Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 8, 0837008(2024)

Projection Domain Denoising Method for Multi-Energy Computed Tomography via Dual-Stream Transformer

Shunxin Ouyang1, Zaifeng Shi1,3、*, Fanning Kong1, Lili Zhang1, and Qingjie Cao2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2College of Mathematical Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
  • 3Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronics Technology, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Paper Information

    Category: Digital Image Processing

    Received: Jun. 1, 2023

    Accepted: Aug. 8, 2023

    Published Online: Mar. 13, 2024

    The Author Email: Shi Zaifeng (shizaifeng@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP231426

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