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Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

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As user expectations for image editing continue to rise, the demand for flexible, fine-grained manipulation of specific visual elements presents a challenge for current diffusion-based methods. In this work, we present BlobCtrl, a framework…

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A generic computational imaging setup is considered which assumes sequential illumination of a semi-transparent object by an arbitrary set of structured illumination patterns. For each incident illumination pattern, all transmitted light is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , A. Kozlov , Ya. I. Nesterets , H. M. Quiney

X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstructs the internal morphology of a three dimensional object from a collection of projection images, most commonly using a single rotation axis. However, for objects containing dense materials like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Diyu Yang , Craig A. J. Kemp , Soumendu Majee , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

Limited data and low dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms which lead to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years sinogram denoising has become an essential pre-processing step…

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Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important imaging technology widely used in medical scenarios, such as diagnosis and preoperative planning. Using fewer projection views to reconstruct CT, also known as sparse-view reconstruction,…

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Usual approaches for image recoloring, such as local filtering by transfer functions and global histogram remapping, lack of accurate control or miss small groups of important pixels. In this paper, we introduce a triangle-based structuring…

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We propose a direct reconstruction algorithm for Computed Tomography, based on a local fusion of a few preliminary image estimates by means of a non-linear fusion rule. One such rule is based on a signal denoising technique which is…

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Over the past few years, dictionary learning (DL)-based methods have been successfully used in various image reconstruction problems. However, traditional DL-based computed tomography (CT) reconstruction methods are patch-based and ignore…

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in medical imaging and industrial nondestructive testing, but the presence of scattered radiation will cause significant reduction of image quality. In this article, a robust scatter…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Kuidong Huang , Zhe Xu , Dinghua Zhang , Hua Zhang , Wenlong Shi

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has demonstrated remarkable advances in the field of image representation but demands substantial GPU resources. GaussianImage recently pioneered the use of Gaussian Splatting to mitigate this cost,…

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We introduce an ultrahigh-resolution (50\mu m\) robotic micro-CT design for localized imaging of carotid plaques using robotic arms, cutting-edge detector, and machine learning technologies. To combat geometric error-induced artifacts in…

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Inpainting-based image compression is a promising alternative to classical transform-based lossy codecs. Typically it stores a carefully selected subset of all pixel locations and their colour values. In the decoding phase the missing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ferdinand Jost , Vassillen Chizhov , Joachim Weickert

We present SCube, a novel method for reconstructing large-scale 3D scenes (geometry, appearance, and semantics) from a sparse set of posed images. Our method encodes reconstructed scenes using a novel representation VoxSplat, which is a set…

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Computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in clinical settings because it delivers detailed 3D images of the human body. However, performing CT scans is not always feasible due to radiation exposure and limitations in certain surgical…

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Medical imaging modalities have revolutionized health-care approaches by offering a better understanding of the human anatomy. Discovery of x-rays allowed the exploiting of the micro-scaled information of human anatomy. Computed tomography…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Sanam Assili

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

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We study algorithms to estimate geometric properties of raw point cloud data through implicit surface representations. Given that any level-set function with a constant level set corresponding to the surface can be used for such…

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Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

Human face recognition has been a long standing problem in computer vision and pattern recognition. Facial analysis can be viewed as a two-fold problem, namely (i) facial representation, and (ii) classification. So far, many face…

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