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For the planning of radiotherapy treatments for head and neck cancers, Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the patients are typically employed. However, in patients with head and neck cancer, the quality of standard CT scans generated using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Belén Serrano-Antón , Mubashara Rehman , Niki Martinel , Michele Avanzo , Riccardo Spizzo , Giuseppe Fanetti , Alberto P. Muñuzuri , Christian Micheloni

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Cheng Peng , Xiaohang Sun , Jingdan Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Rama Chellappa , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

During the computed tomography (CT) imaging process, metallic implants within patients often cause harmful artifacts, which adversely degrade the visual quality of reconstructed CT images and negatively affect the subsequent clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Artifacts in kilo-Voltage CT (kVCT) imaging degrade image quality, impacting clinical decisions. We propose a deep learning framework for metal artifact reduction (MAR) and domain transformation from kVCT to Mega-Voltage CT (MVCT). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mubashara Rehman , Niki Martinel , Michele Avanzo , Riccardo Spizzo , Christian Micheloni

Recent deep learning-based methods have achieved promising performance for computed tomography metal artifact reduction (CTMAR). However, most of them suffer from two limitations: (i) the domain knowledge is not fully embedded into the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Baoshun Shi , Ke Jiang , Shaolei Zhang , Qiusheng Lian , Yanwei Qin

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

Metal artifacts caused by the presence of metallic implants tremendously degrade the reconstructed computed tomography (CT) image quality, affecting clinical diagnosis or reducing the accuracy of organ delineation and dose calculation in…

For the task of metal artifact reduction (MAR), although deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved promising performances, most of them suffer from two problems: 1) the CT imaging geometry constraint is not fully embedded into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Haimiao Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Kai Ma , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

Inspired by the great success of deep neural networks, learning-based methods have gained promising performances for metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) images. However, most of the existing approaches put less…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Hong Wang , Yuexiang Li , Deyu Meng , Yefeng Zheng

The presence of metallic implants often introduces severe metal artifacts in the X-ray CT images, which could adversely influence clinical diagnosis or dose calculation in radiation therapy. In this work, we present a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Lequan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Hongyi Ren , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Metal implants and other high-density objects in patients introduce severe streaking artifacts in CT images, compromising image quality and diagnostic performance. Although various methods were developed for CT metal artifact reduction over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Zilong Li , Qi Gao , Yaping Wu , Chuang Niu , Junping Zhang , Meiyun Wang , Ge Wang , Hongming Shan

Recently, both supervised and unsupervised deep learning methods have been widely applied on the CT metal artifact reduction (MAR) task. Supervised methods such as Dual Domain Network (Du-DoNet) work well on simulation data; however, their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Yuanyuan Lyu , Jiajun Fu , Cheng Peng , S. Kevin Zhou

Metal artifacts, caused by high-density metallic implants in computed tomography (CT) imaging, severely degrade image quality, complicating diagnosis and treatment planning. While existing deep learning algorithms have achieved notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Farid Tasharofi , Fuxin Fan , Melika Qahqaie , Mareike Thies , Andreas Maier

Metal objects pose a significant challenge in cone-beam computed tomography, as their strong and energy-dependent X-ray attenuation leads to inconsistent projections and severe streaking and shading artifacts in reconstructed images. These…

Metal implants can heavily attenuate X-rays in computed tomography (CT) scans, leading to severe artifacts in reconstructed images, which significantly jeopardize image quality and negatively impact subsequent diagnoses and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tao Wang , Wenjun Xia , Yongqiang Huang , Huaiqiang Sun , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Due to the potential risk of inducing cancers, radiation dose of X-ray CT should be reduced for routine patient scanning. However, in low-dose X-ray CT, severe artifacts usually occur due to photon starvation, beamhardening, etc, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Eunhee Kang , Junhong Min , Jong Chul Ye

Spinal surgery planning necessitates automatic segmentation of vertebrae in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), an intraoperative imaging modality that is widely used in intervention. However, CBCT images are of low-quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Yuanyuan Lyu , Haofu Liao , Heqin Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) is often used in clinical applications such as C-arm CT for interventional imaging. However, CT images from limited angles suffers from heavy artifacts due to incomplete projection data. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) utilizes separate X-ray energy spectra to improve multi-material decomposition (MMD) for various diagnostic applications. However accurate decomposing more than two types of material remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Di Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

High density implants such as metals often lead to serious artifacts in the reconstructed CT images which hampers the accuracy of image based diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet frame based CT image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Baodong Liu
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