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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…

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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…

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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Hung Nien , Jeffrey A. Fessler

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Shuo Xu , Yucheng Zhang , Gang Chen , Xincheng Xiang , Peng Cong , Yuewen Sun

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Mai Phuong Pham Huynh , Manuel Santana , Ana Castillo

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,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Daisy Chen

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…

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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Didem Dogan , Figen S. Oktem

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Clemens Schiffer , Kristian Bredies

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 João P. Oliveira , Ana Bragança , José Bioucas-Dias , Mário Figueiredo , Luís Alcácer , Jorge Morgado , Quirina Ferreira

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…

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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Johannes Schwab , Stephan Antholzer , Robert Nuster , Günther Paltauf , Markus Haltmeier

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Jiangjun Peng , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yao Wang , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sara Fridovich-Keil , Fabrizio Valdivia , Gordon Wetzstein , Benjamin Recht , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Andreas Hauptmann , Jonas Adler , Simon Arridge , Ozan Öktem