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While Computerized Tomography (CT) images can help detect disease such as Covid-19, regular CT machines are large and expensive. Cheaper and more portable machines suffer from errors in geometry acquisition that downgrades CT image quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Peijian Ding

Compressed Sensing (CS) is an effective approach to reduce the required number of samples for reconstructing a sparse signal in an a priori basis, but may suffer severely from the issue of basis mismatch. In this paper we study the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Yuejie Chi

Compressive sensing (CS) has proved effective for tomographic reconstruction from sparsely collected data or under-sampled measurements, which are practically important for few-view CT, tomosynthesis, interior tomography, and so on. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Yunjin Chen , Junfeng Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Huaiqiaing Sun , Yang Lv , Peixi Liao , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Low Dose CT Denoising research aims to reduce the risks of radiation exposure to patients. Recently researchers have used deep learning to denoise low dose CT images with promising results. However, approaches that use mean-squared-error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Sepehr Ataei , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners are usually designed with the goal to obtain the best compromise between sensitivity, resolution, field-of-view size, and cost. Therefore, it is difficult to improve the resolution of a PET…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Pablo Galve , Alejandro Lopez-Montes , Jose M Udias , Stephen C Moore , Joaquin L Herraiz

With the increasing popularity of PET-MR scanners in clinical applications, synthesis of CT images from MR has been an important research topic. Accurate PET image reconstruction requires attenuation correction, which is based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Snehashis Roy , John A. Butman , Dzung L. Pham

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

Helical CT has been widely used in clinical diagnosis. Sparsely spaced multidetector in z direction can increase the coverage of the detector provided limited detector rows. It can speed up volumetric CT scan, lower the radiation dose and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Ao Zheng , Hewei Gao , Li Zhang , Yuxiang Xing

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

In this paper, a Line based Compressive Sensing (LCS) scheme is discussed and proposed for low power visual applications, in which image acquisition is performed in a line-by-line manner at the encoder side using same measurement operator.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Mansoor Ebrahim , Syed Hasan Adil , Daniyal Nawaz , Kamran Raza

Many interesting problems in fields ranging from telecommunications to computational biology can be formalized in terms of large underdetermined systems of linear equations with additional constraints or regularizers. One of the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-06 Alfredo Braunstein , Anna Paola Muntoni , Andrea Pagnani , Mirko Pieropan

Compressive sensing (CS) reconstructs images from sub-Nyquist measurements by solving a sparsity-regularized inverse problem. Traditional CS solvers use iterative optimizers with hand crafted sparsifiers, while early data-driven methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Pamuditha Somarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Amashi Niwarthana , A. Thieshanthan , Chamira U. S. Edussooriya , Dushan N. Wadduwage

The diagnostic quality of computed tomography (CT) scans is usually restricted by the induced patient dose, scan speed, and image quality. Sparse-angle tomographic scans reduce radiation exposure and accelerate data acquisition, but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Oliver Aust , Sabrina Pechmann , Christopher Syben , Andreas Maier

In this work, we present a novel self-supervised method for Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. Reducing the radiation dose to patients during a CT scan is a crucial challenge since the quality of the reconstruction highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Hang Xu , Alessandro Perelli

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Recently it has been shown that precise dose control and an increase in the overall acquisition speed of atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) images can be achieved by acquiring only a small fraction of the…

Computed Tomography (CT) plays an essential role in clinical diagnosis. Due to the adverse effects of radiation on patients, the radiation dose is expected to be reduced as low as possible. Sparse sampling is an effective way, but it will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chang Sun , Ken Deng , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

We propose to reduce the original well-posed problem of compressive sensing to weighted-MAX-SAT. Compressive sensing is a novel randomized data acquisition approach that linearly samples sparse or compressible signals at a rate much below…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ramin Ayanzadeh , Milton Halem , Tim Finin

Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods for X-ray CT produce high-quality and accurate images, while greatly reducing patient exposure to radiation. When further reducing X-ray dose to an ultra-low level by lowering the tube current,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Qiaoqiao Ding , Yong Long , Xiaoqun Zhang , Jeffrey A. Fessler