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Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

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The contextual information is critical for various computer vision tasks, previous works commonly design plug-and-play modules and structural losses to effectively extract and aggregate the global context. These methods utilize fine-label…

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Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Image restoration is a low-level vision task, most CNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and internal aesthetics. Although some methods combining traditional optimization algorithms with DNNs have been proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Conventional Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography (FD-OCT) systems depend on resampling into wavenumber (k) domain to extract the depth profile. This either necessitates additional hardware resources or amplifies the existing…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Maryam Viqar , Erdem Sahin , Elena Stoykova , Violeta Madjarova

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Although deep learning-based segmentation models have achieved impressive performance on public benchmarks, generalizing well to unseen environments remains a major challenge. To improve the model's generalization ability to the new domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yunlong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Sunyi Zheng , Zhongyi Shui , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

Deep neural networks used for reconstructing sparse-view CT data are typically trained by minimizing a pixel-wise mean-squared error or similar loss function over a set of training images. However, networks trained with such pixel-wise…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Megan Lantz , Emil Y. Sidky , Ingrid S. Reiser , Xiaochuan Pan , Gregory Ongie

Computed Tomography (CT) imaging technique is widely used in geological exploration, medical diagnosis and other fields. In practice, however, the resolution of CT image is usually limited by scanning devices and great expense. Super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yukai Wang , Qizhi Teng , Xiaohai He , Junxi Feng , Tingrong Zhang

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of head Computed Tomography (CT) images elucidates the intricate spatial relationships of tissue structures, thereby assisting in accurate diagnosis. Nonetheless, securing an optimal head CT scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Bowen Zheng , Chenxi Huang , Yuemei Luo

Collecting labeled data for the task of semantic segmentation is expensive and time-consuming, as it requires dense pixel-level annotations. While recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based semantic segmentation approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangyun Zhao , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Philip Mansfield , Boqing Gong , Bradley Green , Lior Shapira , Ying Wu

Low Dose CT Denoising research aims to reduce the risks of radiation exposure to patients. Recently researchers have used deep learning to denoise low dose CT images with promising results. However, approaches that use mean-squared-error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Sepehr Ataei , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Computed tomography is widely used to examine internal structures in a non-destructive manner. To obtain high-quality reconstructions, one typically has to acquire a densely sampled trajectory to avoid angular undersampling. However, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Haoyu Wei , Florian Schiffers , Tobias Würfl , Daming Shen , Daniel Kim , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

In computed tomography (CT), data truncation is a common problem. Images reconstructed by the standard filtered back-projection algorithm from truncated data suffer from cupping artifacts inside the field-of-view (FOV), while anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Yixing Huang , Lei Gao , Alexander Preuhs , Andreas Maier

An effective framework for learning 3D representations for perception tasks is distilling rich self-supervised image features via contrastive learning. However, image-to point representation learning for autonomous driving datasets faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Tianshu Kuai , Ali Harakeh , Liam Paull , Steven L. Waslander

Automated lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) is an important and challenging task in medical image analysis. While many advancements have been made, there is room for continued improvements. One hurdle is that CT images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Youbao Tang , Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Adam P. Harrison , Ke Yan , Jing Xiao , Lin Yang , Ronald M. Summers

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) enables fast and low-dose CT imaging, an essential feature for patient-save medical imaging and rapid non-destructive testing. In sparse-view CT, only a few projection views are acquired, causing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Nadja Gruber , Johannes Schwab , Elke Gizewski , Markus Haltmeier

Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Quanzheng Li