Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Risa Shigemasa

Jiang Hsieh

Yasuhiro Imai

Bipul Das

Utkarsh Agrawal

Rajesh Veera Venkata Lakshmi Langoju

Rajesh Langoju

Techniques are described for enhancing the quality of three-dimensional (3D) anatomy scan images using deep learning. According to an embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components comprise a reception component that receives a scan image generated from 3D scan data relative to a first axis of a 3D volume, and an enhancement component that applies an enhancement model to the scan image to generate an enhanced scan image having a higher resolution relative to the scan image. The enhancement model comprises a deep learning neural network model trained on training image pairs respectively comprising a low-resolution scan image and a corresponding high-resolution scan image respectively generated relative to a second axis of the 3D volume.

Deep learning-based image quality enhancement of three-dimensional anatomy scan images

Various methods and systems are provided for computed tomography imaging. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, with an x-ray detector and an x-ray source coupled to a gantry, a three-dimensional image volume of a subject while the subject moves through a bore of the gantry and the gantry rotates the x-ray detector and the x-ray source around the subject, inputting the three-dimensional image volume to a trained deep neural network to generate a corrected three-dimensional image volume with a reduction in aliasing artifacts present in the three-dimensional image volume, and outputting the corrected three-dimensional image volume. In this way, aliasing artifacts caused by sub-sampling may be removed from computed tomography images while preserving details, texture, and sharpness in the computed tomography images.

Method and systems for aliasing artifact reduction in computed tomography imaging

Systems/techniques that facilitate machine learning generation of low-noise and high structural conspicuity images are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access an image and can apply at least one of image denoising or image resolution enhancement to the image, thereby yielding a first intermediary image. In various instances, the system can generate, via execution of a plurality of machine learning models, a plurality of second intermediary images based on the first intermediary image, wherein a given machine learning model in the plurality of machine learning models receives as input the first intermediary image, wherein the given machine learning model produces as output a given second intermediary image in the plurality of second intermediary images, and wherein the given second intermediary image represents a kernel-transformed version of the first intermediary image. In various cases, the system can generate a blended image based on the plurality of second intermediary images.

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Risa Shigemasa