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Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) is clinically desirable due to the reduced radiation to patients. However, the quality of LDCT images is often sub-optimal because of the inevitable strong quantum noise. Inspired by their unprecedent…

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Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for both diagnostic imaging and image guided interventions. Denoisers are openly used to improve the quality of LDCT. Deep learning (DL)-based denoisers have shown state-of-the-art…

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Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Zhicheng Zhang , Lequan Yu , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lower potential risks linked to radiation exposure while relying on advanced denoising algorithms to maintain diagnostic quality in reconstructed images. The reigning paradigm in LDCT denoising is based…

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Being low-level radiation exposure and less harmful to health, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been widely adopted in the early screening of lung cancer and COVID-19. LDCT images inevitably suffer from the degradation problem caused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kecheng Chen , Jiayu Sun , Jiang Shen , Jixiang Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Xuelin Pan , Dongsheng Wu , Yue Zhao , Miguel Bento , Yazhou Ren , Xiaorong Pu

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

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction techniques can reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining acceptable imaging quality. Deep learning is widely used in this problem, but the performance of testing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Kecheng Chen , Jie Liu , Renjie Wan , Victor Ho-Fun Lee , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Hong Yan , Haoliang Li

Image denoising is a prerequisite for downstream tasks in many fields. Low-dose and photon-counting computed tomography (CT) denoising can optimize diagnostic performance at minimized radiation dose. Supervised deep denoising methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Fenglei Fan , Weiwen Wu , Xiaodong Guo , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) offers reduced X-ray radiation exposure but at the cost of compromised image quality, characterized by increased noise and artifacts. Recently, transformer models emerged as a promising avenue to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Dayang Wang , Yongshun Xu , Shuo Han , Zhan Wu , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Hengyong Yu

Acquiring high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images requires administering high-dose radiotracers, which increases radiation exposure risks. Generating standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) has become a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Xiaolong Niu , Zanting Ye , Xu Han , Yanchao Huang , Hao Sun , Hubing Wu , Lijun Lu

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

Deep learning has been successfully applied to low-dose CT (LDCT) image denoising for reducing potential radiation risk. However, the widely reported supervised LDCT denoising networks require a training set of paired images, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yuhui Ruan , Qiao Yuan , Chuang Niu , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Ge Wang , Yueyang Teng

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is widely used to reduce radiation exposure to mitigate high exposure side effects, but often suffers from noise and artifacts that affect diagnostic accuracy. To tackle this issue, deep learning models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Taifour Yousra , Beghdadi Azeddine , Marie Luong , Zuheng Ming

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising is crucial for reduced radiation exposure while ensuring diagnostically acceptable image quality. Despite significant advancements driven by deep learning (DL) in recent years, existing DL-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhihao Chen , Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jun Zhao , Hongming Shan

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important topic in the field of radiology over the past decades. LDCT reduces ionizing radiation-induced patient health risks but it also results in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Wenjun Xia , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

The explosive rise of the use of Computer tomography (CT) imaging in medical practice has heightened public concern over the patient's associated radiation dose. However, reducing the radiation dose leads to increased noise and artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Reducing radiation doses benefits patients, however, the resultant low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images often suffer from clinically unacceptable noise and artifacts. While deep learning (DL) shows promise in LDCT reconstruction, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ziyuan Yang , Yingyu Chen , Zhiwen Wang , Hongming Shan , Yang Chen , Yi Zhang

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Xin Yi , Paul Babyn

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qiaoqiao Ding , Hui Ji , Yuhui Quan , Xiaoqun Zhang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) denoising is an important problem in CT research. Compared to the normal dose CT (NDCT), LDCT images are subjected to severe noise and artifacts. Recently in many studies, vision transformers have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Dayang Wang , Fenglei Fan , Zhan Wu , Rui Liu , Fei Wang , Hengyong Yu