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However, these methods scale poorly with data size, and may be prohibitively expensive for practical tomographic reconstruction. In this thesis, we propose a new method for image reconstruction from low-dose data. The method combines a statistical iterative reconstruction framework with an adaptive sparsifying transform penalty. An alternating minimization approach is used to jointly reconstruct the image while learning a sparsifying transform adapted to the particular image being reconstructed. The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers is used to provide a computationally efficient solution to the statistically weighted minimization problem. Numerical experiments are performed on phantom data and clinical CT images. Dose reduction is achieved through reduction in the number of views and reduction in the photon flux. 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