English
Related papers

Related papers: A Volume Clearing Algorithm for Muon Tomography

200 papers

Our understanding of organs at risk is progressing to include physical small tissues such as coronary arteries and the radiosensitivities of many small organs and tissues are high. Therefore, the accurate segmentation of small volumes in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Jianxin Zhou , Kadishe Fejza , Massimiliano Salvatori , Daniele Della Latta , Gregory M. Hermann , Angela Di Fulvio

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is essential for quantitative analyses of cortical thickness and sulcal morphology. Although traditional and deep learning-based algorithmic pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

We describe a software package, TomOpt, developed to optimise the geometrical layout and specifications of detectors designed for tomography by scattering of cosmic-ray muons. The software exploits differentiable programming for the…

We present MV2Cyl, a novel method for reconstructing 3D from 2D multi-view images, not merely as a field or raw geometry but as a sketch-extrude CAD model. Extracting extrusion cylinders from raw 3D geometry has been extensively researched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Eunji Hong , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Minhyuk Sung

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Yihan Zhou , Haocheng Huang , Yue Yu , Jianhui Shang

In this report, we assess muon multiple scattering tomography as a non-destructive inspection technique in several typical areas of interest to the nuclear power industry, including monitoring concrete degradation, gate valve conditions,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-27 J. M. Durham , E. Guardincerri , C. L. Morris , J. Bacon , J. Fabritius , S. Fellows , K. Plaud-Ramos , D. Poulson , J. Renshaw

DeepSeek-OCR leverages visual-text compression to reduce long-text processing costs and accelerate inference, yet visual tokens remain prone to redundant textual and structural information. Moreover, current token pruning methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ben Wan , Yan Feng , Zihan Tang , Weizhe Huang , Yuting Zeng , Jia Wang , Tongxuan Liu

Vision encoders serve as the cornerstone of multimodal understanding. Single-encoder architectures like CLIP exhibit inherent constraints in generalizing across diverse multimodal tasks, while recent multi-encoder fusion methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuchen Liu , Yaoming Wang , Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yinghe Qi , Jiacai Lu , Ruben Scardovelli , Stephane Zaleski , Gretar Tryggvason

Ray tracing is an essential operation for realistic image synthesis. The acceleration of ray tracing has been studied for a long period of time because algorithms such as light transport simulations require a large amount of ray tracing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Atsushi Yoshimura , Takahiro Harada

An algorithm is presented, that provides a fast and robust reconstruction of neutrino induced upward-going muons and a discrimination of these events from downward-going atmospheric muon background in data collected by the ANTARES neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 ANTARES collaboration , J. A. Aguilar , I. Al Samarai , A. Albert , M. Andre , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , S. Anvar , M. Ardid , A. C. Assis Jesus , T. Astraatmadja , J-J. Aubert , R. Auer , B. Baret , S. Basa , M. Bazzotti , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , C. Bigongiari , C. Bogazzi , M. Bou-Cabo , M. C. Bouwhuis , A. M. Brown , J. Brunner , J. Busto , F. Camarena , A. Capone , C. Carloganu , G. Carminati , J. Carr , S. Cecchini , Ph. Charvis , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , N. Cottini , P. Coyle , C. Curtil , M. P. Decowski , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , C. Distefano , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , Q. Dorosti , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , U. Emanuele , J-P. Ernenwein , S. Escoffier , F. Fehr , V. Flaminio , U. Fritsch , J-L. Fuda , S. Galata , P. Gay , G. Giacomelli , J. P. Gomez-Gonzalez , K. Graf , G. Guillard , G. Halladjian , G. Hallewell , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernandez-Rey , B. Herold , J. Hößl , C. C. Hsu , M. de Jong , M. Kadler , N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki , O. Kalekin , A. Kappes , U. Katz , P. Kooijman , C. Kopper , A. Kouchner , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , P. Lamare , G. Larosa , D. Lefevre , G. Lim , D. Lo Presti , H. Loehner , S. Loucatos , F. Lucarelli , S. Mangano , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , J. A. Martinez-Mora , A. Mazure , A. Meli , T. Montaruli , M. Morganti , L. Moscoso , H. Motz , C. Naumann , M. Neff , D. Palioselitis , G. E. Pavalas , P. Payre , J. Petrovic , N. Picot-Clemente , C. Picq , V. Popa , T. Pradier , E. Presani , C. Racca , C. Reed , G. Riccobene , C. Richardt , R. Richter , A. Rostovtsev , M. Rujoiu , G. V. Russo , F. Salesa , P. Sapienza , F. Schöck , J-P. Schuller , R. Shanidze , F. Simeone , A. Spiess , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , L. Tasca , S. Toscano , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , G. Vannoni , M. Vecchi , P. Vernin , G. Wijnker , E. de Wolf , H. Yepes , D. Zaborov , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zuniga

We propose a method to efficiently compute tomographic projections of a 3D volume represented by a linear combination of shifted B-splines. To do so, we propose a ray-tracing algorithm that computes 3D line integrals with arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Youssef Haouchat , Sepand Kashani , Aleix Boquet-Pujadas , Philippe Thévenaz , Michael Unser

Partial voluming (PV) is arguably the last crucial unsolved problem in Bayesian segmentation of brain MRI with probabilistic atlases. PV occurs when voxels contain multiple tissue classes, giving rise to image intensities that may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Benjamin Billot , Eleanor D. Robinson , Adrian V. Dalca , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere result in a flux of secondary particles including muons and electrons. Atmospheric ray tomography (ART) uses the muons and electrons for detecting objects and their composition. This paper…

We present a method for microtubule tracking in electron microscopy volumes. Our method first identifies a sparse set of voxels that likely belong to microtubules. Similar to prior work, we then enumerate potential edges between these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Nils Eckstein , Julia Buhmann , Matthew Cook , Jan Funke

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on dense visual tokens to capture fine-grained visual information, but processing all these tokens incurs substantial computational and memory overhead during inference. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xu Li , Yi Zheng , Yuxuan Liang , Zhe Liu , Xiaolei Chen , Haotian Chen , Rui Zhu , Xiangyang Xue

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at image understanding tasks, but the large number of visual tokens imposes significant computational costs, hindering deployment on mobile devices. Many pruning methods rely solely on token importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhenkai Wu , Xiaowen Ma , Zhenliang Ni , Dengming Zhang , Han Shu , Xin Jiang , Xinghao Chen

Deep learning-based automated contouring and treatment planning has been proven to improve the efficiency and accuracy of radiotherapy. However, conventional radiotherapy treatment planning process has the automated contouring and treatment…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Sangwook Kim , Aly Khalifa , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh

Muon Tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons in matter is a promising technique for detecting heavily shielded high-Z radioactive materials (U, Pu) in cargo or vehicles. The technique uses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Leonard V. Grasso , Marcus Hohlmann , Judson B. Locke , Amilkar S. Quintero , Debasis Mitra

The online reconstruction of muon tracks in High Energy Physics experiments is a highly demanding task, typically performed with programmable logic boards, such as FPGAs. Complex analytical algorithms are executed in a quasi-real-time…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-21 Matteo Migliorini , Jacopo Pazzini , Andrea Triossi , Marco Zanetti , Alberto Zucchetta