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Conventional cone-beam CT (CBCT) can be easily compromised by scatter and beam hardening artifacts, and the entanglement of scatter and spectral effects introduces additional complexity. In this work, we present the first attempt to develop…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yifan Deng , Hao Zhou , Zhilei Wang , Adam S. Wang , Hewei Gao

In Europe the 20% of the CT scans cover the thoracic region. The acquired images contain information about the cardiovascular system that often remains latent due to the lack of contrast in the cardiac area. On the other hand, the contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Gianmarco Santini , Lorena M. Zumbo , Nicola Martini , Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Andrea Ripoli , Francesco Avogliero , Dante Chiappino , Daniele Della Latta

We assessed the benefit of combining stress cardiac CT perfusion (CCTP) myocardial blood flow (MBF) with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) using our innovative CCTP software. By combining CCTA and CCTP, one can uniquely identify a flow…

Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used in medical imaging. However, the limited number and intensity of X-ray projections make reconstruction an ill-posed problem with severe artifacts. NeRF-based methods have achieved great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Zhuowei Xu , Han Li , Dai Sun , Zhicheng Li , Yujia Li , Qingpeng Kong , Zhiwei Cheng , Nassir Navab , S. Kevin Zhou

Visually-guided acoustic highlighting seeks to rebalance audio in alignment with the accompanying video, creating a coherent audio-visual experience. While visual saliency and enhancement have been widely studied, acoustic highlighting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hugo Malard , Gael Le Lan , Daniel Wong , David Lou Alon , Yi-Chiao Wu , Sanjeel Parekh

Background: Dual-energy imaging on cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanners has great potential in different clinical applications, including image-guided surgery and adaptive proton therapy. However, the clinical practice of dual-energy CBCT (DE-CBCT)…

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy for image-guided treatment, improving setup accuracy, adaptive planning, and motion management. However, slow gantry rotation limits performance by introducing motion artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuan Gao , Shaoyan Pan , Mingzhe Hu , Huiqiao Xie , Jill Remick , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Zhen Tian , Xiaofeng Yang

Although mechanical ventilation is a lifesaving intervention in the ICU, it has harmful side-effects, such as barotrauma and volutrauma. These harms can occur due to asynchronies. Asynchronies are defined as a mismatch between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 A. van Diepen , T. H. G. F. Bakkes , A. J. R. De Bie , S. Turco , R. A. Bouwman , P. H. Woerlee , M. Mischi

Computed tomography (CT) has been developed as a non-destructive technique for observing minute internal images of samples. It has been difficult to obtain photo-realistic (clean or clear) CT images due to various unwanted artifacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Kyungtaek Jun

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study blood flows in patient-specific arteries for understanding certain cardiovascular diseases. The techniques work quite well for relatively simple problems, but need…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Fande Kong , Vitaly Kheyfets , Ender Finol , Xiao-Chuan Cai

Accurate dose calculation on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is essential for modern proton treatment planning workflows, particularly when accounting for inter-fractional anatomical changes in adaptive treatment scenarios.…

Deep generative models provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide array of applications, with recent studies showing increasing applicability for science and engineering. Despite a growing corpus of literature focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jacob K. Christopher , James E. Warner , Ferdinando Fioretto

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

The concept of using kilovoltage (kV) and megavoltage (MV) beams concurrently has potential applications in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) guided radiation therapy, such as single breath hold scans, metal artifact reduction, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Farhang Bayat , Mohamed Elsayed Eldib , Brian Kavanagh , Moyed Miften , Cem Altunbas

We present Consistent-Recurrent Feature Flow Transformer (CRFT), a unified coarse-to-fine framework based on feature flow learning for robust cross-modal image registration. CRFT learns a modality-independent feature flow representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xuecong Liu , Mengzhu Ding , Zixuan Sun , Zhang Li , Xichao Teng

Purpose: This study assesses the effectiveness of Deep Learning (DL) for creating synthetic CT (sCT) images in MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy (MRgART). Methods: A Cycle-GAN model was trained with MRI and CT scan slices from MR-LINAC…

Purpose: This study assessed the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic CT images generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for focal brain radiation therapy, using a deep learning approach. Material and Methods: We conducted a study…

Fine-tuning flow matching models is a central challenge in settings with limited data, evolving distributions, or strict efficiency demands, where unconstrained fine-tuning can erode the accuracy and efficiency gains learned during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gudrun Thorkelsdottir , Arindam Banerjee

Scatter can account for large errors in cone-beam CT (CBCT) due to its wide field of view, and its complicated nature makes its compensation difficult. Iterative polyenergetic reconstruction algorithms offer the potential to provide…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Jonathan H. Mason , Alessandro Perelli , William H. Nailon , Mike E. Davies

Despite the growing importance of dental CBCT scans for diagnosis and treatment planning, generating anatomically realistic scans with fine-grained control remains a challenge in medical image synthesis. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Said Djafar Said , Torkan Gholamalizadeh , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi