AI-Enhanced Hybrid Optimization and Deep Network Architecture for Noise Reduction in Low-Dose Medical Imaging
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is a significant non-invasive imaging modality for disease diagnosis in early stages and clinical oncology. However, the reduction of radiation dose unavoidably introduces severe quantum noise, photon starvation and Poisson-Gaussian noise, which degrade contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR)...