A comprehensive survey on impulse and Gaussian denoising filters for digital images

M Mafi, H Martin, M Cabrerizo, J Andrian, A Barreto… - Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
This review article provides a comprehensive survey on state-of-the-art impulse and
Gaussian denoising filters applied to images and summarizes the progress that has been …

Cone beam CT: a current overview of devices

A Nemtoi, C Czink, D Haba… - Dentomaxillofacial …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to review and compare the properties of all the available cone
beam CT (CBCT) devices offered on the market, while focusing especially on Europe. In this …

Quality assurance for image‐guided radiation therapy utilizing CT‐based technologies: a report of the AAPM TG‐179

JP Bissonnette, PA Balter, L Dong, KM Langen… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Commercial CT‐based image‐guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems allow
widespread management of geometric variations in patient setup and internal organ motion …

Penalized weighted least-squares approach to sinogram noise reduction and image reconstruction for low-dose X-ray computed tomography

J Wang, T Li, H Lu, Z Liang - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconstructing low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) images is a noise problem. This
work investigated a penalized weighted least-squares (PWLS) approach to address this …

Breast cancer imaging: a perspective for the next decade

A Karellas, S Vedantham - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Breast imaging is largely indicated for detection, diagnosis, and clinical management of
breast cancer and for evaluation of the integrity of breast implants. In this work, a prospective …

Penalized weighted least-squares image reconstruction for dual energy X-ray transmission tomography

P Sukovic, NH Clinthorne - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presents a dual-energy (DE) transmission computed tomography (CT) reconstruction
method. It is statistically motivated and features nonnegativity constraints in the density …

Computed tomography for imaging the breast

JM Boone, ALC Kwan, K Yang, GW Burkett… - Journal of mammary …, 2006 - Springer
Despite the success of screening mammography contributing to the reduction of cancer
mortality, a number of other imaging techniques are being studied for breast cancer …

Evaluation of x‐ray scatter properties in a dedicated cone‐beam breast CT scanner

ALC Kwan, JM Boone, N Shah - Medical physics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of scatter contamination on a first‐generation prototype breast computed
tomography (CT) scanner was evaluated using the scatter‐to‐primary ratio (SPR) metric …

Sinogram noise reduction for low-dose CT by statistics-based nonlinear filters

J Wang, H Lu, T Li, Z Liang - Medical Imaging 2005: Image …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Low-dose CT (computed tomography) sinogram data have been shown to be signal-
dependent with an analytical relationship between the sample mean and sample variance …

Dose reduction for kilovotage cone-beam computed tomography in radiation therapy

J Wang, T Li, Z Liang, L Xing - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Kilovotage cone-beam computed tomography (kV-CBCT) has shown potentials to improve
the accuracy of a patient setup in radiotherapy. However, daily and repeated use of CBCT …