Impact of loss functions on the performance of a deep neural network designed to restore low-dose digital mammography

H Shan, RB Vimieiro, LR Borges, MAC Vieira… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital mammography is currently the most common imaging tool for breast cancer
screening. Although the benefits of using digital mammography for cancer screening …

Noise models for virtual clinical trials of digital breast tomosynthesis

LR Borges, B Barufaldi, RF Caron, PR Bakic… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To investigate the use of an affine‐variance noise model, with correlated quantum
noise and spatially dependent quantum gain, for the simulation of noise in virtual clinical …

Modeling and estimation of signal-dependent and correlated noise

L Azzari, LR Borges, A Foi - Denoising of Photographic Images and Video …, 2018 - Springer
The additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) model is ubiquitous in signal processing. This
model is often justified by central-limit theorem (CLT) arguments. However, whereas the CLT …

基于Anscombe 变换的X 射线图像序列盲源分离降噪

沈帆, 李翰林, 孙斌, 喻春雨 - Optics and Precision Engineering, 2020 - opticsjournal.net
摘要为降低泊松噪声对X 射线图像质量的影响, 本研究提出一种采用非线性主分量分析(NLPCA)
对X 射线图像序列进行盲源分离的降噪方法. 该降噪方法首先采样一序列X 射线图像 …

Evaluation of denoising digital breast tomosynthesis data in both projection and image domains and a study of noise model on digital breast tomosynthesis image …

DC Scarparo, DHP Salvadeo… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is an imaging technique created to visualize 3-D
mammary structures for the purpose of diagnosing breast cancer. This imaging technique is …

Effect of denoising on the localization of microcalcification clusters in digital mammography

LR Borges, RF Caron… - … Workshop on Breast …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Noise negatively impacts the detection and characterization of lesions in mammography.
While denoising filters may be used to suppress noise, they might also negatively affect the …

Assessing the impact of correlated noise in digital mammography: a virtual clinical trial

LE Soares, RF Brandao, LR Borges… - Medical Imaging …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In digital mammography, the physics of the acquisition system and post-processing
algorithms can cause image noise to be spatially correlated. Noise correlation is …

Assessment of training strategies for convolutional neural network to restore low-dose digital breast tomosynthesis projections

R de Barros Vimieiro, LR Borges… - … 2022: Physics of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We investigate the effects of training strategies, such as the dataset size, early stop and
cross-validation, on the performance of deep neural network. We used the residual network …

Convolutional neural network to restore low-dose digital breast tomosynthesis projections in a variance stabilization domain

RB Vimieiro, C Niu, H Shan, LR Borges… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams should utilize the lowest possible radiation dose
while maintaining sufficiently good image quality for accurate medical diagnosis. In this …

Data-driven estimation of noise variance stabilization parameters for low-dose x-ray images

SG Hariharan, N Strobel, C Kaethner… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose. Denoising x-ray images corrupted by signal-dependent mixed noise is usually
approached either by considering noise statistics directly or by using noise variance …