no code implementations • 10 Oct 2023 • Wenjun Xia, Yongyi Shi, Chuang Niu, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation.
no code implementations • 22 Mar 2023 • Wenjun Xia, Hsin Wu Tseng, Chuang Niu, Wenxiang Cong, Xiaohua Zhang, Shaohua Liu, Ruola Ning, Srinivasan Vedantham, Ge Wang
Specifically, in this study we transform the cutting-edge Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) into a parallel framework for sub-volume-based sparse-view breast CT image reconstruction in projection and image domains.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Wenjun Xia, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
A DDPM network based on patches extracted from fully sampled projection data is trained and then used to inpaint down-sampled projection data.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2021 • Yuxuan Liang, Chuang Niu, Chen Wei, Shenghan Ren, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
The phase function is a key element of a light propagation model for Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, which is usually fitted with an analytic function with associated parameters.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2020 • Ti Bai, Biling Wang, Dan Nguyen, Bao Wang, Bin Dong, Wenxiang Cong, Mannudeep K. Kalra, Steve Jiang
However, there exists two challenges regarding the DL-based denoisers: 1) a trained model typically does not generate different image candidates with different noise-resolution tradeoffs which sometimes are needed for different clinical tasks; 2) the model generalizability might be an issue when the noise level in the testing images is different from that in the training dataset.
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2020 • Weiwen Wu, Dianlin Hu, Wenxiang Cong, Hongming Shan, Shao-Yu Wang, Chuang Niu, Pingkun Yan, Hengyong Yu, Varut Vardhanabhuti, Ge Wang
ACID synergizes a deep reconstruction network trained on big data, kernel awareness from CS-inspired processing, and iterative refinement to minimize the data residual relative to real measurement.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2020 • Chuang Niu, Wenxiang Cong, Fenglei Fan, Hongming Shan, Mengzhou Li, Jimin Liang, Ge Wang
Deep neural network based methods have achieved promising results for CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), most of which use many synthesized paired images for training.
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2019 • Huidong Xie, Hongming Shan, Wenxiang Cong, Chi Liu, Xiaohua Zhang, Shaohua Liu, Ruola Ning, Ge Wang
Breast CT provides image volumes with isotropic resolution in high contrast, enabling detection of small calcification (down to a few hundred microns in size) and subtle density differences.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Wenxiang Cong, Hongming Shan, Xiaohua Zhang, Shaohua Liu, Ruola Ning, Ge Wang
In this study, we propose a deep-learning-based method to establish a residual neural network model for the image reconstruction, which is applied for few-view breast CT to produce high quality breast CT images.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Huidong Xie, Hongming Shan, Wenxiang Cong, Xiaohua Zhang, Shaohua Liu, Ruola Ning, Ge Wang
Few-view CT image reconstruction is an important topic to reduce the radiation dose.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2018 • Chenyu You, Guang Li, Yi Zhang, Xiaoliu Zhang, Hongming Shan, Shenghong Ju, Zhen Zhao, Zhuiyang Zhang, Wenxiang Cong, Michael W. Vannier, Punam K. Saha, Ge Wang
Specifically, with the generative adversarial network (GAN) as the building block, we enforce the cycle-consistency in terms of the Wasserstein distance to establish a nonlinear end-to-end mapping from noisy LR input images to denoised and deblurred HR outputs.
no code implementations • 2 May 2018 • Chenyu You, Qingsong Yang, Hongming Shan, Lars Gjesteby, Guang Li, Shenghong Ju, Zhuiyang Zhang, Zhen Zhao, Yi Zhang, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
However, the radiation dose reduction compromises the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), leading to strong noise and artifacts that down-grade CT image quality.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2018 • Hongming Shan, Yi Zhang, Qingsong Yang, Uwe Kruger, Mannudeep K. Kalra, Ling Sun, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
Based on the transfer learning from 2D to 3D, the 3D network converges faster and achieves a better denoising performance than that trained from scratch.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2017 • Fenglei Fan, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
The artificial neural network is a popular framework in machine learning.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2017 • Fenglei Fan, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang
Here we investigate the possibility of replacing the inner product with a quadratic function of the input vector, thereby upgrading the 1st order neuron to the 2nd order neuron, empowering individual neurons, and facilitating the optimization of neural networks.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2017 • Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang, Qingsong Yang, Jiang Hsieh, Jia Li, Rongjie Lai
In this paper, we propose a CT image reconstruction method based on the prior knowledge of the low-dimensional manifold of CT image.