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Bonevoyage: Navigating the depths of osteoporosis detection with a dual-core ensemble of cascaded ShuffleNet and neural networks.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241289314
Dhamodharan Srinivasan, Ajmeera Kiran, S Parameswari, Jeevanantham Vellaichamy
{"title":"Bonevoyage: Navigating the depths of osteoporosis detection with a dual-core ensemble of cascaded ShuffleNet and neural networks.","authors":"Dhamodharan Srinivasan, Ajmeera Kiran, S Parameswari, Jeevanantham Vellaichamy","doi":"10.1177/08953996241289314","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241289314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Osteoporosis (OP) is a condition that significantly decreases bone density and strength, often remaining undetected until the occurrence of a fracture. Timely identification of OP is essential for preventing fractures, reducing morbidity, and enhancing the quality of life.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to improve the accuracy, speed, and reliability of early-stage osteoporosis detection by integrating the compact architecture of Cascaded ShuffleNet with the pattern recognition prowess of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>BoneVoyage leverages the efficiency of ShuffleNet and the analytical capabilities of ANNs to extract and analyze complex features from bone density scans. The framework was trained and validated on a comprehensive dataset containing thousands of bone density images, ensuring robustness across diverse cases.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This model achieving an accuracy of 97.2%, with high sensitivity and specificity. These results significantly surpass those of existing OP detection methods, highlighting the effectiveness of the BoneVoyage framework in identifying subtle changes in bone density indicative of early-stage osteoporosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>BoneVoyage represents a significant advancement in the early detection of osteoporosis, offering a reliable tool for healthcare providers to identify at-risk individuals prematurely. The early detection facilitated by BoneVoyage allows for the implementation of preventive measures and targeted treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"3-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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CT image super-resolution under the guidance of deep gradient information.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241289225
Ye Shen, Ningning Liang, Xinyi Zhong, Junru Ren, Zhizhong Zheng, Lei Li, Bin Yan
{"title":"CT image super-resolution under the guidance of deep gradient information.","authors":"Ye Shen, Ningning Liang, Xinyi Zhong, Junru Ren, Zhizhong Zheng, Lei Li, Bin Yan","doi":"10.1177/08953996241289225","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241289225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Due to the hardware constraints of Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, acquiring high-resolution (HR) CT images in clinical settings poses a significant challenge. In recent years, convolutional neural networks have shown great potential in CT super-resolution (SR) problems. However, the reconstruction results of many deep learning-based SR methods have structural distortion and detail ambiguity. In this paper, a new SR network based on generative adversarial learning is proposed. The network consists of gradient branch and SR branch. Gradient branch is used to recover HR gradient maps. The network merges gradient image features of the gradient branch into the SR branch, offering gradient information guidance for super-resolution (SR) reconstruction. Further, the loss function of the network combines the image space loss function with the gradient loss and the gradient variance loss to further generate a more realistic detail texture. Compared to other comparison algorithms, the structural similarity index of the SR results obtained by the proposed method on simulation and experimental data has increased by 1.8% and 1.4%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CT SR network exhibits superior performance in terms of structure preservation and detail restoration.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"58-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spine X-ray image segmentation based on deep learning and marker controlled watershed.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241299998
Yating Xiao, Yan Chen, Yong Zhang, Runjie Zhang, Guangyu Cui, Yufeng Song, Quan Zhang
{"title":"Spine X-ray image segmentation based on deep learning and marker controlled watershed.","authors":"Yating Xiao, Yan Chen, Yong Zhang, Runjie Zhang, Guangyu Cui, Yufeng Song, Quan Zhang","doi":"10.1177/08953996241299998","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241299998","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The development of automatic methods for vertebral segmentation provides the objective analysis of each vertebra in the spine image, which is important for the diagnosis of various spinal diseases. However, vertebrae have inter-class similarity and intra-class variability, and some adjacent vertebrae exhibit adhesion.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To solve the adhesion problem of adjacent vertebrae and ensure that the boundary between adjacent vertebrae can be accurately demarcated, we propose an image segmentation method based on deep learning and marker controlled watershed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This method consists of a dual-path model of localization path and segmentation path to achieve automatic vertebral segmentation. For the vertebral localization path, a high-resolution network (HRNet) is used to locate vertebral center. Moreover, based on spine posture, a new bone direction loss (BD-Loss) is designed to constrain HRNet. For the vertebral segmentation path, we proposed a VU-Net network to achieve vertebral preliminary segmentation. Additionally, a position information perception module (PIPM) is introduced to realize the guidance of HRNet to VU-Net. Finally, we novelly use the outputs of HR-Net and VU-Net deep learning networks to initialize the marker controlled watershed algorithm to suppress the adhesion of adjacent vertebrae and achieve vertebral fine segmentation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The proposed method was evaluated on two spine X-ray datasets using four metrics. The first dataset contains sagittal images of the cervical spine, while the second dataset contains coronal images of the whole spine, both with different health conditions. Our method achieved Recall of 96.82% and 94.38%, Precision of 97.24% and 98.14%, Dice coefficient of 97.03% and 96.22%, Intersection over Union of 94.24% and 92.72% on the cervical spine and whole spine datasets respectively, outperforming current state-of-the-art techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"109-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The usefulness of X-ray output management in general radiography systems using exposure index.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241299994
