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In a number of tomographic applications, data cannot be fully acquired, resulting in a severely underdetermined image reconstruction. In such cases, conventional methods lead to reconstructions with significant artifacts. To overcome these…
This paper proposes a sinogram consistency learning method to deal with beam-hardening related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent…
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Photon-counting spectral computed tomography is now clinically available. These new detectors come with the promise of higher contrast-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution and improved low-dose imaging. However, one important design…
We present a note on the implementation and efficacy of a box-constrained $L_1/L_2$ regularization in numerical optimization approaches to performing tomographic reconstruction from a single projection view. The constrained $L_1/L_2$…
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We develop a primal-dual algorithm that allows for one-step inversion of spectral CT transmission photon counts data to a basis map decomposition. The algorithm allows for image constraints to be enforced on the basis maps during the…
Emerging neural reconstruction techniques based on tomography (e.g., NeRF, NeAT, and NeRP) have started showing unique capabilities in medical imaging. In this work, we present a novel Polychromatic neural representation (Polyner) to tackle…
We introduce a manifold-based framework for addressing optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints found in robotics. Our approach transforms the original problem into an unconstrained optimization problem directly on the…
Many modern statistically efficient methods come with tremendous computational challenges, often leading to large-scale optimisation problems. In this work, we examine such computational issues for recently developed estimation methods in…
Metal artifact correction is a challenging problem in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning. Metal implants inserted into the anatomy cause severe artifacts in reconstructed images. Widely used inpainting-based metal artifact…
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The Chambolle--Pock method is a versatile three-parameter algorithm designed to solve a broad class of composite convex optimization problems, which encompass two proper, lower semicontinuous, and convex functions, along with a linear…
In this effort, we propose a convex optimization approach based on weighted $\ell_1$-regularization for reconstructing objects of interest, such as signals or images, that are sparse or compressible in a wavelet basis. We recover the…
In X-ray CT scan with metallic objects, it is known that direct application of the filtered back-projection (FBP) formula leads to streaking artifacts in the reconstruction. These are characterized mathematically in terms of wave front sets…
Computed tomography (CT) metal artifact reduction (MAR) aims to reduce the severe streaking artifacts induced by metallic implants and other high-density objects. Effective MAR generally requires both accurate artifact localization and…
This paper presents a new compression technique and image watermarking algorithm based on Contourlet Transform (CT). For image compression, an energy based quantization is used. Scalar quantization is explored for image watermarking. Double…
Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…
For extending CT field-of-view to perform non-destructive testing, the Symmetric Multi-Linear trajectory Computed Tomography (SMLCT) has been developed as a successful example of non-standard CT scanning modes. However, inevitable geometric…
Alternating projection onto convex sets (POCS) provides an iterative procedure to find a signal that satisfies two or more convex constraints when the sets intersect. For nonintersecting constraints, the method of simultaneous projections…