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Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) arise from a mismatch between physics of image formation and idealized assumptions during tomographic reconstruction. These artifacts are particularly strong around metal implants, inhibiting…

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Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem, where the size of the set of feasible solutions that are consistent with a given low-resolution image is very large. Many algorithms have been proposed to find a "good" solution among…

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Recently, compressed sensing (CS) computed tomography (CT) using sparse projection views has been extensively investigated to reduce the potential risk of radiation to patient. However, due to the insufficient number of projection views, an…

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Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require…

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MR-only radiotherapy treatment planning requires accurate MR-to-CT synthesis. Current deep learning methods for MR-to-CT synthesis depend on pairwise aligned MR and CT training images of the same patient. However, misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jelmer M. Wolterink , Anna M. Dinkla , Mark H. F. Savenije , Peter R. Seevinck , Cornelis A. T. van den Berg , Ivana Isgum

Unrolled networks have been widely used for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction due to their efficiency. However, they typically exhibit unstable output quality across cascades, resulting in sub-optimal final reconstruction…

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Due to the presence of metallic implants, the imaging quality of computed tomography (CT) would be heavily degraded. With the rapid development of deep learning, several network models have been proposed for metal artifact reduction (MAR).…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Computed Tomography (CT) is an advanced imaging technology used in many important applications. Here we present a deep-learning (DL) based CT super-resolution (SR) method that can reconstruct low-resolution (LR) sinograms into high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Zhicheng Zhang , Shaode Yu , Wenjian Qin , Xiaokun Liang , Yaoqin Xie , Guohua Cao

Regularization is used to avoid overfitting when training a neural network; unfortunately, this reduces the attainable level of detail hindering the ability to capture high-frequency information present in the training data. Even though…

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The detection of early signs of volcanic unrest preceding an eruption, in the form of ground deformation in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data is critical for assessing volcanic hazard. In this work we treat this as a…

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Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used medical imaging technique to scan internal structures of a body, typically involving collimation and mechanical rotation. Compton scatter tomography (CST) presents an interesting alternative to…

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This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

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Image super-resolution (SR) with generative adversarial networks (GAN) has achieved great success in restoring realistic details. However, it is notorious that GAN-based SR models will inevitably produce unpleasant and undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Liangbin Xie , Xintao Wang , Xiangyu Chen , Gen Li , Ying Shan , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Symmetric objects are common in daily life and industry, yet their inherent orientation ambiguities that impede the training of deep learning networks for pose estimation are rarely discussed in the literature. To cope with these…

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Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery for estimating ground movement, based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is gaining increasing importance in remote sensing. However, noise corrupts microwave reflections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Aaron Zimmer , Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Xinyao Sun , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

Reconstruction of CT images from a limited set of projections through an object is important in several applications ranging from medical imaging to industrial settings. As the number of available projections decreases, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anish Lahiri , Marc Klasky , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for diagnosis of cardiac diseases thanks to its ability to present cardiovascular features in excellent contrast. As compared to computed tomography (CT), MRI, however, requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Yibin Xie , Debiao Li , Ge Wang

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT) are the primary diagnostic imaging modalities quite frequently used for surgical planning and analysis. A general problem with medical imaging is that the acquisition process is…

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