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most citedLow-Dose CT with a Residual Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network (RED-CNN)

1.9k citations · 4.9k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CV2025

X-WIN: Building Chest Radiograph World Model via Predictive Sensing

Zefan Yang, Ge Wang, James Hendler +2

Chest X-ray radiography (CXR) is an essential medical imaging technique for disease diagnosis. However, as 2D projectional images, CXRs are limited by structural superposition and…

eess.IV2025

Xray2Xray: World Model from Chest X-rays with Volumetric Context

Zefan Yang, Xinrui Song, Xuanang Xu +4

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are the most widely used medical imaging modality and play a pivotal role in diagnosing diseases. However, as 2D projection images, CXRs are limited by structur…

eess.IV2025

Chest X-ray Foundation Model with Global and Local Representations Integration

Zefan Yang, Xuanang Xu, Jiajin Zhang +3

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most frequently ordered imaging test, supporting diverse clinical tasks from thoracic disease detection to postoperative monitoring. However, task-specific…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating Automated Radiology Report Quality through Fine-Grained Phrasal Grounding of Clinical Findings

Razi Mahmood, Pingkun Yan, Diego Machado Reyes +5

Several evaluation metrics have been developed recently to automatically assess the quality of generative AI reports for chest radiographs based only on textual information using l…

cs.AI2024

Development and Validation of a Large Language Model for Generating Fully-Structured Radiology Reports

Chuang Niu, Md Sayed Tanveer, Md Zabirul Islam +5

Current LLMs for creating fully-structured reports face the challenges of formatting errors, content hallucinations, and privacy leakage issues when uploading data to external serv…

cs.CV2024

Explaining Chest X-ray Pathology Models using Textual Concepts

Vijay Sadashivaiah, Pingkun Yan, James A. Hendler

Deep learning models have revolutionized medical imaging and diagnostics, yet their opaque nature poses challenges for clinical adoption and trust. Amongst approaches to improve mo…

eess.IV2024

A Deep Learning System for Rapid and Accurate Warning of Acute Aortic Syndrome on Non-contrast CT in China

Yujian Hu, Yilang Xiang, Yan-Jie Zhou +41

The accurate and timely diagnosis of acute aortic syndromes (AAS) in patients presenting with acute chest pain remains a clinical challenge. Aortic CT angiography (CTA) is the imag…

eess.IV2024

Cardiovascular Disease Detection from Multi-View Chest X-rays with BI-Mamba

Zefan Yang, Jiajin Zhang, Ge Wang +2

Accurate prediction of Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in medical imaging is central to effective patient health management. Previous studies have demonstrated that imaging featu…

cs.CV2024

Disease-informed Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

Jiajin Zhang, Ge Wang, Mannudeep K. Kalra +1

In medical image analysis, the expertise scarcity and the high cost of data annotation limits the development of large artificial intelligence models. This paper investigates the p…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Specialty-Oriented Generalist Medical AI for Chest CT Screening

Chuang Niu, Qing Lyu, Christopher D. Carothers +6

Modern medical records include a vast amount of multimodal free text clinical data and imaging data from radiology, cardiology, and digital pathology. Fully mining such big data re…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

X-ray Dissectography Improves Lung Nodule Detection

Chuang Niu, Giridhar Dasegowda, Pingkun Yan +2

Although radiographs are the most frequently used worldwide due to their cost-effectiveness and widespread accessibility, the structural superposition along the x-ray paths often r…

eess.IV2021★ 3 cited

AI-Enabled Ultra-Low-Dose CT Reconstruction

Weiwen Wu, Chuang Niu, Shadi Ebrahimian +3

By the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle, ultra-low-dose CT reconstruction is a holy grail to minimize cancer risks and genetic damages, especially for children. Wi…

eess.IV2020

Deep Interactive Denoiser (DID) for X-Ray Computed Tomography

Ti Bai, Biling Wang, Dan Nguyen +5

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for both diagnostic imaging and image guided interventions. Denoisers are openly used to improve the quality of LDCT. Deep learning…

eess.IV2020★ 86 cited

Deep Metric Learning-based Image Retrieval System for Chest Radiograph and its Clinical Applications in COVID-19

Aoxiao Zhong, Xiang Li, Dufan Wu +17

In recent years, deep learning-based image analysis methods have been widely applied in computer-aided detection, diagnosis and prognosis, and has shown its value during the public…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Deep Learning-based Four-region Lung Segmentation in Chest Radiography for COVID-19 Diagnosis

Young-Gon Kim, Kyungsang Kim, Dufan Wu +10

Purpose. Imaging plays an important role in assessing severity of COVID 19 pneumonia. However, semantic interpretation of chest radiography (CXR) findings does not include quantita…

eess.IV2020★ 102 cited

Deep Learning Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Risks from Lung Cancer Screening Low Dose Computed Tomography

Hanqing Chao, Hongming Shan, Fatemeh Homayounieh +7

Cancer patients have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality than the general population. Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) for lung cancer screening offers an op…

eess.IV2020

Quantifying and Leveraging Predictive Uncertainty for Medical Image Assessment

Florin C. Ghesu, Bogdan Georgescu, Awais Mansoor +11

The interpretation of medical images is a challenging task, often complicated by the presence of artifacts, occlusions, limited contrast and more. Most notable is the case of chest…

eess.IV2020

Integrative Analysis for COVID-19 Patient Outcome Prediction

Hanqing Chao, Xi Fang, Jiajin Zhang +13

While image analysis of chest computed tomography (CT) for COVID-19 diagnosis has been intensively studied, little work has been performed for image-based patient outcome predictio…

eess.IV2020★ 42 cited

CovidCTNet: An Open-Source Deep Learning Approach to Identify Covid-19 Using CT Image

Tahereh Javaheri, Morteza Homayounfar, Zohreh Amoozgar +19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is highly contagious with limited treatment options. Early and accurate diagnosis of Covid-19 is crucial in reducing the spread of the disease a…

physics.med-ph2019★ 82 cited

A Method of Rapid Quantification of Patient-Specific Organ Dose for CT Using Coupled Deep-Learning based Multi-Organ Segmentation and GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo Dose Computing

Zhao Peng, Xi Fang, Pingkun Yan +7

Purpose: This paper describes a new method to apply deep-learning algorithms for automatic segmentation of radiosensitive organs from 3D tomographic CT images before computing orga…

cs.CV2019

Quantifying and Leveraging Classification Uncertainty for Chest Radiograph Assessment

Florin C. Ghesu, Bogdan Georgescu, Eli Gibson +6

The interpretation of chest radiographs is an essential task for the detection of thoracic diseases and abnormalities. However, it is a challenging problem with high inter-rater va…

cs.CV2019★ 38 cited

Knowledge-based Analysis for Mortality Prediction from CT Images

Hengtao Guo, Uwe Kruger, Ge Wang +2

Recent studies have highlighted the high correlation between cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and lung cancer, and both are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Low-Do…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Quadratic Autoencoder (Q-AE) for Low-dose CT Denoising

Fenglei Fan, Hongming Shan, Mannudeep K. Kalra +6

Inspired by complexity and diversity of biological neurons, our group proposed quadratic neurons by replacing the inner product in current artificial neurons with a quadratic opera…

cs.CV2018★ 427 cited

Can Deep Learning Outperform Modern Commercial CT Image Reconstruction Methods?

Hongming Shan, Atul Padole, Fatemeh Homayounieh +5

Commercial iterative reconstruction techniques on modern CT scanners target radiation dose reduction but there are lingering concerns over their impact on image appearance and low…