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Abstract Objective. Cone-beam computed tomography is becoming more and more popular in applications such as 3D dental imaging. Iterative methods compared to the standard Feldkamp algorithm have shown improvements in image quality of…

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Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

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Many functional and structural neuroimaging studies call for accurate morphometric segmentation of different brain structures starting from image intensity values of MRI scans. Current automatic (multi-) atlas-based segmentation strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Dennis Bontempi , Sergio Benini , Alberto Signoroni , Michele Svanera , Lars Muckli

CBCT images suffer from acute shading artifacts primarily due to scatter. Numerous image-domain correction algorithms have been proposed in the literature that use patient-specific planning CT images to estimate shading contributions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Awais Ashfaq , Jonas Adler

Computed tomography (CT) imaging could be very practical for diagnosing various diseases. However, the nature of the CT images is even more diverse since the resolution and number of the slices of a CT scan are determined by the machine and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chi-Han Tsai , Guan-Lin Chen , Sin-Di Ma , Shen-Chieh Tai

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is routinely acquired during radiotherapy for patient setup, but its quantitative reliability is degraded by scatter, noise, and reconstruction artifacts, limiting Hounsfield Unit (HU) accuracy. We propose EPC-3D-Diff, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Haytham Al Ewaidat , Khaled Alawneh , Ahmad Qendel , Alessandro Perelli

In Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) imaging systems, the scattering phenomenon has a significant impact on the reconstructed image and is a long-lasting research topic on CBCT. In this paper, we propose a simple, novel and fast approach for mitigating…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Shi-peng Xie , Rui-ju Yan

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a widely used and cost-effective diagnostic tool for coronary artery disease. However, the lengthy scanning time in this imaging procedure can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zezhang Yang , Zitong Yu , Nuri Choi , Abhinav K. Jha

Computed Tomography (CT) is an essential non-destructive three dimensional imaging modality used in medicine, security screening, and inspection of manufactured components. Typical CT data acquisition entails the collection of a thousand or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Kyle M. Champley , Michael B. Zellner , Joseph W. Tringe , Harry E. Martz

Ischemic stroke lesion segmentation from Computed Tomography Perfusion (CTP) images is important for accurate diagnosis of stroke in acute care units. However, it is challenged by low image contrast and resolution of the perfusion parameter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Qiang Dong , Mei Cui , Ning Huang , Shaoting Zhang

A novel method, utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), is proposed to reconstruct hyperspectral cubes from computed tomography imaging spectrometer (CTIS) images. Current reconstruction algorithms are usually subject to long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Wei-Chih Huang , Mads Svanborg Peters , Mads Juul Ahlebaek , Mads Toudal Frandsen , René Lynge Eriksen , Bjarke Jørgensen

Image guidance for minimally invasive interventions is usually performed by acquiring fluoroscopic images using a C-arm system. However, the projective data provide only limited information about the spatial structure and position of…

Industrial cone-beam X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans of additively manufactured components produce a 3D reconstruction from projection measurements acquired at multiple predetermined rotation angles of the component about a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Jingsong Lin , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Gregery Buzzard , Amir Koushyar Ziabari , Charles Bouman

The problem of Cortical Surface Reconstruction from magnetic resonance imaging has been traditionally addressed using lengthy pipelines of image processing techniques like FreeSurfer, CAT, or CIVET. These frameworks require very long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Léo Lebrat , Darren Fu , Pierrick Bourgeat , Jurgen Fripp , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Dynamic computed tomography (CT) reconstruction faces significant challenges in addressing motion artifacts, particularly for nonperiodic rapid movements such as cardiac imaging with fast heart rates. Traditional methods struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Muge Du , Zhuozhao Zheng , Wenying Wang , Guotao Quan , Wuliang Shi , Le Shen , Li Zhang , Liang Li , Yinong Liu , Yuxiang Xing

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems in computed tomography (CT). In certain applications, such as neutron CT, it can be expensive to collect large amounts of measurements even for a single scan,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Timofey Efimov , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Inspired by their success in solving challenging inverse problems in computer vision, implicit neural representations (INRs) have been recently proposed for reconstruction in low-dose/sparse-view X-ray computed tomography (CT). An INR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

Existing methods to reconstruct vascular structures from a computed tomography (CT) angiogram rely on injection of intravenous contrast to enhance the radio-density within the vessel lumen. However, pathological changes can be present in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Anirudh Chandrashekar , Ashok Handa , Natesh Shivakumar , Pierfrancesco Lapolla , Vicente Grau , Regent Lee

The object of research in this study is quality of CBV perfusion map, considering detection of perfusion ROI as a key component in processing of dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance images of a human head. CBV map is generally…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Svitlana Alkhimova

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction plays a crucial role in industrial nondestructive testing and medical diagnosis. Sparse view CT reconstruction aims to reconstruct high-quality CT images while only using a small number of…

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