Quantitative evaluation of deep convolutional neural network-based image denoising for low-dose computed tomography

K Usui, K Ogawa, M Goto, Y Sakano… - Visual Computing for …, 2021 - Springer
To minimize radiation risk, dose reduction is important in the diagnostic and therapeutic
applications of computed tomography (CT). However, image noise degrades image quality …

Ultralow‐parameter denoising: trainable bilateral filter layers in computed tomography

F Wagner, M Thies, M Gu, Y Huang… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Computed tomography (CT) is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three‐
dimensional structures with expressive bone‐soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution …

A spectral CT denoising algorithm based on weighted block matching 3D filtering

M Salehjahromi, Y Zhang, H Yu - Developments in X-Ray …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In spectral CT, an energy-resolving detector is capable of counting the number of received
photons in different energy channels with appropriate post-processing steps. Because the …

An unsupervised two‐step training framework for low‐dose computed tomography denoising

W Kim, J Lee, JH Choi - Medical Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Although low‐dose computed tomography (CT) imaging has been more widely
adopted in clinical practice to reduce radiation exposure to patients, the reconstructed CT …

Sharpness-aware low-dose CT denoising using conditional generative adversarial network

X Yi, P Babyn - Journal of digital imaging, 2018 - Springer
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation-
restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of …

Low-dose CT image denoising using parallel-clone networks

S Li, G Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06724, 2020 - arxiv.org
Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose
computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include …

PIMA-CT: Physical Model-Aware Cyclic Simulation and Denoising for Ultra-Low-Dose CT Restoration

P Liu, L Xu, G Fullerton, Y Xiao, JB Nguyen, Z Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A body of studies has proposed to obtain high-quality images from low-dose and noisy
Computed Tomography (CT) scans for radiation reduction. However, these studies are …

Self supervised low dose computed tomography image denoising using invertible network exploiting inter slice congruence

S Bera, PK Biswas - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF winter …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The resurgence of deep neural networks has created an alternative pathway for low-dose
computed tomography denoising by learning a nonlinear transformation function between …

Low-dose CT denoising via sinogram inner-structure transformer

L Yang, Z Li, R Ge, J Zhao, H Si… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) technique, which reduces the radiation harm to
human bodies, is now attracting increasing interest in the medical imaging field. As the …

Inter-slice consistency for unpaired low-dose CT denoising using boosted contrastive learning

J Jing, T Wang, H Yu, Z Lu, Y Zhang - International Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
The research field of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) denoising is primarily
dominated by supervised learning-based approaches, which necessitate the accurate …