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Iterative regularization exploits the implicit bias of an optimization algorithm to regularize ill-posed problems. Constructing algorithms with such built-in regularization mechanisms is a classic challenge in inverse problems but also in…

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Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Reconstruction of few-view x-ray Computed Tomography (CT) data is a highly ill-posed problem. It is often used in applications that require low radiation dose in clinical CT, rapid industrial scanning, or fixed-gantry CT. Existing analytic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Hyojin Kim , Rushil Anirudh , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley

Many problems arising in image processing and signal recovery with multi-regularization can be formulated as minimization of a sum of three convex separable functions. Typically, the objective function involves a smooth function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical…

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Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

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We address the optimization problem in a data-driven variational reconstruction framework, where the regularizer is parameterized by an input-convex neural network (ICNN). While gradient-based methods are commonly used to solve such…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

In this paper, we study the problem of image recovery from given partial (corrupted) observations. Recovering an image using a low-rank model has been an active research area in data analysis and machine learning. But often, images are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Pawan Goyal , Hussam Al Daas , Peter Benner

Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Meaney , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Samuli Siltanen

Low-dose Computed Tomography is a common issue in reality. Current reduction, sparse sampling and limited-view scanning can all cause it. Between them, limited-view CT is general in the industry due to inevitable mechanical and physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Ken Deng , Chang Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

We propose a new image restoration model based on the minimized surface regularization. The proposed model closely relates to the classical smoothing ROF model \cite{4}. We can reformulate the proposed model as a min-max problem and solve…

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Focus of this work is solving a non-smooth constraint minimization problem by a primal-dual splitting algorithm involving proximity operators. The problem is penalized by the Bregman divergence associated with the non-smooth total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Erdem Altuntac

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

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We derive a memory-efficient first-order variable splitting algorithm for convex image reconstruction problems with non-smooth regularization terms. The algorithm is based on a primal-dual approach, where one of the dual variables is…

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Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…

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Low-dose CT imaging requires reconstruction from noisy indirect measurements which can be defined as an ill-posed linear inverse problem. In addition to conventional FBP method in CT imaging, recent compressed sensing based methods exploit…

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Owing to the edge preserving ability and low computational cost of the total variation (TV), variational models with the TV regularization have been widely investigated in the field of multiplicative noise removal. The key points of the…

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In this paper, we consider a primal-dual domain decomposition method for total variation regularized problems appearing in mathematical image processing. The model problem is transformed into an equivalent constrained minimization problem…

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