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Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) enables us to probe the microstructural arrangement of cardiomyocytes within the myocardium in vivo and non-invasively, which no other imaging modality allows. This innovative technology…

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Reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is important to mitigate radiation-induced risks. One option is to employ a well-trained model to compensate for incomplete information and map sparse-view measurements to the CT…

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Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used non-invasive medical imaging technique for disease diagnosis. The diagnostic accuracy is often affected by image resolution, which can be insufficient in practice. For medical CT images, the…

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Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging modality for medical diagnosis and treatment. In electroencephalography (EEG), CT imaging is necessary for co-registering with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and for creating more accurate…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Andreas D. Lauritzen , Xenophon Papademetris , Sergei Turovets , John A. Onofrey

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging requires accurate attenuation correction (AC) to account for photon loss due to tissue density variations. In PET/MR systems, computed tomography (CT), which offers a straightforward estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Weijie Chen , James Wang , Alan McMillan

Synthesized medical images have several important applications, e.g., as an intermedium in cross-modality image registration and as supplementary training samples to boost the generalization capability of a classifier. Especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zizhao Zhang , Lin Yang , Yefeng Zheng

Purpose: Radiotherapy presents unique challenges and clinical requirements for longitudinal tumor and organ-at-risk (OAR) prediction during treatment. The challenges include tumor inflammation/edema and radiation-induced changes in organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Donghoon Lee , Sadegh R Alam , Jue Jiang , Pengpeng Zhang , Saad Nadeem , Yu-Chi Hu

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Four-dimensional (4D) wide coverage computed tomography (CT) is an effective imaging modality for measuring the mechanical function of the myocardium. However, repeated CT measurement across several heartbeats is still a concern. A…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zhye Yin , Pengwei Wu , Ashish Manohar , Elliot R. McVeigh , Jed D. Pack

Computed tomography (CT) is one of the modalities for effective lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The features extracted from CT images are now used to quantify spatial and temporal variations in tumors. However,…

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The interplay between the beam delivery time structure and the patient motion makes 4D dose calculation (4DDC) important when treating moving tumors with intensity modulated proton therapy. 4DDC based on phase sorting of a 4DCT suffers from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Ivar Bengtsson , Erik Engwall , Albin Fredriksson , Lars Glimelius

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have recently achieved strong performance in 3D medical image synthesis. However, modalities like cine cardiac MRI (CMR), representing a temporally synchronized 3D volume across the cardiac cycle, add an…

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Recent studies suggest that 4DCT is unable to accurately measure respiratory-induced pancreatic tumor motion. In this work, we assessed the daily motion of pancreatic tumors treated with SBRT, and developed adaptive strategies to predict…

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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…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Hoyeon Lee , Jongha Lee , Hyeongseok Kim , Byungchul Cho , Seungryong Cho

Segmentation of lung tissue in computed tomography (CT) images is a precursor to most pulmonary image analysis applications. Semantic segmentation methods using deep learning have exhibited top-tier performance in recent years, however…

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Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods for the generation of synthetic computed tomography (sCT) have received significant research attention as an alternative to classical ones. We present here a systematic review of these methods by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Maria Francesca Spadea , Matteo Maspero , Paolo Zaffino , Joao Seco

Lung cancer has been one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide for years. With the emergence of deep learning, computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) models based on learning algorithms can accelerate the nodule screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xuan Zhao , Benjamin Hou

Joint image registration and segmentation has long been an active area of research in medical imaging. Here, we reformulate this problem in a deep learning setting using adversarial learning. We consider the case in which fixed and moving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-01 Mohamed S. Elmahdy , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Hessam Sokooti , Ivana Išgum , Marius Staring