Kazuhiro Ogasawara, Shinya Ohwada, Rie Tachibana, Katsuhiko Ogasawara
{"title":"The usefulness of X-ray output management in general radiography systems using exposure index.","authors":"Kazuhiro Ogasawara, Shinya Ohwada, Rie Tachibana, Katsuhiko Ogasawara","doi":"10.1177/08953996241299994","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241299994","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The periodic quality control of X-ray devices is important for obtaining optical medical images and determining the appropriate X-ray exposure dose. Additionally, the measurement of the X-ray output is constrained by time, technical aspects, and expenses. Therefore, we investigated the usefulness of a simple method for managing X-ray output using an Exposure Index (EI).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The entire surface of the flat panel detector was X-ray-irradiated every Friday at the time of end-of-work inspection under the condition that the recorded EI was approximately 1000. The EI and exposure dose were measured, and the linearity and accuracy were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The output gradually decreased from the start of the measurements in Room 1 and stabilized after the output was adjusted. The relationship between exposure dose and EI showed high linearity, with R<sup>2</sup> > 0.99, and the CV of EI was less than 2.41%, indicating high reproducibility.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We demonstrated that the results of constancy tests can be easily quantified using EI. The EI method can manage the X-ray output with good reproducibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"204-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhancing brain tumor classification by integrating radiomics and deep learning features: A comprehensive study utilizing ensemble methods on MRI scans.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-09 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241299996
Liang Yin, Jing Wang
{"title":"Enhancing brain tumor classification by integrating radiomics and deep learning features: A comprehensive study utilizing ensemble methods on MRI scans.","authors":"Liang Yin, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1177/08953996241299996","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241299996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>This study aims to assess the effectiveness of combining radiomics features (RFs) with deep learning features (DFs) for classifying brain tumors-specifically Glioma, Meningioma, and Pituitary Tumor-using MRI scans and advanced ensemble learning techniques.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 3064 T1-weighted contrast-enhanced brain MRI scans were analyzed. RFs were extracted using Pyradiomics, while DFs were obtained from a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN). These features were used both individually and together to train a range of machine learning models, including Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forests (RF), AdaBoost, Bagging, k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP). To enhance the accuracy of these models, ensemble approaches such as Stacking, Voting, and Boosting were employed. LASSO feature selection and five-fold cross-validation were utilized to ensure the models' robustness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results demonstrated that combining RFs and DFs significantly improved the model's performance compared to using either feature set alone. The best performance was achieved using the combined RF + DF approach with ensemble methods, particularly Boosting, which resulted in an accuracy of 95.0%, an AUC of 0.92, a sensitivity of 88%, and a specificity of 90%. Conversely, models utilizing only RFs or DFs showed lower performance, with RFs reaching an AUC of 0.82 and DFs achieving an AUC of 0.85.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The integration of RFs and DFs, along with advanced ensemble methods, significantly improves the accuracy and reliability of brain tumor classification using MRI. This approach shows strong clinical potential, with opportunities for further enhancing generalizability and precision through additional MRI sequences and advanced machine learning techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"47-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Three-dimensional semi-supervised lumbar vertebrae region of interest segmentation based on MAE pre-training.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241301685
Yang Liu, Jian Chen, Jinjin Hai, Kai Qiao, Xin Qi, Yongli Li, Bin Yan
