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Background: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) plays a crucial role in image-guided radiotherapy, but artifacts and noise make them unsuitable for accurate dose calculation. Artificial intelligence methods have shown promise in enhancing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Shi Yin , Hongqi Tan , Li Ming Chong , Haofeng Liu , Hui Liu , Kang Hao Lee , Jeffrey Kit Loong Tuan , Dean Ho , Yueming Jin

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers advantages over conventional fan-beam CT in that it requires a shorter time and less exposure to obtain images. CBCT has found a wide variety of applications in patient positioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 S. Kida , S. Kaji , K. Nawa , T. Imae , T. Nakamoto , S. Ozaki , T. Ohta , Y. Nozawa , K. Nakagawa

Image reconstruction from computed tomography (CT) measurement is a challenging statistical inverse problem since a high-dimensional conditional distribution needs to be estimated. Based on training data obtained from high-quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Alexander Denker , Maximilian Schmidt , Johannes Leuschner , Peter Maass , Jens Behrmann

The generation of synthetic CT (sCT) images from cone-beam CT (CBCT) data using deep learning methodologies represents a significant advancement in radiation oncology. This systematic review, following PRISMA guidelines and using the PICO…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Alzahra Altalib , Scott McGregor , Chunhui Li , Alessandro Perelli

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) finds diverse applications in medicine. Ensuring high image quality in CBCT scans is essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment delivery. Yet, the susceptibility of CBCT images to noise and artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yunkui Pang , Yilin Liu , Xu Chen , Pew-Thian Yap , Jun Lian

X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Jia , Bin Dong , Yifei Lou , Steve B. Jiang

We propose Coreset-Induced Conditional Velocity Flow Matching (CCVFM), a generative model that augments hierarchical rectified flow with a data-informed source distribution. Hierarchical flow matching models the full conditional velocity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Xiao Wang , Zihua She , Jianxi Su

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important tool facilitating computer aided interventions, despite often suffering from artifacts that pose challenges for accurate interpretation. While the degraded image quality can affect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Cone beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used for patient setup in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). Radiation dose from CBCT scans has become a clinical concern. The purposes of this study are 1) to commission a GPU-based Monte Carlo (MC)…

Purpose: To evaluate a proposed method to reconstruct CT numbers that accurately mimic conventional CT numbers from spectral CT data, as would have been produced by a conventional system without effects of beam hardening. Approach: We…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Fredrik Grönberg , Hans Bornefalk

Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) was developed based on Image-guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and it is the trend of photon radiation therapy. To get a better use of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) images for ART, the CBCT system model was established…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Yu Wang , Chaobin Chen , Ruifen Cao , Liqin Hu , Bingbing Li

Medical imaging is vital in computer assisted intervention. Particularly cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) with defacto real time and mobility capabilities plays an important role. However, CBCT images often suffer from artifacts, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Synthetic electrocardiogram generation serves medical AI applications requiring privacy-preserving data sharing and training dataset augmentation. Current diffusion-based methods achieve high generation quality but require hundreds of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Vitalii Bondar , Serhii Semenov , Vira Babenko , Dmytro Holovniak

In current clinical practice, noisy and artifact-ridden weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are only used for patient setup during radiotherapy. Treatment planning is done once at the beginning of the treatment using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-02 Navdeep Dahiya , Sadegh R Alam , Pengpeng Zhang , Si-Yuan Zhang , Anthony Yezzi , Saad Nadeem

Intracardiac flow patterns are shaped by the coupled motion of the cardiac chambers and heart valves and provide important information about cardiac function. However, clinical flow imaging remains limited by exam times, noise, resolution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Fanwei Kong , Aaron Brown , Michael Loecher , Perry S. Choi , Lei Shi , Michael Ma , Daniel B. Ennis , Alison Marsden

Flow matching models have shown great potential in image generation tasks among probabilistic generative models. However, most flow matching models in the literature do not explicitly utilize the underlying clustering structure in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Anirban Samaddar , Yixuan Sun , Viktor Nilsson , Sandeep Madireddy

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Poor tissue visualization and quantitative accuracy in CBCT is a major barrier in expanding the role of CBCT imaging from target localization to quantitative treatment monitoring and plan adaptations in radiation therapy sessions. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Farhang Bayat , Dan Ruan , Moyed Miften , Cem Altunbas