SCMA: Structure-Conditioned and Metal-Aware Flow Matching for CT Metal Artifact Reduction

arXiv:2607.28759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In X-ray CT, metallic objects cause beam hardening, photon starvation, and scattering, leading to projection inconsistency, streaks, dark bands, and structural distortions that compromise clinical diagnosis and quantitative analysis. Existing metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods remain limited: optimization-based methods may leave residual artifacts or blur structures, regression networks may generalize poorly across scenarios, and generative mod...