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Large high-quality medical image datasets are difficult to acquire but necessary for many deep learning applications. For positron emission tomography (PET), reconstructed image quality is limited by inherent Poisson noise. We propose a…

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is a vital tool in medical diagnostics, offering detailed insights into molecular processes within the human body. However, PET images often suffer from complicated noise, which can obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuehua Ye , Hongxu Yang , Adam J. Schwarz

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

In this article, two closed and convex sets for blind deconvolution problem are proposed. Most blurring functions in microscopy are symmetric with respect to the origin. Therefore, they do not modify the phase of the Fourier transform (FT)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Mohammad Tofighi , Onur Yorulmaz , A. Enis Cetin

Image blur and image noise are imaging artifacts intrinsically arising in image acquisition. In this paper, we consider multi-frame blind deconvolution (MFBD), where image blur is described by the convolution of an unobservable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Leonid Kostrykin , Stefan Harmeling

Although supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often outperform conventional alternatives for denoising positron emission tomography (PET) images, they require many low- and high-quality reference PET image pairs. Herein, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yuya Onishi , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Hiroyuki Ohba , Ryosuke Ota , Etsuji Yoshikawa , Yasuomi Ouchi

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Blind image deconvolution is the problem of recovering the latent image from the only observed blurry image when the blur kernel is unknown. In this paper, we propose an edge-based blur kernel estimation method for blind motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jing Yu , Zhenchun Chang , Chuangbai Xiao

PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kuang Gong , Jiahui Guan , Kyungsang Kim , Xuezhu Zhang , Georges El Fakhri , Jinyi Qi , Quanzheng Li

Deep image prior (DIP) has recently attracted attention owing to its unsupervised positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction, which does not require any prior training dataset. In this paper, we present the first attempt to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Kibo Ote , Hideaki Tashima , Taiga Yamaya

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the ill-posed blind image deconvolution (blind image deblurring) problem using deep generative networks. We employ two separate deep generative models - one trained to produce sharp images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Blind deconvolution is a technique to recover an original signal without knowing a convolving filter. It is naturally formulated as a minimization of a quartic objective function under some assumption. Because its differentiable part does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Shota Takahashi , Mirai Tanaka , Shiro Ikeda

Anatomically guided PET reconstruction using MRI information has been shown to have the potential to improve PET image quality. However, these improvements are limited to PET scans with paired MRI information. In this work we employed a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Weijie Gan , Huidong Xie , Carl von Gall , Günther Platsch , Michael T. Jurkiewicz , Andrea Andrade , Udunna C. Anazodo , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hongyu An , Jorge Cabello

We address for the first time the issue of motion blur in light field images captured from plenoptic cameras. We propose a solution to the estimation of a sharp high resolution scene radiance given a blurry light field image, when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Paramanand Chandramouli , Paolo Favaro , Daniele Perrone

Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is an emerging imaging modality that maps the spatial distribution of magnetic nanoparticles. The x-space reconstruction in MPI results in highly blurry images, where the resolution depends on both system…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Onur Yorulmaz , Omer Burak Demirel , Yavuz Muslu , Tolga Çukur , Emine U Saritas , A Enis Çetin

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

Blind image deblurring is the process of recovering a sharp image from a blurred one without prior knowledge about the blur kernel. It is a small data problem, since the key challenge lies in estimating the unknown degrees of blur from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Prothito Shovon Majumder , Md. Mosaddek Khan

In this paper, we solve blind image deconvolution problem that is to remove blurs form a signal degraded image without any knowledge of the blur kernel. Since the problem is ill-posed, an image prior plays a significant role in accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 In S. Jeon , Deokyoung Kang , Suk I. Yoo

We propose a very fast and effective one-step restoring method for blurry face images. In the last decades, many blind deblurring algorithms have been proposed to restore latent sharp images. However, these algorithms run slowly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Lingxiao Wang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang