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Owing to the edge preserving ability and low computational cost of the total variation (TV), variational models with the TV regularization have been widely investigated in the field of multiplicative noise removal. The key points of the…
The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…
Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well…
Total variation (TV) is a widely used regularizer for stabilizing the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for minimizing TV regularized least-squares cost functional. Our…
Purpose: We develop an iterative image-reconstruction algorithm for application to low-intensity computed tomography (CT) projection data, which is based on constrained, total-variation (TV) minimization. The algorithm design focuses on…
Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…
The conjugate gradient (CG) method is commonly used for the rapid solution of least squares problems. In image reconstruction, the problem can be ill-posed and also contaminated by noise; due to this, approaches such as regularization…
We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…
High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…
Total Variation (TV) and related extensions have been popular in image restoration due to their robust performance and wide applicability. While the original formulation is still relevant after two decades of extensive research, its…
This study presents the development of a spatially adaptive weighting strategy for Total Variation regularization, aimed at addressing under-determined linear inverse problems. The method leverages the rapid computation of an accurate…
This paper considers the constrained total variation (TV) denoising problem for complex-valued images. We extend the definition of TV seminorms for real-valued images to dealing with complex-valued ones. In particular, we introduce two…
The problem of restoration of digital images from their degraded measurements plays a central role in a multitude of practically important applications. A particularly challenging instance of this problem occurs in the case when the…
Compressed sensing (CS) methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer rapid acquisition and improved image quality but require iterative reconstruction schemes with regularization to enforce sparsity. Regardless of the difficulty in…
This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary…
Total variation (TV) minimization is one of the most important techniques in modern signal/image processing, and has wide range of applications. While there are numerous recent works on the restoration guarantee of the TV minimization in…
Total Variation (TV) is a popular regularization strategy that promotes piece-wise constant signals by constraining the $\ell_1$-norm of the first order derivative of the estimated signal. The resulting optimization problem is usually…
We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…
In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to advancement of image reconstruction algorithms. Traditionally, such regularizers rely on analytical models of sparsity (e.g. total variation (TV)). However, more recent methods…
Recently, a fast alternating minimization algorithm for total variation image deblurring (FTVd) has been presented by Wang, Yang, Yin, and Zhang [{\em SIAM J. Imaging Sci.}, 1 (2008), pp. 248--272]. The method in a nutshell consists of a…