English
Related papers

Related papers: Complex Wavelet-Based Sinogram Segmentation for Me…

200 papers

Deep learning based approaches have been used to improve image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), a medical imaging technique often used in applications such as image-guided radiation therapy, implant dentistry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mohammadreza Amirian , Daniel Barco , Ivo Herzig , Frank-Peter Schilling

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) severely degrade image quality, compromising diagnostic accuracy and radiotherapy planning, especially in cancer patients with high-density implants. We propose H3D-MarNet, a two-stage framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mubashara Rehman , Niki Martinel , Michele Avanzo , Riccardo Spizzo , Christian Micheloni

Low-dose dental cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been increasingly used for maxillofacial modeling. However, the presence of metallic inserts, such as implants, crowns, and dental filling, causes severe streaking and shading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Chang Min Hyun , Taigyntuya Bayaraa , Hye Sun Yun , Tae Jun Jang , Hyoung Suk Park , Jin Keun Seo

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

In computer tomography, due to the presence of metal implants in the patient body, reconstructed images will suffer from metal artifacts. In order to reduce metal artifacts, metals are typically removed in projection images. Therefore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lin Yuan , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

Metal artifacts caused by the presence of metallic implants tremendously degrade the reconstructed computed tomography (CT) image quality, affecting clinical diagnosis or reducing the accuracy of organ delineation and dose calculation in…

Metallic implants introduce severe artifacts in CT images, which degrades the image quality. It is an effective method to reduce metal artifacts by replacing the metal affected projection with the forward projection of a prior image. How to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Yanbo Zhang , Xuanqian Mou

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Jan-Nico Zaech , Cong Gao , Bastian Bier , Russell Taylor , Andreas Maier , Nassir Navab , Mathias Unberath

The reduction of metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images, specifically for strong artifacts generated from multiple metal objects, is a challenging issue in medical imaging research. Although there have been some studies on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Megumi Nakao , Keiho Imanishi , Nobuhiro Ueda , Yuichiro Imai , Tadaaki Kirita , Tetsuya Matsuda

Computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) aims to reduce the severe streaking artifacts induced by metallic implants and other high-density objects. Effective MAR generally requires both accurate artifact localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zilong Li , Chenglong Ma , Yiming Lei , Yuanlin Li , Jing Han , Jiannan Liu , Huidong Xie , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

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

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

Due to the wide applications of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in medical imaging activities, radiation exposure has become a major concern for public health. Sparse-view CT is a promising approach to reduce the radiation dose by…

Metal implants and other high-density objects in patients introduce severe streaking artifacts in CT images, compromising image quality and diagnostic performance. Although various methods were developed for CT metal artifact reduction over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Zilong Li , Qi Gao , Yaping Wu , Chuang Niu , Junping Zhang , Meiyun Wang , Ge Wang , Hongming Shan

In several image acquisition and processing steps of X-ray radiography, knowledge of the existence of metal implants and their exact position is highly beneficial (e.g. dose regulation, image contrast adjustment). Another application which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Fuxin Fan , Ludwig Ritschl , Marcel Beister , Ramyar Biniazan , Björn Kreher , Tristan M. Gottschalk , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Conebeam CT using a circular trajectory is quite often used for various applications due to its relative simple geometry. For conebeam geometry, Feldkamp, Davis and Kress algorithm is regarded as the standard reconstruction method, but this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Yoseob Han , Junyoung Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Metal streak artifacts in X-ray computerized tomography (CT) are rigorously characterized here using the notion of the wavefront set from microlocal analysis. The metal artifacts are caused mainly from the mismatch of the forward model of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Hyoung Suk Park , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Due to the energy-dependent nature of the attenuation coefficient and the polychromaticity of the X-ray source, beam hardening effect occurs when X-ray photons penetrate through an object, causing a nonlinear projection data. When a linear…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Wei Zhao , Dengwang Li , Kai Niu , Wenjian Qin , Hao Peng , Tianye Niu

Objective: X-ray computed tomography employing sparse projection views has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. However, due to the inadequate number of projection views, an analytic reconstruction method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yoseob Han

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl