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The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

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

Deep learning methods have become the state of the art for undersampled MR reconstruction. Particularly for cases where it is infeasible or impossible for ground truth, fully sampled data to be acquired, self-supervised machine learning…

X-ray computed tomography (CT) reveals the materials' internal structures non-destructively from a tilt series of projected images. Filtered back projection (FBP) is a widely-adopted reconstruction algorithm in CT owing to its small…

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical image processing, essential for segmenting organs or lesions such as tumors. In this study we aim to improve automated segmentation in CBCTs through multi-task learning. To evaluate effects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian Ernst Tschuchnig , Julia Coste-Marin , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

We propose a direct reconstruction algorithm for Computed Tomography, based on a local fusion of a few preliminary image estimates by means of a non-linear fusion rule. One such rule is based on a signal denoising technique which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Medical imaging is an invaluable resource in medicine as it enables to peer inside the human body and provides scientists and physicians with a wealth of information indispensable for understanding, modelling, diagnosis, and treatment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hanene Ben Yedder , Ben Cardoen , Ghassan Hamarneh

In the past decades, Computed Tomography (CT) has established itself as one of the most important imaging techniques in medicine. Today, the applicability of CT is only limited by the deposited radiation dose, reduction of which manifests…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Martin Zach , Erich Kobler , Thomas Pock

In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable empirical success for image reconstruction. This has catalyzed an ongoing quest for precise characterization of correctness and reliability of data-driven methods in critical use-cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Subhadip Mukherjee , Andreas Hauptmann , Ozan Öktem , Marcelo Pereyra , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Computed Tomography (CT) is an imaging technique where information about an object are collected at different angles (called projections or scans). Then the cross-sectional image showing the internal structure of the slice is produced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Zhengchun Liu , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

Industrial X-ray cone-beam CT (XCT) scanners are widely used for scientific imaging and non-destructive characterization. Industrial CBCT scanners use large detectors containing millions of pixels and the subsequent 3D reconstructions can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Aniket Pramanik , Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan , Obaidullah Rahman , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in machine learning-based models and techniques for low-dose X-ray CT (LDCT) imaging tasks. The methods can typically be categorized into supervised learning methods and unsupervised or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhipeng Li , Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems. While computed tomography (CT) is theoretically a linear inverse problem, it poses many practical challenges. These include correlated noise, artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

We present a method for selecting valuable projections in computed tomography (CT) scans to enhance image reconstruction and diagnosis. The approach integrates two important factors, projection-based detectability and data completeness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Linda-Sophie Schneider , Mareike Thies , Christopher Syben , Richard Schielein , Mathias Unberath , Andreas Maier