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CT protocol design and quality control would benefit from automated tools to estimate the quality of generated CT images. These tools could be used to identify erroneous CT acquisitions or refine protocols to achieve certain signal to noise…

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Deep denoising models require extensive real-world training data, which is challenging to acquire. Current noise synthesis techniques struggle to accurately model complex noise distributions. We propose a novel Realistic Noise Synthesis…

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Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

We introduce a new learning strategy for image enhancement by recurrently training the same simple superresolution (SR) network multiple times. After initially training an SR network by using pairs of a corrupted low resolution (LR) image…

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In this paper, we propose a method for real-time high density impulse noise suppression from images. In our method, we first apply an impulse detector to identify the corrupted pixels and then employ an innovative weighted-average filter to…

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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is critical in nanotechnology, materials science, and biological imaging due to its high spatial resolution and depth of focus. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an essential parameter in SEM because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 K. S. Sim , I. Bukhori , D. C. Y. Ong , K. B. Gan

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diffusion measurements are widely used to derive parameters indirectly related to the microstructure of biological tissues and porous media. However, a direct imaging of cell or pore shapes and sizes would…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 Tristan Anselm Kuder , Peter Bachert , Johannes Windschuh , Frederik Bernd Laun

Single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images with their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. It is desirable to develop image quality assessment (IQA) methods that can not only evaluate and compare…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang , Zhibo Chen

We introduce a new approach for estimating the invariant density of a multidimensional diffusion when dealing with high-frequency observations blurred by independent noises. We consider the intermediate regime, where observations occur at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Raphaël Maillet , Grégoire Szymanski

Purpose: Noise in diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is often spatially correlated due to different acquisition and reconstruction strategies, which is not fully accounted for in current denoising strategies. Thus, we propose a novel model-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Vinicius P. Campos , Diego Szczupak , Tales Santini , Afonso C. Silva , Alessandro Foi , Marcelo A. C. Vieira , Corey A. Baron

In the absence of a pure noise-free image it is hard to define what noise is, in any original noisy image, and as a consequence also where it is, and in what amount. In fact, the definition of noise depends largely on our own aim in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Fernando Muge

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common and life-saving medical imaging technique. However, acquiring high signal-to-noise ratio MRI scans requires long scan times, resulting in increased costs and patient discomfort, and decreased…

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The noise in diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) decreases the accuracy and precision of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) derived microstructural parameters and leads to prolonged acquisition time for achieving improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Qiyuan Tian , Ziyu Li , Qiuyun Fan , Jonathan R. Polimeni , Berkin Bilgic , David H. Salat , Susie Y. Huang

This report studies diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) for single-image super-resolution (SISR) under a known degradation model. We implement a likelihood-guided sampling procedure that combines an unconditional diffusion prior with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Lossy Image compression is necessary for efficient storage and transfer of data. Typically the trade-off between bit-rate and quality determines the optimal compression level. This makes the image quality metric an integral part of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Juan Carlos Mier , Eddie Huang , Hossein Talebi , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar

Magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple sources often show differences in image contrast related to acquisition settings or the used scanner type. For long-term studies, longitudinal comparability is essential but can be impaired by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Alicia Durrer , Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Tim Sinnecker , Matthias Weigel , Robin Sandkühler , Cristina Granziera , Özgür Yaldizli , Philippe C. Cattin

Signal-quality awareness has been found to increase recognition rates and to support decisions in multisensor environments significantly. Nevertheless, automatic quality assessment is still an open issue. Here, we study the orientation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Hartwig Fronthaler , Klaus Kollreider , Josef Bigun , Julian Fierrez , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Javier Ortega-Garcia , Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for wireless image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing work adopts an autoencoder framework to optimize conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Mingyu Yang , Bowen Liu , Boyang Wang , Hun-Seok Kim

The accuracy of medical imaging-based diagnostics is directly impacted by the quality of the collected images. A passive approach to improve image quality is one that lags behind improvements in imaging hardware, awaiting better sensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Saeed Izadi , Zahra Mirikharaji , Mengliu Zhao , Ghassan Hamarneh