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We introduce a new CT image reconstruction algorithm that is less affected by various artifacts. The new reconstruction algorithm is a method of minimizing the difference between synchrotron X-ray tomography data and sinograms generated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Byung Chun Kim , Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Low-dose CT (LDCT) protocols reduce radiation exposure but increase image noise, compromising diagnostic confidence. Diffusion-based generative models have shown promise for LDCT denoising by learning image priors and performing iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tomás de la Sotta , José M. Saavedra , Héctor Henríquez , Violeta Chang , Aline Xavier

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Xuehang Zheng , Zening Lu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has become the technology of choice for diagnostic medical imaging, given its lower radiation dose compared to standard CT, despite increasing image noise and potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Bin Wang , Fei Deng , Peifan Jiang , Shuang Wang , Xiao Han , Zhixuan Zhang

Low-count positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a challenging inverse problem due to severe degradations arising from Poisson noise, photon scarcity, and attenuation correction errors. Existing deep learning methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zheng Zhang , Hao Tang , Yingying Hu , Zhanli Hu , Jing Qin

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

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is widely used to reduce radiation exposure to mitigate high exposure side effects, but often suffers from noise and artifacts that affect diagnostic accuracy. To tackle this issue, deep learning models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Taifour Yousra , Beghdadi Azeddine , Marie Luong , Zuheng Ming

Phase retrieval (PR) is fundamentally important in scientific imaging and is crucial for nanoscale techniques like coherent diffractive imaging (CDI). Low radiation dose imaging is essential for applications involving radiation-sensitive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Raunak Manekar , Elisa Negrini , Minh Pham , Daniel Jacobs , Jaideep Srivastava , Stanley J. Osher , Jianwei Miao

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Hyoung Suk Park , Jineon Baek , Sun Kyoung You , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is the standard modality for lung cancer screening, known for its low radiation dose but high noise levels. While existing literature focuses on denoising LDCT images, comparative research on simulating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jiaying Liu , Anna Corti , Valentina D. A. Corino , Luca Mainardi

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) plays a vital role in clinical applications by mitigating radiation risks. Nevertheless, reducing radiation doses significantly degrades image quality. Concurrently, common deep learning methods demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wenhao Zhang , Bin Huang , Shuyue Chen , Xiaoling Xu , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

The goal of this work is to reduce the effect of photon noise in dental cone-beam CT reconstruction. We consider an inverse problem formulation and develop a databased prior. To this end, we simulate fan-beam acquisitions and add photon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Idris Tatachak , Luis Kabongo , Nicolas Papadakis , Xavier Ripoche , Simon Rit

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) denoising is an important problem in CT research. Compared to the normal dose CT (NDCT), LDCT images are subjected to severe noise and artifacts. Recently in many studies, vision transformers have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Dayang Wang , Fenglei Fan , Zhan Wu , Rui Liu , Fei Wang , Hengyong Yu

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

Despite extensive research on computed tomography (CT) denoising, few studies exploit projection-domain data characteristics to mitigate noise correlation. To bridge this gap, this work proposes FrequencyCT, the first zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guoquan Wei , Liu Shi , Chong Chen , Qiegen Liu

We introduce a stop-code tolerant (SCT) approach to training recurrent convolutional neural networks for lossy image compression. Our methods introduce a multi-pass training method to combine the training goals of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Michele Covell , Nick Johnston , David Minnen , Sung Jin Hwang , Joel Shor , Saurabh Singh , Damien Vincent , George Toderici

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) is widely used as an imaging solution to aid diagnosis and other clinical tasks. However, this comes at the price of a deterioration in image quality due to the low dose of radiation used to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Taifour Yousra Nabila , Azeddine Beghdadi , Marie Luong , Zuheng Ming , Habib Zaidi , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) offers the advantages of reduced radiation dose and shortened scanning time. Traditional reconstruction algorithms exhibit various inherent limitations in LACT. Currently, most deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Zekun Zhou , WenZhe Shan , Qiegen Liu
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