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Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a valuable imaging method in dental diagnostics that provides information not available in traditional 2D imaging. However, interpretation of CBCT images is a time-consuming process that requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Adel Zakirov , Matvey Ezhov , Maxim Gusarev , Vladimir Alexandrovsky , Evgeny Shumilov

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used in dentistry for diagnostics and treatment planning. CBCT Imaging has a long acquisition time and consequently, the patient is likely to move. This motion causes significant artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Abdul Salam Rasmi Asraf Ali , Andrea Fusiello , Claudio Landi , Cristina Sarti , Anneke Annassia Putri Siswadi

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Due to the constraints of the imaging device and high cost in operation time, computer tomography (CT) scans are usually acquired with low intra-slice resolution. Improving the intra-slice resolution is beneficial to the disease diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Chaowei Fang , Liang Wang , Dingwen Zhang , Jun Xu , Yixuan Yuan , Junwei Han

With the increasing popularity of PET-MR scanners in clinical applications, synthesis of CT images from MR has been an important research topic. Accurate PET image reconstruction requires attenuation correction, which is based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Snehashis Roy , John A. Butman , Dzung L. Pham

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy for image-guided treatment, improving setup accuracy, adaptive planning, and motion management. However, slow gantry rotation limits performance by introducing motion artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuan Gao , Shaoyan Pan , Mingzhe Hu , Huiqiao Xie , Jill Remick , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Zhen Tian , Xiaofeng Yang

Cone beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used for patient setup in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). Radiation dose from CBCT scans has become a clinical concern. The purposes of this study are 1) to commission a GPU-based Monte Carlo (MC)…

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important imaging technology widely used in medical scenarios, such as diagnosis and preoperative planning. Using fewer projection views to reconstruct CT, also known as sparse-view reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Yiqun Lin , Jiewen Yang , Hualiang Wang , Xinpeng Ding , Wei Zhao , Xiaomeng Li

Data scarcity in medical imaging poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Diffusion models, a recent generative modeling technique, offer a potential solution by generating synthetic and realistic data. However, questions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Abdullah al Nomaan Nafi , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Md Mahabub Uz Zaman , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Purpose: Medical imaging has become increasingly important in diagnosing and treating oncological patients, particularly in radiotherapy. Recent advances in synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation have increased interest in public…

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Inspired by the success of deep learning applications on restoration of low-dose and sparse CT images, we propose a novel method to reconstruct high-quality 4D cone-beam CT (4DCBCT) images from sparse datasets. Our approach combines the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Joel Beaudry , Pedro L. Esquinas

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used in image-guided radiotherapy. Reconstructing CBCTs from limited-angle acquisitions (LA-CBCT) is highly desired for improved imaging efficiency, dose reduction, and better mechanical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jiacheng Xie , Hua-Chieh Shao , Yunxiang Li , You Zhang

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

Unsupervised image translation using adversarial learning has been attracting attention to improve the image quality of medical images. However, adversarial training based on the global evaluation values of discriminators does not provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Takumi Hase , Megumi Nakao , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Tetsuya Matsuda

This paper strives to generate a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image from a magnetic resonance (MR) image. The synthetic CT image is valuable for radiotherapy planning when only an MR image is available. Recent approaches have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Guoyan Zheng , Cees Snoek

Pretraining CNN models (i.e., UNet) through self-supervision has become a powerful approach to facilitate medical image segmentation under low annotation regimes. Recent contrastive learning methods encourage similar global representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengwei Ren , Kaize Ding , Guido Gerig , Yalin Wang

Diffusion models have significant impact on wide range of generative tasks, especially on image inpainting and restoration. Although the improvements on aiming for decreasing number of function evaluations (NFE), the iterative results are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Mahmut S. Gokmen , Jie Zhang , Ge Wang , Jin Chen , Cody Bumgardner

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has emerged as a major imaging modality for the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. High temporal resolution is essential to ensure diagnostic accuracy. Limited-angle data acquisition can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Shuo Han , Yongshun Xu , Dayang Wang , Bahareh Morovati , Li Zhou , Jonathan S. Maltz , Ge Wang , Hengyong Yu

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader