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Computed Tomography (CT) is pivotal in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. Sparse-view CT, offering reduced ionizing radiation, faces challenges due to its under-sampled nature, leading to ill-posed reconstruction problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiayang Shi , Junyi Zhu , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg , Matthew B. Blaschko

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) enables non-invasive investigation of tissue microstructure. The Standard Model (SM) of white matter aims to disentangle dMRI signal contributions from intra- and extra-axonal water compartments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Tom Hendriks , Gerrit Arends , Edwin Versteeg , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland , Chantal M. W. Tax

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Recently, generative diffusion priors have made huge strides as inverse problem solvers, including the ability to be adapted for inference on out-of-distribution data. Concurrently, implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Metal artefacts in CT images may disrupt image quality and interfere with diagnosis. Recently many deep-learning-based CT metal artefact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed. Current deep MAR methods may be troubled with domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Muge Du , Kaichao Liang , Yinong Liu , Yuxiang Xing

Deep neural network based methods have achieved promising results for CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), most of which use many synthesized paired images for training. As synthesized metal artifacts in CT images may not accurately reflect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Fenglei Fan , Hongming Shan , Mengzhou Li , Jimin Liang , Ge Wang

CT images have been used to generate radiation therapy treatment plans for more than two decades. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has shown high accuracy in estimating electronic density or proton stopping-power maps used in treatment planning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Tao Ge , Maria Medrano , Rui Liao , Jeffrey F. Williamson , David G. Politte , Bruce R. Whiting , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

Metal artifacts is a major challenge in computed tomography (CT) imaging, significantly degrading image quality and making accurate diagnosis difficult. However, previous methods either require prior knowledge of the location of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Jiandong Su , Ce Wang , Yinsheng Li , Kun Shang , Dong Liang

The positive outcome of a trauma intervention depends on an intraoperative evaluation of inserted metallic implants. Due to occurring metal artifacts, the quality of this evaluation heavily depends on the performance of so-called Metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Tristan M. Gottschalk , Andreas Maier , Florian Kordon , Björn W. Kreher

In spectral CT reconstruction, the basis materials decomposition involves solving a large-scale nonlinear system of integral equations, which is highly ill-posed mathematically. This paper proposes a model that parameterizes the attenuation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ligen Shi , Ping Yang , Chang Liu , Wei Zhang , Xing Zhao , Jun Qiu

Inconsistent responses of X-ray detector elements lead to stripe artifacts in the sinogram data, which manifest as ring artifacts in the reconstructed CT images, severely degrading image quality. This paper proposes a method for correcting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ligen Shi , Xu Jiang , YunZe Liu , Chang Liu , Ping Yang , Shifeng Guo , Xing Zhao

Recently, both supervised and unsupervised deep learning methods have been widely applied on the CT metal artifact reduction (MAR) task. Supervised methods such as Dual Domain Network (Du-DoNet) work well on simulation data; however, their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Yuanyuan Lyu , Jiajun Fu , Cheng Peng , S. Kevin Zhou

Recent CT Metal Artifacts Reduction (MAR) methods are often based on image-to-image convolutional neural networks for adjustment of corrupted sinograms or images themselves. In this paper, we are exploring the capabilities of a multi-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Artem Pimkin , Alexander Samoylenko , Natalia Antipina , Anna Ovechkina , Andrey Golanov , Alexandra Dalechina , Mikhail Belyaev

Limited-angle and sparse-view computed tomography (LACT and SVCT) are crucial for expanding the scope of X-ray CT applications. However, they face challenges due to incomplete data acquisition, resulting in diverse artifacts in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Chenhe Du , Xiyue Lin , Qing Wu , Xuanyu Tian , Ying Su , Zhe Luo , Rui Zheng , Yang Chen , Hongjiang Wei , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

In total hip arthroplasty, analysis of postoperative medical images is important to evaluate surgical outcome. Since Computed Tomography (CT) is most prevalent modality in orthopedic surgery, we aimed at the analysis of CT image. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Mitsuki Sakamoto , Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Yuki Suzuki , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Metal Artifacts creates often difficulties for a high quality visual assessment of post-operative imaging in {c}omputed {t}omography (CT). A vast body of methods have been proposed to tackle this issue, but {these} methods were designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wang Zihao , Vandersteen Clair , Demarcy Thomas , Gnansia Dan , Raffaelli Charles , Guevara Nicolas , Delingette Herve

Defective and inconsistent responses in CT detectors can cause ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them unusable for clinical purposes. In recent years, several ring artifact reduction solutions have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongxu Yang , Levente Lippenszky , Edina Timko , Gopal Avinash

Efficient and fast reconstruction of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in clinical practice. Minimizing retrieval and processing times not only potentially enhances swift response and decision-making in critical scenarios but also…

Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

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