedance imaging. No post-processing technique exists to calculate the propagation of measurement noise and use this to suppress noise in the image.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Kai Mason , Florencia Maurino-Alperovich , David Holder , Kirill Aristovich

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Accurate 3D representations of cardiac structures allow quantitative analysis of anatomy and function. In this work, we propose a method for reconstructing complete 3D cardiac shapes from segmentations of sparse planes in CT angiography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Gino E. Jansen , Carolina Brás , R. Nils Planken , Mark J. Schuuring , Berto J. Bouma , Ivana Išgum

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) paradigm is becoming mainstream in multiple clinical trials and healthcare procedures. Cardiovascular diseases monitoring, usually involving electrocardiogram (ECG) traces analysis, is one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Matteo Antonio Scrugli , Daniela Loi , Luigi Raffo , Paolo Meloni

Computed tomography (CT) has been used worldwide as a non-invasive test to assist in diagnosis. However, the ionizing nature of X-ray exposure raises concerns about potential health risks such as cancer. The desire for lower radiation doses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Yucheng Lu , Zhixin Xu , Moon Hyung Choi , Jimin Kim , Seung-Won Jung

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is used to recover the true surfaces of fluid channels and fed to simulation tool (ANSYS) to create accurate cyber environment. The simulation tool also receives CT-assisted multiphase fluid profiles…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-06 Vaishali Sharma , Arpit Kumar , Snehlata Shakya , Mayank Goswami

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Hisaichi Shibata , Shouhei Hanaoka , Yukihiro Nomura , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Naoto Hayashi , Osamu Abe

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has emerged as a major imaging modality for the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. High temporal resolution is essential to ensure diagnostic accuracy. Limited-angle data acquisition can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Shuo Han , Yongshun Xu , Dayang Wang , Bahareh Morovati , Li Zhou , Jonathan S. Maltz , Ge Wang , Hengyong Yu

Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Runyi Li

The generalization of deep learning-based low-dose computed tomography (CT) reconstruction models to doses unseen in the training data is important and remains challenging. Previous efforts heavily rely on paired data to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Qi Gao , Zhihao Chen , Dong Zeng , Junping Zhang , Jianhua Ma , Hongming Shan

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…

The recent developments in wearable devices and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) allow real-time monitoring and recording of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, continuous monitoring of ECG signals is challenging in low-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Berken Utku Demirel , Islam Abdelsalam Bayoumy , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

While micro-CT systems are instrumental in preclinical research, clinical micro-CT imaging has long been desired with cochlear implantation as a primary example. The structural details of the cochlear implant and the temporal bone require a…

Cardiac segmentation of atriums, ventricles, and myocardium in computed tomography (CT) images is an important first-line task for presymptomatic cardiovascular disease diagnosis. In several recent studies, deep learning models have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Sanguk Park , Minyoung Chung