arXiv Computer Vision

VoxelSynth3D: Interpretable Volumetric Image-Domain Metal Artifact Reduction with a Paired Synthetic CLINIC-Metal Benchmark

VoxelSynth3D is a training‑free 3D image‑domain framework that reduces metal artifacts in postoperative musculoskeletal CT by combining support masking, normalized tissue synthesis, deviation gating, and restricted edge refinement. The method preserves implant voxels while correcting surrounding tissue artifacts and was evaluated on a newly constructed Synthetic CLINIC‑Metal benchmark, showing a reduction in RMSE from 801.48 to 786.18 HU on 40 held‑out cases. Compared to a 3D Gaussian smoother, VoxelSynth3D achieved a 13.58 HU improvement and maintained clean-edge agreement beyond 5 mm from metal.

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Aug 13

Splat-based Metal Artifact Reduction in Cone-Beam CT via Polychromatic Modeling

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) enables volumetric reconstruction from X-ray projections, but suffers from severe artifacts--especially beam hardening--when imaging materials with high attenuation such as metals. These artifacts arise from the polychromatic nature of X-rays and are not properly addressed by conventional monochromatic reconstruction algorithms.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Efficient 3D Whole-Body PET Image Denoising via Conditional Rectified Flow With Optimized Sampling Strategy

The paper introduces a one‑pass conditional 3D rectified flow (3D Flow) framework for denoising whole‑body PET images, employing an optimized non‑uniform sampling strategy and a linear‑interpolant velocity‑matching objective. It reconstructs a full 3D volume in about 30 seconds, dramatically faster than multi‑hour 3D diffusion models, while maintaining high global image quality and lesion conspicuity even at ultra‑low doses (down to 1/100 of standard). Zero‑shot transfer tests on independent clinical data demonstrate robust performance across datasets and unseen dose levels.

By Jiale Shen, Guolin Wang, Chenhao Wang, Xinhui Su, Wei Luo, Feng Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Deep Slice Interpolation for Reducing Through-Plane Anisotropy and Noise in Head CT

arXiv:2606. 09953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Head computed tomography (CT) typically uses sub-millimeter in-plane resolution but 2-5 mm through-plane spacing, creating substantial anisotropy that degrades multiplanar reconstructions, volumetric measurements such as hematoma volume estimation, and downstream algorithms that assume near-isotropic voxels.

By Luis Cort\'es Ferre, Miguel A. Guti\'errez-Naranjo, Marcin Balcerzyk
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

$K$-NeAS: Scalable Multi-Material CT Reconstruction Using Neural SDFs

The paper introduces $K$-NeAS, a scalable neural architecture for multi-material CT reconstruction that replaces separate material networks with a shared latent backbone and a differentiable $K$-material soft selector. It automates attenuation bounds using a Gaussian Mixture Model and adds a scheduled auxiliary floater loss to reduce geometric hallucinations in sparse-view settings. Evaluated on four clinical CBCT datasets, $K$-NeAS achieves higher 3D volumetric fidelity—up to a 1.88 dB PSNR gain over a single-material baseline—and shows improved robustness under extreme sparsity, outperforming baselines by up to 1.17 dB.

By Daksh K. Shah, Emmanouil Nikolakakis, Razvan Marinescu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

When Misalignment Becomes Supervision: Structured Label Noise in Supervised Synthetic CT Generation

The paper examines how residual misalignments from registration procedures introduce structured label noise in supervised synthetic CT (sCT) generation. It shows that voxel‑wise metrics are heavily influenced by the consistency between training and evaluation registrations, and that training with anatomically consistent registrations reduces variability and improves robustness. Introducing a perceptual loss based on a pretrained Segment Anything encoder yields sharper, more anatomically coherent sCT and highlights the need for anatomy‑oriented evaluation.

By Valentin Boussot, Cedric Hemon, Caroline Lafond, Jean-Claude Nunes, Jean-Louis Dillenseger
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Anatomy-Decomposed Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Projections as Scalable Supervision for Bone Suppression in Chest Radiographs

arXiv:2609.24937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bone overlap can obscure abnormalities in chest radiographs, while scarce paired training data limit supervised bone suppression. We address this chall...

By Mrunmay Angaitkar, Piyush Kumar, Aarjav Satia, Pranav Rao, Ashish Mittal, Manoj Tadepalli, Preetham Putha