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As one of the most commonly ordered imaging tests, computed tomography (CT) scan comes with inevitable radiation exposure that increases the cancer risk to patients. However, CT image quality is directly related to radiation dose, thus it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Xiaowe Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Jinglan Liu , Yukun Ding , Tianchen Wang , Hailong Qiu , Haiyun Yuan , Jian Zhuang , Wen Xie , Yuhao Dong , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Yiyu Shi

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) typically requires hundreds of X-ray projections, which raises concerns about radiation exposure. While sparse-view reconstruction reduces the exposure by using fewer projections, it struggles to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Meng-Xun Li , Jin-Gang Yu , Yuan Gao , Cui Huang , Gui-Song Xia

With the development of computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, it is possible to acquire multi-energy data by spectral CT. Being different from conventional CT, the X-ray energy spectrum of spectral CT is cutting into several narrow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuanwei He , Li Zeng , Qiong Xu , Zhe Wang , Haijun Yu , Zhaoqiang Shen , Zhaojun Yang , Rifeng Zhou

Most of the existing denoising algorithms are developed for grayscale images, while it is not a trivial work to extend them for color image denoising because the noise statistics in R, G, B channels can be very different for real noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jun Xu , Lei Zhang , David Zhang , Xiangchu Feng

Ultra-low-field (ULF, <0.1 T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems offer advantages in cost, portability, and accessibility, but their current utility is still limited by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Deep learning (DL)-based…

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

Filtering multi-dimensional images such as color images, color videos, multispectral images and magnetic resonance images is challenging in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency. Leveraging the nonlocal self-similarity (NLSS)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Zhaoming Kong , Xiaowei Yang , Lifang He

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has been positively affected by deep learning. A key challenge remains: to improve generalisation to distribution shifts between the training and testing data. Most approaches aim to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Yuyang Xue , Chen Qin , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Defocus blur is a physical consequence of the optical sensors used in most cameras. Although it can be used as a photographic style, it is commonly viewed as an image degradation modeled as the convolution of a sharp image with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ali Karaali , Claudio Rosito Jung

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Sutanu Bera , Avisek Lahiri , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Spectral CT is an emerging modality that uses a data acquisition scheme with varied spectral responses to provide enhanced material discrimination in addition to the structural information of conventional CT. Existing clinical and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Matthew Tivnan , Wenying Wang , Steven Tilley , Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen , J. Webster Stayman

Image denoising is a classical problem in low level computer vision. Model-based optimization methods and deep learning approaches have been the two main strategies for solving the problem. Model-based optimization methods are flexible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chang Liu , Zhaowei Shang , Anyong Qin

This paper proposes a deep learning-based denoising method for noisy low-dose computerized tomography (CT) images in the absence of paired training data. The proposed method uses a fidelity-embedded generative adversarial network (GAN) to…

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Medical image denoising is essential for improving image quality while minimizing the exposure of sensitive information, particularly when working with large-scale clinical datasets. This study explores distributed deep learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sulaimon Oyeniyi Adebayo , Ayaz H. Khan

The acquisition conditions for low-dose and high-dose CT images are usually different, so that the shifts in the CT numbers often occur. Accordingly, unsupervised deep learning-based approaches, which learn the target image distribution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Chanyong Jung , Joonhyung Lee , Sunkyoung You , Jong Chul Ye

Conventional Computed Tomography (CT) methods require large numbers of noise-free projections for accurate density reconstructions, limiting their applicability to the more complex class of Cone Beam Geometry CT (CBCT) reconstruction.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Samuele Papa , David M. Knigge , Riccardo Valperga , Nikita Moriakov , Miltos Kofinas , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Low-dose CT has been a key diagnostic imaging modality to reduce the potential risk of radiation overdose to patient health. Despite recent advances, CNN-based approaches typically apply filters in a spatially invariant way and adopt…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Lu Xu , Yuwei Zhang , Ying Liu , Daoye Wang , Mu Zhou , Jimmy Ren , Jingwei Wei , Zhaoxiang Ye

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are susceptible to various noise factors leading to the loss of information, and the noise restricts the subsequent HSIs object detection and classification tasks. In recent years, learning-based methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Noise is an inherent issue of low-light image capture, one which is exacerbated on mobile devices due to their narrow apertures and small sensors. One strategy for mitigating noise in a low-light situation is to increase the shutter time of…

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