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We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

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

In order to reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted more and more attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will significantly degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Like other experimental techniques, X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy is subject to various kinds of noise. Random and correlated fluctuations and heterogeneities can be present in a two-time correlation function and obscure the…

Computed tomography (CT) is routinely used for three-dimensional non-invasive imaging. Numerous data-driven image denoising algorithms were proposed to restore image quality in low-dose acquisitions. However, considerably less research…

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Yoseob Han , Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

Image denoising is always a challenging task in the field of computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we have proposed an encoder-decoder model with direct attention, which is capable of denoising and reconstruct highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Mohammad Abu Yousuf , Rajib Rana

The resurgence of deep neural networks has created an alternative pathway for low-dose computed tomography denoising by learning a nonlinear transformation function between low-dose CT (LDCT) and normal-dose CT (NDCT) image pairs. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are frequently corrupted by noise, such as baseline wander (BW), muscle artifacts (MA), and electrode motion (EM), which significantly degrade their diagnostic utility. To address this issue, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Sainan xiao , Wangdong Yang , Buwen Cao , Jintao Wu

Deep neural networks have received considerable attention in clinical imaging, particularly with respect to the reduction of radiation risk. Lowering the radiation dose by reducing the photon flux inevitably results in the degradation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Khalid L. Alsamadony , Ertugrul U. Yildirim , Guenther Glatz , Umair bin Waheed , Sherif M. Hanafy

This work tackles the issue of noise removal from images, focusing on the well-known DCT image denoising algorithm. The latter, stemming from signal processing, has been well studied over the years. Though very simple, it is still used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Sébastien Herbreteau , Charles Kervrann

CT protocol design and quality control would benefit from automated tools to estimate the quality of generated CT images. These tools could be used to identify erroneous CT acquisitions or refine protocols to achieve certain signal to noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Sohini Roychowdhury , Nathan Hollraft , Adam Alessio

The quality of images captured by wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is key for doctors to diagnose diseases of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. However, there exist many low-quality endoscopic images due to the limited illumination and complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Shaofeng Zou , Mingzhu Long , Xuyang Wang , Xiang Xie , Guolin Li , Zhihua Wang

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

Restoring high-quality CT images from low dose CT counterparts is an ill-posed, nonlinear problem to which Deep Learning approaches have been giving superior solutions compared to classical model-based approaches. In this article, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Jan Sijbers

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

Conventional image denoising models often inadvertently learn spurious correlations between environmental factors and noise patterns. Moreover, due to high-frequency ambiguity, they struggle to reliably distinguish subtle textures from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kuai Jiang , Zhaoyan Ding , Guijuan Zhang , Dianjie Lu , Zhuoran Zheng

Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Reconstructing images using Computed Tomography (CT) in an industrial context leads to specific challenges that differ from those encountered in other areas, such as clinical CT. Indeed, non-destructive testing with industrial CT will often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Emilien Valat , Andreas Hauptmann , Ozan Öktem

In contrast to non-medical image denoising, where enhancing image clarity is the primary goal, medical image denoising warrants preservation of crucial features without introduction of new artifacts. However, many denoising methods that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Md. Touhidul Islam , Md. Abtahi M. Chowdhury , Sumaiya Salekin , Aye T. Maung , Akil A. Taki , Hafiz Imtiaz