Seven challenges in image quality assessment: past, present, and future research

DM Chandler - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

[HTML][HTML] Image quality in CT: From physical measurements to model observers

FR Verdun, D Racine, JG Ott, MJ Tapiovaara, P Toroi… - Physica Medica, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of image quality (IQ) in Computed Tomography (CT) is important to
ensure that diagnostic questions are correctly answered, whilst kee** radiation dose to …

Nuclear medicine and artificial intelligence: best practices for evaluation (the RELAINCE guidelines)

AK Jha, TJ Bradshaw, I Buvat, M Hatt… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - jnm.snmjournals.org
An important need exists for strategies to perform rigorous objective clinical-task-based
evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for nuclear medicine. To address this need …

Comparison of objective image quality metrics to expert radiologists' scoring of diagnostic quality of MR images

A Mason, J Rioux, SE Clarke, A Costa… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image quality metrics (IQMs) such as root mean square error (RMSE) and structural
similarity index (SSIM) are commonly used in the evaluation and optimization of accelerated …

CT noise-reduction methods for lower-dose scanning: strengths and weaknesses of iterative reconstruction algorithms and new techniques

P Mohammadinejad, A Mileto, L Yu, S Leng… - Radiographics, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms are the most widely used CT noise-reduction method
to improve image quality and have greatly facilitated radiation dose reduction within the …

Human observer detection experiments with mammograms and power‐law noise

AE Burgess, FL Jacobson, PF Judy - Medical physics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We determined contrast thresholds for lesion detection as a function of lesion size in both
mammograms and filtered noise backgrounds with the same average power spectrum …

Achieving routine submillisievert CT scanning: report from the summit on management of radiation dose in CT

CH McCollough, GH Chen, W Kalender, S Leng… - Radiology, 2012 - pubs.rsna.org
This Special Report presents the consensus of the Summit on Management of Radiation
Dose in Computed Tomography (CT)(held in February 2011), which brought together …

Assessing the impact of deep neural network-based image denoising on binary signal detection tasks

K Li, W Zhou, H Li, MA Anastasio - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A variety of deep neural network (DNN)-based image denoising methods have been
proposed for use with medical images. Traditional measures of image quality (IQ) have been …

Review of SPECT collimator selection, optimization, and fabrication for clinical and preclinical imaging

K Van Audenhaege, R Van Holen… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In single photon emission computed tomography, the choice of the collimator has a major
impact on the sensitivity and resolution of the system. Traditional parallel‐hole and fan …

Image quality assessment for magnetic resonance imaging

S Kastryulin, J Zakirov, N Pezzotti, DV Dylov - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms aim to reproduce the human's perception of the
image quality. The growing popularity of image enhancement, generation, and recovery …