Online updating of context-aware landmark detectors for prostate localization in daily treatment CT images: Online updating of context-aware landmark detectors in daily treatment CT images

In image guided radiation therapy, it is crucial to fast and accurately localize the prostate in the daily treatment images. To this end, the authors propose an online update scheme for landmark-guided prostate segmentation, which can fully exploit valuable patient-specific information contained in the previous treatment images and can achieve improved performance in landmark detection and prostate segmentation

Automatic Identification of Relationship between Tooth Root and Mandibular Canal Based on One Step Deep Neural Network

To improve the accuracy and efficiency of identifying the relationship between the root of the impacted mandibular third molar (M3M) and the mandibular canal in panoramic radiographs, we proposed an automatic method based on a deep convolutional neural network. This method treats the automatic identification of the relationship between the root of the M3M and the mandibular canal as a combination of regression and classification tasks. It uses the YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once) network as a framework for constructing a deep convolutional neural network that can accomplish detection and classification tasks simultaneously. This network, which takes the spatial relationship information extracted from the corresponding cone-beam CT images as the ground-truth, was trained to learn the nonlinear relationship between image features and the root of the M3M contacting the mandibular canal. When inputting a newly acquired panoramic radiograph into the trained network, the network will output the probability value for the root of the M3M contacting the mandibular canal. In the meantime, the region that includes the root of the M3M contacting the mandibular canal can be predicted. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide an accurate judgment of whether the roots of impacted mandibular wisdom teeth in the panoramic radiographs are in contact with the mandibular canal and the location of regions in which the roots of the M3M are in contact with the mandibular canals; compared to manual diagnosis and the other methods, the proposed method can obtain more accurate results

Reconstruction of tomographic images from limited range projections using discrete Radon transform and Tchebichef moments

International audienceThis paper presents an image reconstruction method for X-ray tomography from limited range projections. It makes use of the discrete Radon transform and a set of discrete orthogonal Tchebichef polynomials to define the projection moments and the image moments. By establishing the relationship between these two sets of moments, we show how to estimate the unknown projections from known projections in order to improve the image reconstruction. Simulation results are provided in order to validate the method and to compare its performance with some existing algorithms

Coded Aperture Computed Tomography Via Generative Adversarial U-net

Generative adversarial U-net for coded aperture computed tomography (CT) is proposed in this paper to alleviate the tradeoff between the non-continuous sparse projections and the ill-posedness iterative reconstruction problem. A non-continuous sparse projection model is presented based on generative adversarial U-net and the corresponding joint penalty function is formulated. Simulations using real datasets show that CT images with 256×256 pixels can be reconstructed with peak signal-to-noise ration more than 30 dB at only 5% transmittance. Furthermore, the computational time in the reconstructions is reduced by two orders of magnitude when compared with the state-of-the-art iterative algorithms in coded aperture computed tomography