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High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…

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We introduce LuminanceL1Loss, a novel loss function designed to enhance the performance of image restoration tasks. We demonstrate its superiority over MSE when applied to the Retinexformer, BUIFD and DnCNN architectures. Our proposed…

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