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To shorten the door-to-puncture time for better treating patients with acute ischemic stroke, it is highly desired to obtain quantitative cerebral perfusion images using C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) equipped in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Haotian Zhao , Ruifeng Chen , Jing Yan , Juan Feng , Jun Xiang , Yang Chen , Dong Liang , Yinsheng Li

Computed Tomography (CT) is a vital diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet the health risks associated with ionizing radiation cannot be overlooked. Low-dose CT (LDCT) helps mitigate radiation exposure but simultaneously leads to reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guoliang Gong , Man Yu

Image synthesis is used to generate synthetic CTs (sCTs) from on-treatment cone-beam CTs (CBCTs) with a view to improving image quality and enabling accurate dose computation to facilitate a CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy workflow. As…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Chelsea A. H. Sargeant , Edward G. A. Henderson , Dónal M. McSweeney , Aaron G. Rankin , Denis Page

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is routinely acquired during radiotherapy for patient setup, but its quantitative reliability is degraded by scatter, noise, and reconstruction artifacts, limiting Hounsfield Unit (HU) accuracy. We propose EPC-3D-Diff, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Haytham Al Ewaidat , Khaled Alawneh , Ahmad Qendel , Alessandro Perelli

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Computed tomography (CT) equivalent information is needed for attenuation correction in PET imaging and for dose planning in radiotherapy. Prior work has shown that Gaussian mixture models can be used to generate a substitute CT (s-CT)…

Applications · Statistics 2016-09-29 Anders Hildeman , David Bolin , Jonas Wallin , Adam Johansson , Tufve Nyholm , Thomas Asklund , Jun Yu

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is used to recover the true surfaces of fluid channels and fed to simulation tool (ANSYS) to create accurate cyber environment. The simulation tool also receives CT-assisted multiphase fluid profiles…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-06 Vaishali Sharma , Arpit Kumar , Snehlata Shakya , Mayank Goswami

Diffusion models have significant impact on wide range of generative tasks, especially on image inpainting and restoration. Although the improvements on aiming for decreasing number of function evaluations (NFE), the iterative results are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Mahmut S. Gokmen , Jie Zhang , Ge Wang , Jin Chen , Cody Bumgardner

Purpose/Objective: Brain tumors result in 20 years of lost life on average. Standard therapies induce complex structural changes in the brain that are monitored through MRI. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) enable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Selena Huisman , Nordin Belkacemi , Vera Keil , Joost Verhoeff , Szabolcs David

The purpose of this work is to provide a fast and accurate scatter artifacts correction algorithm for cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging. The method starts with an estimation of coarse scatter profiles for a set of CBCT data in either image domain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wei Zhao , Don Vernekohl , Jun Zhu , Luyao Wang , Lei Xing

Accurate motion estimation in cardiac computed tomography (CT) imaging is critical for assessing cardiac function and surgical planning. Data-driven methods have become the standard approach for dense motion estimation, but they rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Shahar Zuler , Gal Lifshitz , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Dan Raviv

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is a vital non-invasive tool for diagnosing heart diseases and evaluating cardiac health. However, the limited availability of large-scale, high-quality CMR datasets poses a major challenge to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ziyu Li , Yujian Hu , Zhengyao Ding , Yiheng Mao , Haitao Li , Fan Yi , Hongkun Zhang , Zhengxing Huang

Non-contrast CT (NCCT) imaging may reduce image contrast and anatomical visibility, potentially increasing diagnostic uncertainty. In contrast, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) facilitates the observation of regions of interest (ROI). Leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Tingyi Lin , Pengju Lyu , Jie Zhang , Yuqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Jianjun Zhu

Most deep learning models for computational imaging regress a single reconstructed image. In practice, however, ill-posedness, nonlinearity, model mismatch, and noise often conspire to make such point estimates misleading or insufficient.…

In clinical practice, multiphase contrast-enhanced CT (MCCT) is important for physiological and pathological imaging with contrast injection, which undergoes non-contrast, venous, and delayed phases. Inevitably, the accumulated radiation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Rongjun Ge , Ge Wang

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is installed in the treatment room to facilitate online clinical applications, including image guidance in radiation and surgery. Half-fan and short-can are the commonly used modes in clinical applications to expand the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Junbo Peng

Conditional flow matching (CFM) has emerged as a powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows due to its computational efficiency and effectiveness. However, standard CFM often produces paths that deviate significantly from…

Purpose: Medical imaging has become increasingly important in diagnosing and treating oncological patients, particularly in radiotherapy. Recent advances in synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation have increased interest in public…

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used for evaluation of hemodynamics. However, its routine use is limited by labor-intensive manual segmentation, CFD mesh creation, and time-consuming simulation. This study aims to train a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tina Yao , Endrit Pajaziti , Michael Quail , Silvia Schievano , Jennifer A Steeden , Vivek Muthurangu

This paper provides a fast and patient-specific scatter artifact correction method for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) used in image-guided interventional procedures. Due to increased irradiated volume of interest in CBCT imaging,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Wei Zhao , Stephen Brunner , Kai Niu , Sebastian Schafer , Kevin Royalty , Guang-Hong Chen