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In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but often degrades image quality, potentially compromising diagnostic accuracy. Existing deep learning-based denoising methods focus primarily on pixel-level mappings,…

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Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is widely applied for the diagnosis of coronary artery diseases. Low-dose (LD) SPECT aims to minimize radiation exposure but leads to increased image noise. Limited-view (LV) SPECT, such as…

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Chest radiographs are the most commonly performed radiological examinations for lesion detection. Recent advances in deep learning have led to encouraging results in various thoracic disease detection tasks. Particularly, the architecture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Qing Xu , Wenting Duan

Limited-view computed tomography (CT) presents significant potential for reducing radiation exposure and expediting the scanning process. While deep learning (DL) methods have exhibited promising results in mitigating streaking artifacts…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Changyu Chen , Li Zhang , Yuxiang Xing , Zhiqiang Chen

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is critical for minimizing radiation exposure, but it often leads to increased noise and reduced image quality. Traditional denoising methods, such as iterative optimization or supervised learning, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Debopom Sutradhar , Ripon Kumar Debnath , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Yan Zhang , Reem E. Mohamed , Sami Azam

Accurate segmentation is a crucial step in medical image analysis and applying supervised machine learning to segment the organs or lesions has been substantiated effective. However, it is costly to perform data annotation that provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yunxiang Li , Jingxiong Li , Ruilong Dan , Shuai Wang , Kai Jin , Guodong Zeng , Jun Wang , Xiangji Pan , Qianni Zhang , Huiyu Zhou , Qun Jin , Li Wang , Yaqi Wang

In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. Considering the correlation between different MR modalities, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Stéphane Canu

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhiwen Yang , Haowei Chen , Ziniu Qian , Yang Zhou , Hui Zhang , Dan Zhao , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, and early detection is crucial for reducing its mortality rate and improving quality of life. Dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) scanners offer better image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Wenjun Xia , Hsin Wu Tseng , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Srinivasan Vedantham , Ge Wang

Existing multi-scale solutions lead to a risk of just increasing the receptive field sizes while neglecting small receptive fields. Thus, it is a challenging problem to effectively construct adaptive neural networks for recognizing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Zhiquan Feng , Tianyang Xu , Cong Hu

Multi-scale deformable attention (MSDeformAttn) has emerged as a key mechanism in various vision tasks, demonstrating explicit superiority attributed to multi-scale grid-sampling. However, this newly introduced operator incurs irregular…

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Multi-modal medical image fusion is essential for the precise clinical diagnosis and surgical navigation since it can merge the complementary information in multi-modalities into a single image. The quality of the fused image depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xianming Gu , Lihui Wang , Zeyu Deng , Ying Cao , Xingyu Huang , Yue-min Zhu

To reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted much attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will lead to significant deterioration of the image quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Peixi Liao , Ke Li , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Labeling medical images depends on professional knowledge, making it difficult to acquire large amount of annotated medical images with high quality in a short time. Thus, making good use of limited labeled samples in a small dataset to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peng Jiang , Juan Liu , Lang Wang , Zhihui Ynag , Hongyu Dong , Jing Feng

Recently, Transformer-based architecture has been introduced into single image deraining task due to its advantage in modeling non-local information. However, existing approaches tend to integrate global features based on a dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhentao Fan , Hongming Chen , Yufeng Li

Domain adaptation addresses the challenge of model performance degradation caused by domain gaps. In the typical setup for unsupervised domain adaptation, labeled data from a source domain and unlabeled data from a target domain are used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Siqi Yin , Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

Deep learning based PET image reconstruction methods have achieved promising results recently. However, most of these methods follow a supervised learning paradigm, which rely heavily on the availability of high-quality training labels. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Rui Hu , Yunmei Chen , Kyungsang Kim , Marcio Aloisio Bezerra Cavalcanti Rockenbach , Quanzheng Li , Huafeng Liu

In this paper, we present a Hybrid Spectral Denoising Transformer (HSDT) for hyperspectral image denoising. Challenges in adapting transformer for HSI arise from the capabilities to tackle existing limitations of CNN-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zeqiang Lai , Chenggang Yan , Ying Fu