Complex relationship between artificial intelligence and CT radiation dose

RV Gupta, MK Kalra, S Ebrahimian, P Kaviani… - Academic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Concerns over need for CT radiation dose optimization and reduction led to improved
scanner efficiency and introduction of several reconstruction techniques and image …

Addressing CT metal artifacts using photon‐counting detectors and one‐step spectral CT image reconstruction

TG Schmidt, BA Sammut, RF Barber, X Pan… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The constrained one‐step spectral CT image reconstruction (cOSSCIR) algorithm
with a nonconvex alternating direction method of multipliers optimizer is proposed for …

Ideal observer computation by use of Markov-chain Monte Carlo with generative adversarial networks

W Zhou, U Villa, MA Anastasio - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical imaging systems are often evaluated and optimized via objective, or task-specific,
measures of image quality (IQ) that quantify the performance of an observer on a specific …

Constrained one‐step material decomposition reconstruction of head CT data from a silicon photon‐counting prototype

TG Schmidt, EY Sidky, X Pan, RF Barber… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Spectral CT material decomposition provides quantitative information but is
challenged by the instability of the inversion into basis materials. We have previously …

Optimizing model observer performance in learning-based CT reconstruction

G Ongie, EY Sidky, IS Reiser… - Medical Imaging 2022 …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Deep neural networks used for reconstructing sparse-view CT data are typically trained by
minimizing a pixel-wise mean-squared error or similar loss function over a set of training …

Enhancing signal detectability in learning-based CT reconstruction with a model observer inspired loss function

M Lantz, EY Sidky, IS Reiser, X Pan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep neural networks used for reconstructing sparse-view CT data are typically trained by
minimizing a pixel-wise mean-squared error or similar loss function over a set of training …

Visualization of the distortion induced by nonlinear noise reduction in computed tomography

J Larsson, M Båth… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose We developed a method to visualize the image distortion induced by nonlinear
noise reduction algorithms in computed tomography (CT) systems. Approach Nonlinear …

A hybrid channelized Hotelling observer for estimating the ideal linear observer for total-variation-based image reconstruction

JP Phillips, EY Sidky, G Ongie, W Zhou… - Medical Imaging …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this work, we focus on developing a channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) that estimates
ideal linear observer performance on signal detection in images resulting from non-linear …

Investigation of different model observers for including signal-detectability in the training of CNNs for CT image reconstruction

G Ongie, M Lantz, EY Sidky… - Medical Imaging 2024 …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Recent studies have proposed methods to preserve and enhance signal-detection
performance in learning-based CT reconstruction with CNNs. Prior work has focused on …

[HTML][HTML] Ingrid Reiser

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Dr. Reiser is a clinical Medical Physicist and Associate Professor of Radiology and the
Committee on Medical Physics. She is board-certified in diagnostic medical physics. Her …