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ArticleBioMed research international2022

Super-Resolution Swin Transformer and Attention Network for Medical CT Imaging.

Jianhua Hu, Shuzhao Zheng, Bo Wang, Guixiang Luo, WoQing Huang, Jun Zhang

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Article in BioMed research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Jianhua HuComputer Engineering Technical College, Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, Zhuhai Guangdong, China.
Shuzhao ZhengComputer Engineering Technical College, Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, Zhuhai Guangdong, China.
Bo WangComputer Engineering Technical College, Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, Zhuhai Guangdong, China.
Guixiang LuoSchool of Computer Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou Guangdong, China.
WoQing HuangComputer Engineering Technical College, Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, Zhuhai Guangdong, China.
Jun ZhangComputer Engineering Technical College, Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, Zhuhai Guangdong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-3318

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Abstract

Computerized tomography (CT) is widely used for clinical screening and treatment planning. In this study, we aimed to reduce X-ray radiation and achieve high-quality CT imaging by using low-intensity X-rays because CT radiation is damaging to the human body. An innovative vision transformer for medical image super-resolution (SR) is applied to establish a high-definition image target. To achieve this, we proposed a method called swin transformer and attention network (STAN) that uses the swin transformer network, which employs an attention method to overcome the long-range dependency difficulties encountered in CNNs and RNNs to enhance and restore the quality of medical CT images. We adopted the peak signal-to-noise ratio for performance comparison with other mainstream SR reconstruction models used in medical CT imaging. Experimental results revealed that the proposed STAN model yields superior medical CT imaging results than the existing SR techniques based on CNNs. The proposed STAN model employs a self-attention mechanism to more effectively extract critical features and long-range information, hence enhancing the quality of medical CT image reconstruction.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedHumansSignal-To-Noise RatioX-Rays

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PMID36531651
PMCPMC9754833

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