Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Utkarsh Agrawal

Bipul Das

Jiang Hsieh

Yasuhiro Imai

Rajesh Veera Venkata Lakshmi Langoju

Risa Shigemasa

Gopal Biligeri Avinash

Rakesh Mullick

Krishna Seetharam Shriram

Vikram Reddy Melapudi

Ravi Soni

Tao Tan

Sohan Rashmi Ranjan

Bhushan Dayaram Patil

Zita Herczeg

Máté Fejes

Rajesh Langoju

Barbara Darázs

Dániel Attila Szabó

László Ruskó

Prasad Sudhakara Murthy

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

Techniques are described for generating mono-modality training image data from multi-modality image data and using the mono-modality training image data to train and develop mono-modality image inferencing models. A method embodiment comprises generating, by a system comprising a processor, a synthetic 2D image from a 3D image of a first capture modality, wherein the synthetic 2D image corresponds to a 2D version of the 3D image in a second capture modality, and wherein the 3D image and the synthetic 2D image depict a same anatomical region of a same patient. The method further comprises transferring, by the system, ground truth data for the 3D image to the synthetic 2D image. In some embodiments, the method further comprises employing the synthetic 2D image to facilitate transfer of the ground truth data to a native 2D image captured of the same anatomical region of the same patient using the second capture modality.

Multimodality image processing techniques for training image data generation and usage thereof for developing mono-modality image inferencing models

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.

Machine learning generation of low-noise and high structural conspicuity images

Systems/techniques that facilitate self-supervised deblurring are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access an input image generated by an imaging device. In various aspects, the system can train, in a self-supervised manner based on a point spread function of the imaging device, a machine learning model to deblur the input image. More specifically, the system can append to the model one or more non-trainable convolution layers having a blur kernel that is based on the point spread function of the imaging device. In various aspects, the system can feed the input image to the model, the model can generate a first output image based on the input image, the one or more non-trainable convolution layers can generate a second output image by convolving the first output image with the blur kernel, and the system can update parameters of the model based on a difference between the input image and the second output image.

Self-supervised deblurring

A computer-implemented method for correcting artifacts in computed tomography data is provided. The method includes inputting a sinogram into a trained sinogram correction network, wherein the sinogram is missing a pixel value for at least one pixel. The method also includes processing the sinogram via one or more layers of the trained sinogram correction network, wherein processing the sinogram includes deriving complementary information from the sinogram and estimating the pixel value for the at least one pixel based on the complementary information. The method further includes outputting from the trained sinogram correction network a corrected sinogram having the estimated pixel value.

System and method for utilizing a deep learning network to correct for a bad pixel in a computed tomography detector

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