Combined iterative reconstruction and image‐domain decomposition for dual energy CT using total‐variation regularization

X Dong, T Niu, L Zhu - Medical physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Dual‐energy CT (DECT) is being increasingly used for its capability of material
decomposition and energy‐selective imaging. A generic problem of DECT, however, is that …

Constrained Minimization for Enhanced Exploitation of Gradient Sparsity: Application to CT Image Reconstruction

EY Sidky, R Chartrand, JM Boone… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting sparsity in the image gradient magnitude has proved to be an effective means for
reducing the sampling rate in the projection view angle in computed tomography (CT). Most …

Probabilistic self‐learning framework for low‐dose CT denoising

T Bai, B Wang, D Nguyen, S Jiang - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite the indispensable role of x‐ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic
medicine, the associated harmful ionizing radiation dose is a major concern, as it may cause …

Effects of sparse sampling schemes on image quality in low‐dose CT

S Abbas, T Lee, S Shin, R Lee, S Cho - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Various scanning methods and image reconstruction algorithms are actively
investigated for low‐dose computed tomography (CT) that can potentially reduce a health …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dose computed tomography image reconstruction via a multistage convolutional neural network with autoencoder perceptual loss network

Q Li, S Li, R Li, W Wu, Y Dong, J Zhao… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in medical diagnoses due to its
ability to non-invasively detect the internal structures of the human body. However, CT scans …

On the data acquisition, image reconstruction, cone beam artifacts, and their suppression in axial MDCT and CBCT–a review

X Tang, EA Krupinski, H Xie, AE Stillman - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In the clinic, computed tomography (CT) has evolved into an essential modality for
diagnostic imaging by multidetector row CT (MDCT) and image guided intervention by cone …

Z-index parameterization for volumetric CT image reconstruction via 3-D dictionary learning

T Bai, H Yan, X Jia, S Jiang, G Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the rapid developments of X-ray cone-beam CT (CBCT), image noise still remains a
major issue for the low dose CBCT. To suppress the noise effectively while retain the …

Accelerated fast iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithms for sparsity‐regularized cone‐beam CT image reconstruction

Q Xu, D Yang, J Tan, A Sawatzky… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The development of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for cone‐beam
computed tomography (CBCT) remains an active and important research area. Even with …

Medical imaging synthesis using deep learning and its clinical applications: A review

T Wang, Y Lei, Y Fu, WJ Curran, T Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper reviewed the deep learning-based studies for medical imaging synthesis and its
clinical application. Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of deep learning …

Single-scan dual-energy CT using primary modulation

M Petrongolo, L Zhu - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compared with conventional computed tomography (CT), dual-energy CT (DECT) provides
better material differentiation but requires projection data acquired with two different effective …