[HTML][HTML] The evolution of image reconstruction for CT—from filtered back projection to artificial intelligence

MJ Willemink, PB Noël - European radiology, 2019 - Springer
The first CT scanners in the early 1970s already used iterative reconstruction algorithms;
however, lack of computational power prevented their clinical use. In fact, it took until 2009 …

Metal artifact reduction in CT: where are we after four decades?

L Gjesteby, B De Man, Y Jin, H Paganetti… - Ieee …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Methods to overcome metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images have been
researched and developed for nearly 40 years. When X-rays pass through a metal object …

Domain progressive 3D residual convolution network to improve low-dose CT imaging

X Yin, Q Zhao, J Liu, W Yang, J Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wide applications of X-ray computed tomography (CT) bring low-dose CT (LDCT) into a
clinical prerequisite, but reducing the radiation exposure in CT often leads to significantly …

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 …

Artificial intelligence in image reconstruction: the change is here

R Singh, W Wu, G Wang, MK Kalra - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Innovations in CT have been impressive among imaging and medical technologies in both
the hardware and software domain. The range and speed of CT scanning improved from the …

DICDNet: deep interpretable convolutional dictionary network for metal artifact reduction in CT images

H Wang, Y Li, N He, K Ma, D Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computed tomography (CT) images are often impaired by unfavorable artifacts caused by
metallic implants within patients, which would adversely affect the subsequent clinical …

Joint reconstruction of multi-channel, spectral CT data via constrained total nuclear variation minimization

DS Rigie, PJ La Riviere - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the use of the recently proposed'total nuclear variation'(TV N) as a regularizer for
reconstructing multi-channel, spectral CT images. This convex penalty is a natural extension …

Discriminative feature representation to improve projection data inconsistency for low dose CT imaging

J Liu, J Ma, Y Zhang, Y Chen, J Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In low dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging, the data inconsistency of measured
noisy projections can significantly deteriorate reconstruction images. To deal with this …

Regularized three-dimensional generative adversarial nets for unsupervised metal artifact reduction in head and neck CT images

M Nakao, K Imanishi, N Ueda, Y Imai, T Kirita… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reduction of metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images, specifically for strong
artifacts generated from multiple metal objects, is a challenging issue in medical imaging …

C-arm orbits for metal artifact avoidance (MAA) in cone-beam CT

P Wu, N Sheth, A Sisniega, A Uneri… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Metal artifacts present a challenge to cone-beam CT (CBCT) image-guided surgery,
obscuring visualization of metal instruments and adjacent anatomy—often in the very region …