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Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Despite impressive results from recent text-to-image models like FLUX, visual and anatomical artifacts remain a significant hurdle for practical and professional use. Existing methods for artifact reduction, typically work in a post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alicja Polowczyk , Agnieszka Polowczyk , Piotr Borycki , Joanna Waczyńska , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Photon-counting spectral computed tomography is now clinically available. These new detectors come with the promise of higher contrast-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution and improved low-dose imaging. However, one important design…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Dennis Hein , Konstantinos Liappis , Fredrik Grönberg , Alma Eguizabal , Mats Persson

Foundation models trained via vision-language pretraining have demonstrated strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse image domains, yet their application to volumetric medical imaging remains limited. We introduce MedCT-VLM: Medical CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thuraya Alzubaidi , Farhad R. Nezami , Muzammil Behzad

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

Medical imaging is playing a more and more important role in clinics. However, there are several issues in different imaging modalities such as slow imaging speed in MRI, radiation injury in CT and PET. Therefore, accelerating MRI, reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Qiegen Liu , Qiyang Zhang , Ting Su , Jianwei Chen , Yongshuai Ge , Zhanli Hu , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) aims to minimize the radiation exposure to patients while maintaining diagnostic image quality. However, traditional CT reconstruction algorithms often struggle with the ill-posed nature of the problem,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Daisy Chen

A conventional approach to computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT (CBCT) metal artifact reduction is to replace the X-ray projection data within the metal trace with synthesized data. However, existing projection or sinogram completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Haofu Liao , Wei-An Lin , Zhimin Huo , Levon Vogelsang , William J. Sehnert , S. Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Purpose: Deep learning-based MRI artifact correction methods often demonstrate poor generalization to clinical data. This limitation largely stems from the inability of deep learning models in reliably distinguishing motion artifacts from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ziheng Guo , Danqun Zheng , Shuai Li , Chengwei Chen , Boyang Pan , Xuezhou Li , Ziqin Yu , Langdi Zhong , Chenwei Shao , Yun Bian , Nan-Jie Gong

The presence of metal implants within CT imaging causes severe attenuation of the X-ray beam. Due to the incomplete information recorded by CT detectors, artifacts in the form of streaks and dark bands would appear in the resulting CT…

This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon , Jin Keun Seo

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) lowers the computational and memory overhead of fine-tuning large models by updating a low-dimensional subspace of the pre-trained weight matrix. Albeit efficient, LoRA exhibits suboptimal convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

As the misuse of AI-generated images grows, generalizable image detection techniques are urgently needed. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods adopt aligned training datasets to reduce content, size, and format biases, empowering models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zichang Tan , Gao Li , Zhen Lei , Wenhao Wang

Efficient and fast reconstruction of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in clinical practice. Minimizing retrieval and processing times not only potentially enhances swift response and decision-making in critical scenarios but also…

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang

Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sho Ozaki , Shizuo Kaji , Toshikazu Imae , Kanabu Nawa , Hideomi Yamashita , Keiichi Nakagawa

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Purpose: To investigate whether a vision-language foundation model can enhance undersampled MRI reconstruction by providing high-level contextual information beyond conventional priors. Methods: We proposed a semantic distribution-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruimin Feng , Xingxin He , Ronald Mercer , Zachary Stewart , Fang Liu

Defective and inconsistent responses in CT detectors can cause ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them unusable for clinical purposes. In recent years, several ring artifact reduction solutions have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongxu Yang , Levente Lippenszky , Edina Timko , Gopal Avinash

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