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An analysis of the influence of missing samples in signals exhibiting sparsity in the Hermite transform domain is provided. Based on the statistical properties derived for the Hermite coefficients of randomly undersampled signal, the…
Finite-rate-of-innovation (FRI) signals are ubiquitous in applications such as radar, ultrasound, and time of flight imaging. Due to their finite degrees of freedom, FRI signals can be sampled at sub-Nyquist rates using appropriate sampling…
The present paper introduces a method for substantial reduction of the number of diffusion encoding gradients required for reliable reconstruction of HARDI signals. The method exploits the theory of compressed sensing (CS), which…
Compressed sensing is triggering a major evolution in signal acquisition. It consists in sampling a sparse signal at low rate and later using computational power for its exact reconstruction, so that only the necessary information is…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging technology for the screening and diagnosis of frequently occurring cancers. However image quality may suffer by long acquisition times for MRIs due to patient motion, as well as…
The structure of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) and especially their compressibility in an appropriate representation basis enables the application of the compressive sensing theory, which guarantees exact image recovery from incomplete…
Compressive sensing(CS) has drawn much attention in recent years due to its low sampling rate as well as high recovery accuracy. As an important procedure, reconstructing a sparse signal from few measurement data has been intensively…
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Sparse representations have emerged as a powerful tool in signal and information processing, culminated by the success of new acquisition and processing techniques such as Compressed Sensing (CS). Fusion frames are very rich new signal…
PET super-resolution is highly under-constrained because paired multi-resolution scans from the same subject are rarely available, and effective resolution is determined by scanner-specific physics (e.g., PSF, detector geometry, and…
A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…
As technology grows, higher frequency signals are required to be processed in various applications. In order to digitize such signals, conventional analog to digital convertors are facing implementation challenges due to the higher sampling…
Most existing MRI reconstruction methods perform tar-geted reconstruction of the entire MR image without tak-ing specific tissue regions into consideration. This may fail to emphasize the reconstruction accuracy on im-portant tissues for…
For single source helical Computed Tomography (CT), both Filtered-Back Projection (FBP) and statistical iterative reconstruction have been investigated. However for dual source CT with flying focal spot (DS-FFS CT), statistical iterative…
This paper proposes a randomized optimization framework for constrained signal reconstruction, where the word "constrained" implies that data-fidelity is imposed as a hard constraint instead of adding a data-fidelity term to an objective…
Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is essential in medical imaging, and the Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) algorithm is a popular choice for reconstruction due to its efficiency. However, FDK is susceptible to noise and artifacts. While…
In this paper we study the compressive sensing effects on 2D signals exhibiting sparsity in 2D DFT domain. A simple algorithm for reconstruction of randomly under-sampled data is proposed. It is based on the analytically determined…
Increasing spatial image resolution is an often required, yet challenging task in image acquisition. Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to obtain a high resolution image by covering a low resolution sensor with a non-regular…
We proposed a novel approach to coherent imaging of dynamic samples. The inter-frame similarity of the sample's local structures is found to be a powerful constraint in phasing a sequence of diffraction patterns. We devised a new image…