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Computed tomography (CT) is one of the modalities for effective lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The features extracted from CT images are now used to quantify spatial and temporal variations in tumors. However,…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a leading architecture for text-to-image synthesis, producing high-quality and photorealistic images. However, the quadratic scaling properties of the attention in DiTs hinder image generation…

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Computed tomography (CT) serves as an effective tool for lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, providing a rich source of features to quantify temporal and spatial tumor changes. Nonetheless, the diversity of CT…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but also introduces substantial noise and structural degradation, making it difficult to suppress noise without erasing subtle anatomical details. In this paper, we present…

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Computed Tomography (CT) imposes risk on the patients due to its inherent X-ray radiation, stimulating the development of low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging methods. Lowering the radiation dose reduces the health risks but leads to noisier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Elvira Zainulina , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Dmitry V. Dylov

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

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Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

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With the great success of diffusion models in image generation, diffusion-based image compression is attracting increasing interests. However, due to the random noise introduced in the diffusion learning, they usually produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zhenyu Du , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Yiyang Li , Hui Yuan , Mao Ye

In this work, we present a novel self-supervised method for Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. Reducing the radiation dose to patients during a CT scan is a crucial challenge since the quality of the reconstruction highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Hang Xu , Alessandro Perelli

Since 2016, deep learning (DL) has advanced tomographic imaging with remarkable successes, especially in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging. Despite being driven by big data, the LDCT denoising and pure end-to-end reconstruction…

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Low-count positron emission tomography (LCPET) imaging can reduce patients' exposure to radiation but often suffers from increased image noise and reduced lesion detectability, necessitating effective denoising techniques. Diffusion models…

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Diffusion-based methods demonstrate significant potential for remote sensing image super-resolution at large scaling factors, particularly in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) where high-resolution reference images provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Luo , Runmin Dong , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Jiyao Zhao , Fan Wei , Haohuan Fu

Due to the potential risk of inducing cancers, radiation dose of X-ray CT should be reduced for routine patient scanning. However, in low-dose X-ray CT, severe artifacts usually occur due to photon starvation, beamhardening, etc, which…

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Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

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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…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become the technology of choice for diagnostic medical imaging, given its lower radiation dose compared to standard CT, despite increasing image noise and potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. To…

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Image-to-image translation has been revolutionized with GAN-based methods. However, existing methods lack the ability to preserve the identity of the source domain. As a result, synthesized images can often over-adapt to the reference…

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Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

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