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Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

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Using recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models, this paper introduces a new synergistic method for spectral computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Diffusion models define a neural network to…

Image retargeting aims at altering an image size while preserving important content and minimizing noticeable distortions. However, previous image retargeting methods create outputs that suffer from artifacts and distortions. Besides, most…

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Lenses that can collect the perfect image of an object must restore propagative and evanescent waves. However, for efficient information transfer, e.g., in compressed sensing, it is often desirable to detect only the fast spatial variations…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-01 Miguel Molerón , Chiara Daraio

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to reconstruct the absorption coefficient by fluorescence photoacoustic tomography (FPAT), which combines a squeeze iterative method (SIM) and a nonlinear optimization method. The SIM is to use two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Chao Wang , Tie Zhou

Cryogenic electron tomography is a technique for imaging biological samples in 3D. A microscope collects a series of 2D projections of the sample, and the goal is to reconstruct the 3D density of the sample called the tomogram.…

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The lensless endoscope is a promising device designed to image tissues in vivo at the cellular scale. The traditional acquisition setup consists in raster scanning during which the focused light beam from the optical fiber illuminates…

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In this paper, we present an algorithm for effectively reconstructing an object from a set of its tomographic projections without any knowledge of the viewing directions or any prior structural information, in the presence of pathological…

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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

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

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In a medium where the dielectric permittivity is perturbed in the presence of an acoustic wave, optical scattering generates frequency-shifted light. In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of this…

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Optical diffraction tomography (ODT), initially described in the seminal paper of Emil Wolf [Opt. Comm., 1(4), 153-156 (1969)], has received renewed attention recently. The vast majority of ODT experiments reported to date have been 3D…

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

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This paper considers the non-linear inverse problem of reconstructing an electric conductivity distribution from the interior power density in a bounded domain. Applications include the novel tomographic method known as acousto-electric…

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In ultrasound tomography, the speed of sound inside an object is estimated based on acoustic measurements carried out by sensors surrounding the object. An accurate forward model is a prominent factor for high-quality image reconstruction,…

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We study the problem of reconstructing a signal from its projection on a subspace. The proposed signal reconstruction algorithms utilize a guiding subspace that represents desired properties of reconstructed signals. We show that optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Akshay Gadde , Andrew Knyazev , Dong Tian , Hassan Mansour

We propose a single-snapshot depth-from-defocus (DFD) reconstruction method for coded-aperture imaging that replaces hand-crafted priors with a learned diffusion prior used purely as regularization. Our optimization framework enforces…

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