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Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-invasive imaging modality with applications ranging from healthcare to security. It reconstructs cross-sectional images of an object using a collection of projection data collected at different angles.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction is a challenging reconstruction problem in the fields of CT. With the development of deep learning, the generative adversarial network (GAN) perform well in image restoration by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Ziheng Li , Wenkun Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Ailong Cai , Ningning Liang , Bin Yan , Lei Li

Recently, deep learning(DL) methods have been proposed for the low-dose computed tomography(LdCT) enhancement, and obtain good trade-off between computational efficiency and image quality. Most of them need large number of pre-collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Mingrui Geng , Yun Deng , Qian Zhao , Qi Xie , Dong Zeng , Dong Zeng , Wangmeng Zuo , Deyu Meng

Limited angle problem is a challenging issue in x-ray computed tomography (CT) field. Iterative reconstruction methods that utilize the additional prior can suppress artifacts and improve image quality, but unfortunately require increased…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hanming Zhang , Liang Li , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Lei Li , Guoen Hu

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Cheng Peng , Xiaohang Sun , Jingdan Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Rama Chellappa , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

This paper proposes a sinogram consistency learning method to deal with beam-hardening related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Sparse view computed tomography (CT) reconstruction poses a challenging ill-posed inverse problem, necessitating effective regularization techniques. In this letter, we employ $L_p$-norm ($0<p<1$) regularization to induce sparsity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Yu Guo , Caiying Wu , Yaxin Li , Qiyu Jin , Tieyong Zeng

Low-dose Computed Tomography is a common issue in reality. Current reduction, sparse sampling and limited-view scanning can all cause it. Between them, limited-view CT is general in the industry due to inevitable mechanical and physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Ken Deng , Chang Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

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

Metal implants can heavily attenuate X-rays in computed tomography (CT) scans, leading to severe artifacts in reconstructed images, which significantly jeopardize image quality and negatively impact subsequent diagnoses and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Yongqiang Huang , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction from X-ray projections acquired within a limited angle range is challenging, especially when the angle range is extremely small. Both analytical and iterative models need more projections for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Ce Wang , Haimiao Zhang , Qian Li , Kun Shang , Yuanyuan Lyu , Bin Dong , S. Kevin Zhou

We present a pixel-specific, measurement-driven correction that effectively minimizes errors in detector response that give rise to the ring artifacts commonly seen in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. This correction is easy to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Linda C. P. Croton , Gary Ruben , Kaye S. Morgan , David M. Paganin , Marcus J. Kitchen

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

Digital image inpainting is an interpolation problem, inferring the content in the missing (unknown) region to agree with the known region data such that the interpolated result fulfills some prior knowledge. Low-rank and nonlocal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Shenghai Liao , Xuya Liu , Ruyi Han , Shujun Fu , Yuanfeng Zhou , Yuliang Li

Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Johannes Thalhammer , Tina Dorosti , Sebastian Peterhansl , Daniela Pfeiffer , Franz Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of widely used diagnostic tools for medical and dental tomographic imaging of the human body. However, the standard filtered backprojection reconstruction method requires the complete knowledge of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

Ring artifacts in X-ray micro-CT images are one of the primary causes of concern in their accurate visual interpretation and quantitative analysis. The geometry of X-ray micro-CT scanners is similar to the medical CT machines, except the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Dhruvi Shah , Shruti Mehta , Ashish Agrawal , Shishir Purohit , Bhaskar Chaudhury

In this paper, we first propose a variational model for the limited-angle computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction and then convert the model into an end-to-end deep network.We use the penalty method to solve the model and divide it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Images suffer from heavy spatial redundancy because pixels in neighboring regions are spatially correlated. Existing approaches strive to overcome this limitation by reducing less meaningful image regions. However, current leading methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yang Luo , Zhineng Chen , Peng Zhou , Zuxuan Wu , Xieping Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang