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Low-dose computed tomography (CT) plays a significant role in reducing the radiation risk in clinical applications. However, lowering the radiation dose will significantly degrade the image quality. With the rapid development and wide…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

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Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…

Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

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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,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

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

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

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…

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Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy for image-guided treatment, improving setup accuracy, adaptive planning, and motion management. However, slow gantry rotation limits performance by introducing motion artifacts,…

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Diffusion models have achieved great success in image generation tasks. However, the lengthy denoising process and complex neural networks hinder their low-latency applications in real-world scenarios. Quantization can effectively reduce…

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Patients undergoing a mechanical thrombectomy procedure usually have a multi-detector CT (MDCT) scan before and after the intervention. The image quality of the flat panel detector CT (FDCT) present in the intervention room is generally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Hélène Corbaz , Anh Nguyen , Victor Schulze-Zachau , Paul Friedrich , Alicia Durrer , Florentin Bieder , Philippe C. Cattin , Marios N Psychogios

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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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based synthetic computed tomography (sCT) simplifies radiation therapy treatment planning by eliminating the need for CT simulation and error-prone image registration, ultimately reducing patient radiation…

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Recent advancements in diffusion models have demonstrated significant success in unsupervised anomaly segmentation. For anomaly segmentation, these models are first trained on normal data; then, an anomalous image is noised to an…

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Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

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 CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qiaoqiao Ding , Hui Ji , Yuhui Quan , Xiaoqun Zhang

Diffusion models produce high-quality synthetic data but suffer from slow inference. We propose 3D Variable-Step Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (VS-DDPM) a framework engineered to maintain generative quality while accelerating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikoo Moradi , Gijs Luijten , Behrus Hinrichs-Puladi , Jens Kleesiek , Victor Alves , Jan Egger , André Ferreira

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is desirable in many clinical applications to reduce X-ray radiation dose to patients. Inspired by deep learning (DL), a recent promising direction of model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) methods for LDCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Qiaoqiao Ding , Yuesong Nan , Hao Gao , Hui Ji

Compressed Sensing (CS) significantly speeds up Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) processing and achieves accurate MRI reconstruction from under-sampled k-space data. According to the current research, there are still several problems with…

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