{"title":"Three-dimensional semi-supervised lumbar vertebrae region of interest segmentation based on MAE pre-training.","authors":"Yang Liu, Jian Chen, Jinjin Hai, Kai Qiao, Xin Qi, Yongli Li, Bin Yan","doi":"10.1177/08953996241301685","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241301685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background:: </strong>The annotation of the regions of interest (ROI) of lumbar vertebrae by radiologists for bone density assessment is a tedious and time-intensive task. However, deep learning (DL) methods for image segmentation has the potential to substitute manual annotations which can significantly improve the efficiency of clinical diagnostics.</p><p><strong>Objective:: </strong>The paper proposes a semi-supervised three-dimensional (3D) segmentation method for the ROI of lumbar vertebrae by integrating the tube masking masked autoencoder (MAE) pre-training.</p><p><strong>Methods:: </strong>The paper proposes a method that modifies the masking strategy of the original MAE pre-training network. And the pre-training network is only trained by images without segmentation labels, when the training is finished, the weights will be saved for segmentation tasks. In downstream tasks, a semi-supervised approach utilizing pseudo-label generation is employed for training. This method leverages a small amount of labeled data to achieve the segmentation of ROI of the lumbar vertebrae.</p><p><strong>Results:: </strong>The experimental results demonstrate that under the condition of limited annotated data, the proposed network improves the dice coefficient by 5-7% and reduces the hausdorff distance by 0.2∼0.6 mm compared to using the UNetr network alone for segmentation. When compared to the conventional MAE, the tube masking MAE presented in this paper assists effectively in segmentation, resulting in a 2% increase in the dice coefficient and a 0.24 mm reduction in the hausdorff distance.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:: </strong>Automatic segmentation of the ROI of the lumbar vertebrae helps to shorten the time for doctors to annotate vertebrae during clinical bone density examinations. The paper employs the tube masking MAE pre-trained model to effectively extract contextual information of the 3D lumbar vertebrae, combining it with a semi-supervised network leveraging pseudo-label generation for fine-tuning, which leads to effective 3D segmentation of the lumbar vertebrae.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"270-282"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Quantitative analysis of deep learning reconstruction in CT angiography: Enhancing CNR and reducing dose.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241301696
Chang-Lae Lee
{"title":"Quantitative analysis of deep learning reconstruction in CT angiography: Enhancing CNR and reducing dose.","authors":"Chang-Lae Lee","doi":"10.1177/08953996241301696","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241301696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Computed tomography angiography (CTA) provides significant information on image quality in vascular imaging, thus offering high-resolution images despite having the disadvantages of increased radiation doses and contrast agent-related side effects. The deep-learning image reconstruction strategies were used to quantitatively evaluate the enhanced contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and the dose reduction effect of subtracted images.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to elucidate a comprehensive understanding of the quantitative image quality features of the conventional filtered back projection (FBP) and the advanced intelligent clear-IQ engine (AiCE), a deep learning reconstruction technique. The comparison was made in subtracted images with variable concentrations of contrast agents at variable tube currents and voltages, enhancing our knowledge of these two techniques.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were obtained using a state-of-the-art 320-detector CT scanner. Image reconstruction was performed using FBP and AiCE with various intensities. The image quality evaluation was based on eight iodine concentrations in the phantom setup. The efficiency of AiCE relative to FBP was assessed by computing parameters including the root mean square error (RMSE), dose-dependent CNR, and potential dose reduction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that elevated concentrations of iodine and increased tube currents improved AiCE performance regarding CNR enhancement compared to FBP. AiCE also demonstrated a potential dose reduction ranging from 13.7 to 81.9% compared to FBP, suggesting a significant reduction in radiation exposure while maintaining image quality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The employment of deep learning image reconstruction with AiCE presented a significant improvement in CNR and potential dose reduction in CT angiography. This study highlights the potential of AiCE to improve vascular image quality and decrease radiation exposure risk, thereby improving diagnostic precision and patient care in vascular imaging practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"86-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A study on CT detection image generation based on decompound synthesize method. 基于分解合成法的 CT 检测图像生成研究。
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241296249
Jintao Fu, Renjie Liu, Tianchen Zeng, Peng Cong, Ximing Liu, Yuewen Sun
{"title":"A study on CT detection image generation based on decompound synthesize method.","authors":"Jintao Fu, Renjie Liu, Tianchen Zeng, Peng Cong, Ximing Liu, Yuewen Sun","doi":"10.1177/08953996241296249","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241296249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nuclear graphite and carbon components are vital structural elements in the cores of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors(HTGR), serving crucial roles in neutron reflection, moderation, and insulation. The structural integrity and stable operation of these reactors heavily depend on the quality of these components. Helical Computed Tomography (CT) technology provides a method for detecting and intelligently identifying defects within these structures. However, the scarcity of defect datasets limits the performance of deep learning-based detection algorithms due to small sample sizes and class imbalance.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Given the limited number of actual CT reconstruction images of components and the sparse distribution of defects, this study aims to address the challenges of small sample sizes and class imbalance in defect detection model training by generating approximate CT reconstruction images to augment the defect detection training dataset.