Related papers: RSTAR4D: Rotational Streak Artifact Reduction in 4…
Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…
In Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging (BCDI), Phase Retrieval of highly strained crystals is often challenging with standard iterative algorithms. This computational obstacle limits the potential of the technique as it precludes the…
This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…
In radiation therapy (RT), the reliance on pre-treatment computed tomography (CT) images encounter challenges due to anatomical changes, necessitating adaptive planning. Daily cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging, pivotal for therapy adjustment,…
Segmentation of the airway tree from chest computed tomography (CT) images is critical for quantitative assessment of airway diseases including bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, obtaining an accurate…
Objective: There exist several X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning strategies to reduce a radiation dose, such as (1) sparse-view CT, (2) low-dose CT, and (3) region-of-interest (ROI) CT (called interior tomography). To further reduce…
Computed Tomography (CT) with its remarkable capability for three-dimensional imaging from multiple projections, enjoys a broad range of applications in clinical diagnosis, scientific observation, and industrial detection. Neural Adaptive…
This paper presents a novel approach 4DRecons that takes a single camera RGB-D sequence of a dynamic subject as input and outputs a complete textured deforming 3D model over time. 4DRecons encodes the output as a 4D neural implicit surface…
Recently, a number of approaches to low-dose computed tomography (CT) have been developed and deployed in commercialized CT scanners. Tube current reduction is perhaps the most actively explored technology with advanced image reconstruction…
Recently, spectral CT has been drawing a lot of attention in a variety of clinical applications primarily due to its capability of providing quantitative information about material properties. The quantitative integrity of the reconstructed…
While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…
Ultrasound imaging (US) often suffers from distinct image artifacts from various sources. Classic approaches for solving these problems are usually model-based iterative approaches that have been developed specifically for each type of…
Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…
In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based algorithm for solving ill-posed inverse problems. Regularized iterative algorithms have emerged as the standard approach to ill-posed inverse problems in the…
This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…
Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…
In recent years, much research has been conducted on image super-resolution (SR). To the best of our knowledge, however, few SR methods were concerned with compressed images. The SR of compressed images is a challenging task due to the…
Thoracic Computed Tomography (CT) scans offer detailed insights into the intricate branching network of the airway tree, which is essential for understanding various respiratory diseases. Airway bifurcations, where airway branches split,…
Due to its wide field of view, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is plagued by large amounts of scatter, where attenuated photons hit the detector, and corrupt the linear models used for reconstruction. Given that one can generate a good…
This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as…