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We propose a Noise Entangled GAN (NE-GAN) for simulating low-dose computed tomography (CT) images from a higher dose CT image. First, we present two schemes to generate a clean CT image and a noise image from the high-dose CT image. Then,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Chuang Niu , Ge Wang , Pingkun Yan , Juergen Hahn , Youfang Lai , Xun Jia , Arjun Krishna , Klaus Mueller , Andreu Badal , KyleJ. Myers , Rongping Zeng

This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Ruyi Zha , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) suffers from speckle noise, causing the deterioration of image quality, especially in high-resolution modalities like visible light OCT (vis-OCT). The potential of conventional supervised deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Lingyun Wang , Jose A Sahel , Shaohua Pi

Improving the spatial resolution of CT images is a meaningful yet challenging task, often accompanied by the issue of noise amplification. This article introduces an innovative framework for noise-controlled CT super-resolution utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuang Wang , Siyeop Yoon , Rui Hu , Baihui Yu , Duhgoon Lee , Rajiv Gupta , Li Zhang , Zhiqiang Chen , Dufan Wu

Deep learning has been successfully applied to low-dose CT (LDCT) image denoising for reducing potential radiation risk. However, the widely reported supervised LDCT denoising networks require a training set of paired images, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yuhui Ruan , Qiao Yuan , Chuang Niu , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Ge Wang , Yueyang Teng

Existing single-image denoising algorithms often struggle to restore details when dealing with complex noisy images. The introduction of near-infrared (NIR) images offers new possibilities for RGB image denoising. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yuchen Wang , Hongyuan Wang , Lizhi Wang , Xin Wang , Lin Zhu , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

In traditional speech denoising tasks, clean audio signals are often used as the training target, but absolutely clean signals are collected from expensive recording equipment or in studios with the strict environments. To overcome this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Jiasong Wu , Qingchun Li , Guanyu Yang , Lei Li , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

We consider the problem of reconstructing a discrete-time signal (sequence) with continuous-valued components corrupted by a known memoryless channel. When performance is measured using a per-symbol loss function satisfying mild regularity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-23 Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan , Tsachy Weissman

We propose a dual-domain cascade of U-nets (i.e. a "W-net") operating in both the spatial frequency and image domains to enhance low-dose CT (LDCT) images without the need for proprietary x-ray projection data. The central slice theorem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Kevin J. Chung , Roberto Souza , Richard Frayne , Ting-Yim Lee

An alternative approach to ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) for medical imaging is proposed, with the intent to (i) shorten acquisition time for devices with a large number of emitters, (ii) eliminate the calibration step, and (iii)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ines Elisa Ulrich , Christian Boehm , Andrea Zunino , Cyrill Bösch , Andreas Fichtner

The radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) examinations is harmful for patients but can be significantly reduced by intuitively decreasing the number of projection views. Reducing projection views usually leads to severe aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bing Guan , Cailian Yang , Liu Zhang , Shanzhou Niu , Minghui Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

We tackle the problem of monocular 3D object detection across different sensors, environments, and camera setups. In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised domain adaptation approach, MonoCT, that generates highly accurate pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Johannes Meier , Louis Inchingolo , Oussema Dhaouadi , Yan Xia , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is critical for minimizing radiation exposure, but it often leads to increased noise and reduced image quality. Traditional denoising methods, such as iterative optimization or supervised learning, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Debopom Sutradhar , Ripon Kumar Debnath , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Yan Zhang , Reem E. Mohamed , Sami Azam

Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common and life-saving medical imaging technique. However, acquiring high signal-to-noise ratio MRI scans requires long scan times, resulting in increased costs and patient discomfort, and decreased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Tiange Xiang , Mahmut Yurt , Ali B Syed , Kawin Setsompop , Akshay Chaudhari

Noisy supervision refers to supervising image restoration learning with noisy targets. It can alleviate the data collection burden and enhance the practical applicability of deep learning techniques. However, existing methods suffer from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Haosen Liu , Jiahao Liu , Shan Tan , Edmund Y. Lam

We address the problem of exposure correction of dark, blurry and noisy images captured in low-light conditions in the wild. Classical image-denoising filters work well in the frequency space but are constrained by several factors such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Ojasvi Yadav , Koustav Ghosal , Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

Limited data and low dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms which lead to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years sinogram denoising has become an essential pre-processing step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Pierre Vandergheynst , Ulf Skoglund

Spectral computed tomography (CT) with photon-counting detectors holds immense potential for material discrimination and tissue characterization. However, under ultra-low-dose conditions, the sharply degraded signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Peng Peng , Xinrui Zhang , Junlin Wang , Lei Li , Shaoyu Wang , Qiegen Liu