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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2026 Mar;45(3):1115–1126. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2025.3618247

TABLE III.

Improved lesion visibility in denoised images facilitated by the LeqMod. Metrics were averaged across all test cases from the three scanners at the 5% low-count level.

	Tversky Index (↑)
	α=0.3, β=0.7	α=0.5, β=0.5 (Dice)	α=0.7, β=0.3
low-count	0.395±0.274	0.338±0.252	0.301±0.237
w/o LeqMod	0.637±0.194	0.653±0.185	0.674±0.175
w LeqMod	0.646±0.195 ^†	0.664±0.182 ^†	0.688±0.171 ^†

^†

P<0.05 based on the Wilcoxon signed-rank test between the w/o and w LeqMod groups.

(↑) represents expecting higher values.