Table 6.
Task | Imaging modality | Performance measure | Network output | Network architecture basis |
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Filtering | CT,234Chest x ray,235x ray fluoro236 | MSE234, CAD performance,234PSNR,235, 236 SSIM,235, 236Runtime236 | Likelihood of nodule,234Bone image,235CLAHE filtering236 | Custom CNN,234, 235Residual CNN,236Residual AE236 |
Noise reduction | CT,237, 238, 239, 240PET241 | PSNR,237, 238, 239, 240, 241 RMSE,237, 238 SSIM,237, 238, 240 NRMSE,239 NMSE241 | Noise‐reduced image237, 238, 239, 240, 241 | Custom CNN,237, 238, 239Residual AE,237, 238Concatenated CNNs,241U‐net240 |
Artifact reduction | CT,242, 243MRI244 | SNR,242, 243 NMSE,244 Qualitative,243 Runtime244 | Sparse‐view recon,242, 244 Metal artifact reduced image243 | U‐net,242, 244Custom CNN243 |
Recons | MRI245, 246, 247, 248 | RMSE,245, 248 runtime,245 MSE,246, 247 NRMSE,246 SSIM,246 SNR248 | Image of scalar measures,245 MR reconstruction246, 247, 248 | Custom CNN,245, 248Custom NN,246Cascade of CNNs247 |
Registration | MRI249, 250, 251, 252x‐ray to 3D253, 254 | DICE,249, 250 Runtime,250 Target Overlap,251 SNR,252 TRE,254 Image and vessel sharpness,252 mTREproj253 | Deformable registration,249, 250, 251, 252 Rigid body 3D transformation253, 254 | Custom CNN,249, 251, 252, 253, 254SAE250 |
Synthesis of one modality from another | CT from MRI,255, 256, 257, 258, 259MRI from PET,260PET from CT261 | MAE,255, 256 PSNR,255, 259 ME,256 MSE,256 Pearson correl,256 PET image Quality,257, 258 SSIM,260 SUVR of MR‐less methods,260 Tumor detection by radiologist261 | Synthetic CT,255, 256, 257, 258Synthetic MRI,260Synthetic PET261 | Custom 3D FCN,255GAN,259, 260, 261U‐net,256, 257AE258 |
Image quality assessment |
US,262 MRI265 |
AUC,262, 264 IOU,262 Correlation between TRE estimation and ground truth,263 Concordance with readers265 | ROI localization and classification,262 TRE estimation,263 Estimate of image diagnostic value264, 265 | Custom CNN,262, 265Custom NN,263VGG19264 |
MSE, mean‐squared error; RMSE, Root MSE; NSME, normalized MSE; NRMSE, normalized RMSE; SNR, signal‐to‐noise ratio; PSNR, peak SNR; SSIM, structural similarity; DICE, segmentation overlap index; TRE, target registration error; mTREproj, mean TRE in projection direction; MAE, mean absolute error; ME, mean error; SUVR, standardized uptake value ratio; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; IOU, intersection over union; CLAHE, contrast‐limited adaptive histogram equalization.