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Medical image inpainting holds significant importance in enhancing the quality of medical images by restoring missing areas, thereby rendering them suitable for diagnostic purposes. While several techniques have been previously proposed for medical image inpainting, they are not suitable for distorted images containing metallic implants due to their limited consideration of known shaped masking. To overcome this limitation, a novel Vectorized Box Interpolation with Arbitrary Auto-Rand Augment Masking technique has been proposed which involves scaling and vectorizing images to expand their details and generating asymmetrically shaped masking in an automatic random format. One of the challenging tasks in this regard is the precise detection of lost regions, which is addressed through the introduction of the Regional Pixel Semantic Network. This technique employs the locally shared features (LSF) based region sensing with FCN (fully convolutional network) segmentation, which performs automatic segmentation based on neighboring pixel local dependency and regional features to determine the location of masked regions. During the reconstruction of missing parts, a significant challenge posed is the inability to recognize proximity in encoding owing to the generation of shadow-like regions on the feature map. To address this issue, a novel Multilayered DRC Regularized Pyramidal Attention AE Model has been proposed which employs dilated convolution with coherent pyramidal attention for feature extraction and improves image resolution using a Laplacian convolutional layer. Moreover, the realness of the generated image is determined using the Quantile Differential Mechanism model, where in the Quantile Differential Partial Convolutional Discriminator utilizes the hyperbolic tangent activation function in the partial convolutional layer to calculate recognition accuracy. As a result, the proposed method achieves high percentages for accuracy (98 %), precision (97 %), sensitivity (96 %), recall (95 %), and F-measure (96 %) thereby outperforming existing methods. Overall, this proposed method effectively handles distorted images with metallic implants, accurately detects lost regions, and improves the reconstructed image quality.

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