AIMC Topic: Radiography, Dual-Energy Scanned Projection

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Evaluating renal lesions using deep-learning based extension of dual-energy FoV in dual-source CT-A retrospective pilot study.

European journal of radiology
PURPOSE: Dual-source (DS) CT, dual-energy (DE) field of view (FoV) is limited to the size of the smaller detector array. The purpose was to establish a deep learning-based approach to DE extrapolation by estimating missing image data using data from ...

Noise reduction approach in pediatric abdominal CT combining deep learning and dual-energy technique.

European radiology
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the image quality of low iodine concentration, dual-energy CT (DECT) combined with a deep learning-based noise reduction technique for pediatric abdominal CT, compared with standard iodine concentration single-energy polychrom...

Liver lesion localisation and classification with convolutional neural networks: a comparison between conventional and spectral computed tomography.

Biomedical physics & engineering express
PURPOSE: To evaluate the benefit of the additional available information present in spectral CT datasets, as compared to conventional CT datasets, when utilizing convolutional neural networks for fully automatic localisation and classification of liv...

Automatic multi-organ segmentation in dual-energy CT (DECT) with dedicated 3D fully convolutional DECT networks.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential in many clinical applications. By incorporating the information from two different energy spectra, DECT provides higher contrast and reveals more material differences of tissue...

Deep learning-based virtual noncontrast CT for volumetric modulated arc therapy planning: Comparison with a dual-energy CT-based approach.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to develop a deep learning (DL) method for generating virtual noncontrast (VNC) computed tomography (CT) images from contrast-enhanced (CE) CT images (VNC ) and to evaluate its performance in dose calculations for h...

Conversion of single-energy CT to parametric maps of dual-energy CT using convolutional neural network.

The British journal of radiology
OBJECTIVES: We propose a deep learning (DL) multitask learning framework using convolutional neural network for a direct conversion of single-energy CT (SECT) to 3 different parametric maps of dual-energy CT (DECT): virtual-monochromatic image (VMI),...

Performance evaluation of deep learning image reconstruction algorithm for dual-energy spectral CT imaging: A phantom study.

Journal of X-ray science and technology
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm in dual-energy spectral CT (DEsCT) as a function of radiation dose and image energy level, in comparison with filtered-back-projection (FBP) and adaptive s...

Multi-material decomposition of spectral CT images via Fully Convolutional DenseNets.

Journal of X-ray science and technology
BACKGROUND: Spectral computed tomography (CT) has the capability to resolve the energy levels of incident photons, which has the potential to distinguish different material compositions. Although material decomposition methods based on x-ray attenuat...