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This study introduces a novel reconstruction method for dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), focusing on effectively reducing metal-induced artifacts commonly encountered in the presence of prevalent metallic implants. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Hyoung Suk Park , Kiwan Jeon , Jin Keun Seo

In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the computation of the initial pressure distribution within an object from its time-dependent boundary measurements over time is considered. This problem can be approached from two well-established points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Teemu Sahlström , Tanja Tarvainen

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) offers improved diagnostic performance through better spatial and energy resolution, but developing high-quality image reconstruction methods that can deal with these large datasets is challenging. Model-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Alma Eguizabal , Ozan Öktem , Mats U. Persson

We consider a class of regularization methods for inverse problems where a coupled regularization is employed for the simultaneous reconstruction of data from multiple sources. Applications for such a setting can be found in multi-spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Martin Holler , Richard Huber , Florian Knoll

This paper provides a fast and patient-specific scatter artifact correction method for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) used in image-guided interventional procedures. Due to increased irradiated volume of interest in CBCT imaging,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Wei Zhao , Stephen Brunner , Kai Niu , Sebastian Schafer , Kevin Royalty , Guang-Hong Chen

Background: Limited-angle (LA) dual-energy (DE) cone-beam CT (CBCT) is considered as a potential solution to achieve fast and low-dose DE imaging on current CBCT scanners without hardware modification. However, its clinical implementations…

In ground based infrared imaging a well-known technique to reduce the influence of thermal and background noise is chopping and nodding, where four different signals of the same object are recorded from which the object is reconstructed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Frank Lenzen , Otmar Scherzer , Sabine Schindler

Like many other advanced imaging methods, x-ray phase contrast imaging and tomography require mathematical inversion of the observed data to obtain real-space information. While an accurate forward model describing the generally nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Simon Maretzke , Matthias Bartels , Martin Krenkel , Tim Salditt , Thorsten Hohage

Persistent homology is a tool that can be employed to summarize the shape of data by quantifying homological features. When the data is an object in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the (augmented) persistent homology transform ((A)PHT) is a family of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Brittany Terese Fasy , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman , Anna Schenfisch , Lucia Williams

Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid imaging technique that combines high optical tissue contrast with high ultrasound resolution. Direct reconstruction methods such as filtered backprojection, time reversal and least squares suffer from…

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment. CT images are often corrupted by undesirable artifacts when metallic implants are carried by patients, which creates the problem of metal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Cheng Peng , Xiaohang Sun , Jingdan Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Rama Chellappa , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) holds great promise for breast cancer screening. Waveform inversion-based image reconstruction methods account for higher order diffraction effects and can produce high-resolution USCT images, but are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Thomas P. Matthews , Kun Wang , Cuiping Li , Neb Duric , Mark A. Anastasio

Total variation(TV) regularization is applied to X-Ray computed tomography(CT) in an effort to reduce metal artifacts. Tikhonov regularization with $L^2$ data fidelity term and total variation regularization is augmented in this novel model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Clemens Schiffer

Image structure-texture decomposition is a long-standing and fundamental problem in both image processing and computer vision fields. In this paper, we propose a generalized semi-sparse regularization framework for image structural analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Michael Ruzhansky

Time-resolved high-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (4D $\mu$CT) is an imaging technique that offers insight into the evolution of dynamic processes inside materials that are opaque to visible light. Conventional tomographic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Wannes Goethals , Tom Bultreys , Steffen Berg , Matthieu N. Boone , Jan Aelterman

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an emerging technology in medical imaging which employs light in the NIR spectrum to estimate the distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. DOT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Alessandro Benfenati , Giuseppe Bisazza , Paola Causin

In this paper, we develop a dual alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for an image decomposition model. In this model, an image is divided into two meaningful components, i.e., a cartoon part and a texture part. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Qingsong Wang , Chengjing Wang , Peipei Tang , Dunbiao Niu

Numerous regularization methods for deformable image registration aim at enforcing smooth transformations, but are difficult to tune-in a priori and lack a clear physical basis. Physically inspired strategies have emerged, offering a sound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Pablo Alvarez , Stéphane Cotin

In this paper we propose a new approach for tomographic reconstruction with spatially varying regularization parameter. Our work is based on the SA-TV image restoration model proposed in [3] where an automated parameter selection rule for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Yiqiu Dong , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb