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 with improving WGAN and hybrid loss function

Z Li, W Shi, Q Xing, Y Miao, W He… - … Methods in Medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The X‐ray radiation from computed tomography (CT) brought us the potential risk. Simply
decreasing the dose makes the CT images noisy and diagnostic performance compromised …

Image denoising for low-dose CT via convolutional dictionary learning and neural network

R Yan, Y Liu, Y Liu, L Wang, R Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Removing noise and artifacts from low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is a challenging
task, and most existing image-based algorithms tend to blur the results. To improve the …

A cascaded convolutional neural network for x-ray low-dose CT image denoising

D Wu, K Kim, GE Fakhri, Q Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04267, 2017 - arxiv.org
Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis
reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising …

Low-dose CT image denoising using a generative adversarial network with Wasserstein distance and perceptual loss

Q Yang, P Yan, Y Zhang, H Yu, Y Shi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The continuous development and extensive use of computed tomography (CT) in medical
practice has raised a public concern over the associated radiation dose to the patient …

Structurally-sensitive multi-scale deep neural network for low-dose CT denoising

C You, Q Yang, H Shan, L Gjesteby, G Li, S Ju… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computed tomography (CT) is a popular medical imaging modality and enjoys wide clinical
applications. At the same time, the X-ray radiation dose associated with CT scannings raises …

Deep learning for low-dose CT denoising using perceptual loss and edge detection layer

M Gholizadeh-Ansari, J Alirezaie, P Babyn - Journal of digital imaging, 2020 - Springer
Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers.
Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT …

SACNN: Self-attention convolutional neural network for low-dose CT denoising with self-supervised perceptual loss network

M Li, W Hsu, X Xie, J Cong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used screening and diagnostic tool that allows
clinicians to obtain a high-resolution, volumetric image of internal structures in a non …

Investigation of low-dose CT image denoising using unpaired deep learning methods

Z Li, S Zhou, J Huang, L Yu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is desired due to prevalence and ionizing radiation
of CT, but suffers elevated noise. To improve LDCT image quality, an image-domain …

CT image denoising with perceptive deep neural networks

Q Yang, P Yan, MK Kalra, G Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07019, 2017 - arxiv.org
Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated
radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and …