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A key step in Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) workflows is the evaluation of the patient's anatomy at treatment time to ensure the accuracy of the delivery. To this end, Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (CBCT) is widely used being…

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We present an effective post-processing method to reduce the artifacts from sparsely reconstructed cone-beam CT (CBCT) images. The proposed method is based on the state-of-the-art, image-to-image generative models with a perceptual loss as…

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Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

Attenuation correction is an essential requirement of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction to allow for accurate quantification. However, attenuation correction is particularly challenging for PET-MRI as neither PET nor…

Computed tomography (CT) uses X-ray measurements taken from sensors around the body to generate tomographic images of the human body. Conventional reconstruction algorithms can be used if the X-ray data are adequately sampled and of high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ruiwen Xing , Thomas Humphries , Dong Si

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Chenyu You , Guang Li , Yi Zhang , Xiaoliu Zhang , Hongming Shan , Shenghong Ju , Zhen Zhao , Zhuiyang Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Michael W. Vannier , Punam K. Saha , Ge Wang

During spinal fusion surgery, screws are placed close to critical nerves suggesting the need for highly accurate screw placement. Verifying screw placement on high-quality tomographic imaging is essential. C-arm Cone-beam CT (CBCT) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Mareike Thies , Jan-Nico Zäch , Cong Gao , Russell Taylor , Nassir Navab , Andreas Maier , Mathias Unberath

Purpose: CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy requires daily images for accurate dose calculations. This study investigates the feasibility of applying a single convolutional network to facilitate CBCT-to-CT synthesis for head-and-neck, lung,…

To shorten the door-to-puncture time for better treating patients with acute ischemic stroke, it is highly desired to obtain quantitative cerebral perfusion images using C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) equipped in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Haotian Zhao , Ruifeng Chen , Jing Yan , Juan Feng , Jun Xiang , Yang Chen , Dong Liang , Yinsheng Li

The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning based method that can automatically generate segmentations on cone-beam CT (CBCT) for head and neck online adaptive radiation therapy (ART), where expert-drawn contours in planning CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao Liang , Howard Morgan , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

This paper presents a two-stage method for beam hardening artifact correction of dental cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT). The proposed artifact reduction method is designed to improve the quality of maxillofacial imaging, where soft…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-09 T. Bayaraa , C. M. Hyun , T. J. Jang , S. M. Lee , J. K. Seo

Cone Beam CT (CBCT) is an important imaging modality nowadays, however lower image quality of CBCT compared to more conventional Computed Tomography (CT) remains a limiting factor in CBCT applications. Deep learning reconstruction methods…

During the process of computed tomography (CT), metallic implants often cause disruptive artifacts in the reconstructed images, impeding accurate diagnosis. Several supervised deep learning-based approaches have been proposed for reducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Xuan Liu , Yaoqin Xie , Songhui Diao , Shan Tan , Xiaokun Liang

Computed tomography (CT) is critical for various clinical applications, e.g., radiotherapy treatment planning and also PET attenuation correction. However, CT exposes radiation during acquisition, which may cause side effects to patients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Dong Nie , Roger Trullo , Caroline Petitjean , Su Ruan , Dinggang Shen

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a critical 3D imaging technology in the medical field, while the high radiation exposure required for high-quality imaging raises significant concerns, particularly for vulnerable populations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Yiqun Lin , Jixiang Chen , Hualiang Wang , Jiewen Yang , Jiarong Guo , Yi Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

Reconstructing medical images from partial measurements is an important inverse problem in Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Existing solutions based on machine learning typically train a model to directly map…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Yang Song , Liyue Shen , Lei Xing , Stefano Ermon

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,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Cone Beam Computed Tomography(CBCT) is a now known method to conduct CT imaging. Especially, The Low Dose CT imaging is one of possible options to protect organs of patients when conducting CT imaging. Therefore Low Dose CT imaging can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Wooram Kang , Mayank Patwari