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Over the last decades, the total variation (TV) evolved to one of the most broadly-used regularisation functionals for inverse problems, in particular for imaging applications. When first introduced as a regulariser, higher-order…
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) enables fast and low-dose CT imaging, an essential feature for patient-save medical imaging and rapid non-destructive testing. In sparse-view CT, only a few projection views are acquired, causing…
Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…
Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods are studied extensively for X-ray computed tomography (CT) due to the potential of acquiring CT scans with reduced X-ray dose while maintaining image quality. However, the longer reconstruction…
Ptychography is a powerful computational imaging technique that transforms a collection of low-resolution images into a high-resolution sample reconstruction. Unfortunately, algorithms that are currently used to solve this reconstruction…
Although sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has significantly reduced radiation dose, it also introduces severe artifacts which degrade the image quality. In recent years, deep learning-based methods for inverse problems have made…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing demand for portable CT machines worldwide in order to diagnose patients in a variety of settings. This has led to a need for CT image reconstruction algorithms that can produce high…
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) aims to minimize the radiation exposure to patients while maintaining diagnostic image quality. However, traditional CT reconstruction algorithms often struggle with the ill-posed nature of the problem,…
Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…
Multidimensional imaging, capturing image data in more than two dimensions, has been an emerging field with diverse applications. Due to the limitation of two-dimensional detectors in obtaining the high-dimensional image data, computational…
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of widely used diagnostic tools for medical and dental tomographic imaging of the human body. However, the standard filtered backprojection reconstruction method requires the complete knowledge of the…
A new method for reducing metal artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) images is presented. It bases on the solution of a convex optimization problem with inequality constraints on the sinogram, and total variation regularization for…
In this article, we present a denoising algorithm to improve the interpretation and quality of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. Given the high level of self-similarity of STM images, we propose a denoising algorithm by…
Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used non-invasive diagnostic method in various fields, and recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in CT image reconstruction. However, the lack of large-scale, open-access…
As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…
We develop a data-driven regularization method for the severely ill-posed problem of photoacoustic image reconstruction from limited view data. Our approach is based on the regularizing networks that have been recently introduced and…
In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…
The 3-D total variation (3DTV) is a powerful regularization term, which encodes the local smoothness prior structure underlying a hyper-spectral image (HSI), for general HSI processing tasks. This term is calculated by assuming identical…
In computed tomography (CT), the forward model consists of a linear Radon transform followed by an exponential nonlinearity based on the attenuation of light according to the Beer-Lambert Law. Conventional reconstruction often involves…
Model-based learned iterative reconstruction methods have recently been shown to outperform classical reconstruction algorithms. Applicability of these methods to large scale inverse problems is however limited by the available memory for…