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We propose a novel CT detection image generation algorithm called the Decompound Synthesize Method (DSM), which decomposes the image generation process into three steps: model conversion, background generation, and defect synthesis. First, STL files of various industrial components are converted into voxel data, which undergo forward projection and image reconstruction to obtain corresponding CT images. Next, the Contour-CycleGAN model is employed to generate synthetic images that closely resemble actual CT images. Finally, defects are randomly sampled from an existing defect library and added to the images using the Copy-Adjust-Paste (CAP) method. These steps significantly expand the training dataset with images that closely mimic actual CT reconstructions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed image generation method in defect detection tasks. Datasets generated using DSM exhibit greater similarity to actual CT images, and when combined with original data for training, these datasets enhance defect detection accuracy compared to using only the original images.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The DSM shows promise in addressing the challenges of small sample sizes and class imbalance. Future research can focus on further optimizing the generation algorithm and refining the model structure to enhance the performance and accuracy of defect detection models.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"72-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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PCB CT image element segmentation model based on boundary-attention-guided finetuning.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241303366
Chen Chen, Kai Qiao, Jie Yang, Jian Chen, Bin Yan
{"title":"PCB CT image element segmentation model based on boundary-attention-guided finetuning.","authors":"Chen Chen, Kai Qiao, Jie Yang, Jian Chen, Bin Yan","doi":"10.1177/08953996241303366","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241303366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Computed Tomography (CT) technology is commonly used to realize non-destructive testing of Printed Circuit Board (PCB), and element segmentation is the key link in the process. Although the pretraining and finetuning paradigm alleviates the problem of labeling, PCB CT images are easily affected by uneven grayscale and layer penetration. This leads to difficult segmentation of boundaries and affect semantic understanding, resulting in jagged boundaries and even missing elements.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This paper aims to solve the problem of poor boundary segmentation in PCB CT image element segmentation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To this end, we propose PCB CT image element segmentation model based on boundary-attention-guided finetuning. An improved boundary detection algorithm is proposed to enhance boundary sensing ability. In order to achieve non-fixed weight feature fusion, the Attention Feature Fusion module is designed to help boundary features better assist segmentation through attention mechanism.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experiments show that BAG-FTseg can achieve 89.5% mIoU on our PCB CT dataset, exceeding the baseline model by 0.9%, and the boundary-mIoU reaches 69.5%, 5.3% higher than the baseline model.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This method improves the accuracy of boundary segmentation of PCB elements and the efficiency of feature fusion through attention mechanism, which has practical significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"134-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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MAFA-Uformer: Multi-attention and dual-branch feature aggregation U-shaped transformer for sparse-view CT reconstruction.
IF 1.7 3区 医学
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1177/08953996241300016
Xuan Zhang, Chenyun Fang, Zhiwei Qiao
{"title":"MAFA-Uformer: Multi-attention and dual-branch feature aggregation U-shaped transformer for sparse-view CT reconstruction.","authors":"Xuan Zhang, Chenyun Fang, Zhiwei Qiao","doi":"10.1177/08953996241300016","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08953996241300016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although computed tomography (CT) is widely employed in disease detection, X-ray radiation may pose a risk to the health of patients. Reducing the projection views is a common method, however, the reconstructed images often suffer from streak artifacts.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>In previous related works, it can be found that the convolutional neural network (CNN) is proficient in extracting local features, while the Transformer is adept at capturing global information. To suppress streak artifacts for sparse-view CT, this study aims to develop a method that combines the advantages of CNN and Transformer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this paper, we propose a Multi-Attention and Dual-Branch Feature Aggregation U-shaped Transformer network (MAFA-Uformer), which consists of two branches: CNN and Transformer. Firstly, with a coordinate attention mechanism, the Transformer branch can capture the overall structure and orientation information to provide a global context understanding of the image under reconstruction. Secondly, the CNN branch focuses on extracting crucial local features of images through channel spatial attention, thus enhancing detail recognition capabilities. Finally, through a feature fusion module, the global information from the Transformer and the local features from the CNN are integrated effectively.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves outstanding performance in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity (SSIM), and root mean square error (RMSE). Compared with Restormer, our model achieves significant improvements: PSNR increases by 0.76 dB, SSIM improves by 0.44%, and RMSE decreases by 8.55%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our method not only effectively suppresses artifacts but also better preserves details and features, thereby providing robust support for accurate diagnosis of CT images.</p>","PeriodicalId":49948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"157-166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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