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With the advent of advances in self-supervised learning, paired clean-noisy data are no longer required in deep learning-based image denoising. However, existing blind denoising methods still require the assumption with regard to noise…

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Deep neural networks have been proved efficient for medical image denoising. Current training methods require both noisy and clean images. However, clean images cannot be acquired for many practical medical applications due to naturally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Dufan Wu , Kuang Gong , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

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

With the growing technology of photon-counting detectors (PCD), spectral CT is a widely concerned topic which has the potential of material differentiation. However, due to some non-ideal factors such as cross talk and pulse pile-up of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Ao Zheng , Hongkai Yang , Li Zhang , Yuxiang Xing

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Modeling and synthesizing real sRGB noise is crucial for various low-level vision tasks, such as building datasets for training image denoising systems. The distribution of real sRGB noise is highly complex and affected by a multitude of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Young Joo Han , Ha-Jin Yu

The paper addresses the problem of acquiring high-quality photographs with handheld smartphone cameras in low-light imaging conditions. We propose an approach based on capturing pairs of short and long exposure images in rapid succession…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Jiri Matas , Simo Särkkä , Janne Heikkilä

Two difficulties here make low-light image enhancement a challenging task; firstly, it needs to consider not only luminance restoration but also image contrast, image denoising and color distortion issues simultaneously. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wenchao Li , Bangshu Xiong , Qiaofeng Ou , Xiaoyun Long , Jinhao Zhu , Jiabao Chen , Shuyuan Wen

Image denoising is of great importance for medical imaging system, since it can improve image quality for disease diagnosis and downstream image analyses. In a variety of applications, dynamic imaging techniques are utilized to capture the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Junshen Xu , Elfar Adalsteinsson

During raw-data acquisition in CT imaging, diverse factors can degrade the collected sinograms, with undersampling and noise leading to severe artifacts and noise in reconstructed images and compromising diagnostic accuracy. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingyu Ai , Shaoyu Wang , Zhiyuan Jia , Ao Xu , Hongming Shan , Jianhua Ma , Qiegen Liu

Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include adding more layers or repeating a modularized clone model in a sequence. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

Supervised neural networks are known to achieve excellent results in various image restoration tasks. However, such training requires datasets composed of pairs of corrupted images and their corresponding ground truth targets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Gregory Vaksman , Michael Elad

Given the potential X-ray radiation risk to the patient, low-dose CT has attracted a considerable interest in the medical imaging field. The current main stream low-dose CT methods include vendor-specific sinogram domain filtration and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Feng Lin , Yang Chen , Peixi Liao , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in CT imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Image denoising of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important problem for clinical diagnosis with reduced radiation exposure. Previous methods are mostly trained with pairs of synthetic or misaligned LDCT and normal-dose CT (NDCT)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Junhao Long , Fengwei Yang , Juncheng Yan , Baoping Zhang , Chao Jin , Jian Yang , Changliang Zou , Jun Xu

Reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is important to mitigate radiation-induced risks. One option is to employ a well-trained model to compensate for incomplete information and map sparse-view measurements to the CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Xiaoyue Li , Kai Shang , Gaoang Wang , Mark D. Butala

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising algorithm exploiting features from both spatial as well as transformed domain. We implement intensity-invariance based improved grouping for collaborative support-agnostic sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Muzammil Behzad

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is pervasive in both the research and clinical practice of Ophthalmology. However, OCT images are strongly corrupted by noise, limiting their interpretation. Current OCT denoisers leverage assumptions on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Guillaume Gisbert , Neel Dey , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig