Improved digital chest tomosynthesis image quality by use of a projection-based dual-energy virtual monochromatic convolutional neural network with super resolution
Fig 1
Flowchart of the Dual-Energy (DE) Virtual Monochromatic (VM) with Very-Deep Super-Resolution (VDSR) reconstruction algorithm (DE–VM–VDSR) and Bilateral Filtering (BF).
DE–VM–VDSR with BF is implemented by combining preprocessing [VM and VDSR with unsharp masking (UM)] and postprocessing (BF).