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We describe an image compression method, consisting of a nonlinear analysis transformation, a uniform quantizer, and a nonlinear synthesis transformation. The transforms are constructed in three successive stages of convolutional linear…

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In this paper, we consider the problem in defocus image deblurring. Previous classical methods follow two-steps approaches, i.e., first defocus map estimation and then the non-blind deblurring. In the era of deep learning, some researchers…

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Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology capable of providing high chemical specificity, which is crucial for many applications such as detecting threats in luggage. This type of application requires both fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Wail Mustafa , Christian Kehl , Ulrik Lund Olsen , Søren Kimmer Schou Gregersen , David Malmgren-Hansen , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

With the advent of advances in self-supervised learning, paired clean-noisy data are no longer required in deep learning-based image denoising. However, existing blind denoising methods still require the assumption with regard to noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Kanggeun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Xin Yi , Paul Babyn

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are susceptible to various noise factors leading to the loss of information, and the noise restricts the subsequent HSIs object detection and classification tasks. In recent years, learning-based methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

In dual-energy computed tomography (DECT), low- and high- kVp data are collected often over a full-angular range (FAR) of $360^\circ$. While there exists strong interest in DECT with low- and high-kVp data acquired over limited-angular…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Buxin Chen , Zheng Zhang , Dan Xia , Emil Y. Sidky , Xiaochuan Pan

Typical convolutional networks are trained and conducted on RGB images. However, images are often compressed for memory savings and efficient transmission in real-world applications. In this paper, we explore methods for performing semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Shao-Yuan Lo , Hsueh-Ming Hang

Many clinical applications depend critically on the accurate differentiation and classification of different types of materials in patient anatomy. This work introduces a unified framework for accurate nonlinear material decomposition and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Wei Zhao , Don Vernekohl , Fei Han , Bin Han , Hao Peng , Lei Xing , James K Min

SPECT (Single-photon Emission Computerized Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) are essential medical imaging tools, for which the sampling angle number, scan time should be chosen carefully to compromise between image quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiaolin Zhou , Minkai Yun , Xuexiang Cao , Shuangquan Liu , Lu Wang , Xianchao Huang , Long Wei

Deep learning-based single image super-resolution enables very fast and high-visual-quality reconstruction. Recently, an enhanced super-resolution based on generative adversarial network (ESRGAN) has achieved excellent performance in terms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Hsiang Lin

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Dirk Elias Schut , Adriaan Graas , Robert van Liere , Tristan van Leeuwen

Depth sectioning in reflection microscopy has predominantly relied on temporal coherence gating. Here we show that volumetric reflection tomography at diffraction-limited resolution can be achieved under monochromatic illumination by…

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

Computed tomography from a low radiation dose (LDCT) is challenging due to high noise in the projection data. Popular approaches for LDCT image reconstruction are two-stage methods, typically consisting of the filtered backprojection (FBP)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Tim Selig , Thomas März , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

We propose a novel image sampling method for differentiable image transformation in deep neural networks. The sampling schemes currently used in deep learning, such as Spatial Transformer Networks, rely on bilinear interpolation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Wei Jiang , Weiwei Sun , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Eduard Trulls , Kwang Moo Yi

The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

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A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

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