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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…

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Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is installed in the treatment room to facilitate online clinical applications, including image guidance in radiation and surgery. Half-fan and short-can are the commonly used modes in clinical applications to expand the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Junbo Peng

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging is commonly used for the assessment of the cardiac anatomy and function. The delineations of left and right ventricle blood pools and left ventricular myocardium are important for the diagnosis of cardiac…

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Despite the widespread use of deep learning methods for semantic segmentation of images that are acquired from a single source, clinicians often use multi-domain data for a detailed analysis. For instance, CT and MRI have advantages over…

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Diffraction microtomography in coherent light is foreseen as a promising technique to image transparent living samples in three dimensions without staining. Contrary to conventional microscopy with incoherent light, which gives…

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To move away from open-heart surgery towards safer transcatheter procedures, there is a growing need for improved imaging techniques and robotic solutions to enable simple, accurate tool navigation. Common imaging modalities, such as…

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The perfect alignment of 3D echocardiographic images captured from various angles has improved image quality and broadened the field of view. This study proposes an accelerated sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm for 3D-3D rigid…

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In real-time (RT) cardiac cine imaging, a stack of 2D slices is collected sequentially under free-breathing conditions. A complete heartbeat from each slice is then used for cardiac function quantification. The inter-slice respiratory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Chong Chen , Yingmin Liu , Orlando P. Simonetti , Rizwan Ahmad

Medical image analysis tasks often focus on regions or structures located in a particular location within the patient's body. Often large parts of the image may not be of interest for the image analysis task. When using deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Thomas Buddenkotte , Roland Opfer , Julia Krüger , Alessa Hering , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar

CMB anisotropy experiments seeking to make maps with more pixels than the 6144 pixels used by the COBE DMR need to address the practical issues of the computer time and storage required to make maps. A simple, repetitive scan pattern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward L. Wright

Unlike previous works, this open data collection consists of X-ray cone-beam (CB) computed tomography (CT) datasets specifically designed for machine learning applications and high cone-angle artefact reduction. Forty-two walnuts were…

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Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally…

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Confocal microscopy is the backbone of cellular research labs across the world but unfortunately, the imaging is restricted to a single plane. Chromatic confocal microscopy offers the possibility to image multiple planes simultaneously thus…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Gargi Sharma , Kanwarpal Singh

Conventional computed tomography (CT) lacks the ability to capture dynamic, weight-bearing joint motion. Functional evaluation, particularly after surgical intervention, requires four-dimensional (4D) imaging, but current methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hao Tang , Rongxi Yi , Lei Li , Kaiyi Cao , Jiapeng Zhao , Yihan Xiao , Minghai Shi , Peng Yuan , Yan Xi , Hui Tang , Wei Li , Zhan Wu , Yixin Zhou

Real-time 3D navigation during minimally invasive procedures is an essential yet challenging task, especially when considerable tissue motion is involved. To balance image acquisition speed and resolution, only 2D images or low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Xiao-Yun Zhou , Guang-Zhong Yang , Su-Lin Lee

It is well known that machine learning models require a high amount of annotated data to obtain optimal performance. Labelling Computed Tomography (CT) data can be a particularly challenging task due to its volumetric nature and often…

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Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy for image-guided treatment, improving setup accuracy, adaptive planning, and motion management. However, slow gantry rotation limits performance by introducing motion artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuan Gao , Shaoyan Pan , Mingzhe Hu , Huiqiao Xie , Jill Remick , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Zhen Tian , Xiaofeng Yang

Purpose: The goal is to develop a new architecture for computed tomography (CT) which is at an ultra-low-dose for developing countries, especially in rural areas. Methods: The proposed scheme is inspired by the recently developed…

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