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Intraoperative CT imaging serves as a crucial resource for surgical guidance; however, it may not always be readily accessible or practical to implement. In scenarios where CT imaging is not an option, reconstructing CT scans from X-rays…

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We consider reconstructing multi-channel images from measurements performed by photon-counting and energy-discriminating detectors in the setting of multi-spectral X-ray computed tomography (CT). Our aim is to exploit the strong structural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Lukas Kiefer , Stefania Petra , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

Recent work in CT imaging has seen increased interest in the use of total variation (TV) and related penalties to regularize problems involving reconstruction from undersampled or incomplete data. Superiorization is a recently proposed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 T. Humphries , J. Winn , A. Faridani

In this work, we propose a new paradigm of iterative model-based reconstruction algorithms for providing real-time solution for zooming-in and refining a region of interest in medical and clinical tomographic images. This algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li

Three-dimensional (3D) object reconstruction based on differentiable rendering (DR) is an active research topic in computer vision. DR-based methods minimize the difference between the rendered and target images by optimizing both the shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chunyu Li , Taisuke Hashimoto , Eiichi Matsumoto , Hiroharu Kato

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging modality for breast imaging. Image reconstruction methods that incorporate accurate wave physics produce high resolution quantitative images of acoustic properties but are computationally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Luke Lozenski , Hanchen Wang , Fu Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin , Umberto Villa

The resurgence of deep neural networks has created an alternative pathway for low-dose computed tomography denoising by learning a nonlinear transformation function between low-dose CT (LDCT) and normal-dose CT (NDCT) image pairs. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Dual energy CT (DECT) enhances tissue characterization because it can produce images of basis materials such as soft-tissue and bone. DECT is of great interest in applications to medical imaging, security inspection and nondestructive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Qiaoqiao Ding , Tianye Niu , Xiaoqun Zhang , Yong Long

Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

To facilitate a prospective estimation of CT effective dose and risk minimization process, a prospective spatial dose estimation and the known anatomical structures are expected. To this end, a CT reconstruction method is required to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Chang Liu , Laura Klein , Yixing Huang , Edith Baader , Michael Lell , Marc Kachelrieß , Andreas Maier

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…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Computed tomography (CT) uses X-ray measurements taken from sensors around the body to generate tomographic images of the human body. Conventional reconstruction algorithms can be used if the X-ray data are adequately sampled and of high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ruiwen Xing , Thomas Humphries , Dong Si

Flash X-ray computed tomography (CT) is an important imaging modality for characterization of high-speed dynamic events, such as Kolsky bar impact experiments for the study of mechanical properties of materials subjected to impulsive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Maliha Hossain , Charles A. Bouman , Brendt Wohlberg

Nano-CT (computerized tomography) has emerged as a non-destructive high-resolution cross-sectional imaging technique to effectively study the sub-$\mu$m pore structure of shale, which is of fundamental importance to the evaluation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Wei Tang , Meng Li

In the last years, the design of image reconstruction methods in the field of quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) has experienced a paradigm shift. Often, when dealing with (quantitative) MR image reconstruction problems, one is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Andreas Kofler , Felix Frederik Zimmermann , Kostas Papafitsoros

In x-ray computed tomography (CT) it is generally acknowledged that reconstruction methods exploiting image sparsity allow reconstruction from a significantly reduced number of projections. The use of such reconstruction methods is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jakob S. Jørgensen , Emil Y. Sidky , Per Christian Hansen , Xiaochuan Pan

Among all tissue imaging modalities, photo-acoustic tomography (PAT) has been getting increasing attention in the recent past due to the fact that it has high contrast, high penetrability, and has capability of retrieving high resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Nadaparambil Aravindakshan Rejesh , Muthuvel Arigovindan

Computed Tomography (CT) imaging technique is widely used in geological exploration, medical diagnosis and other fields. In practice, however, the resolution of CT image is usually limited by scanning devices and great expense. Super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yukai Wang , Qizhi Teng , Xiaohai He , Junxi Feng , Tingrong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new variational model for image reconstruction by minimizing the $L^1$ norm of the \emph{Weingarten map} of image surface $(x,y,f(x,y))$ for a given image $f:{\mathrm{\Omega}}\rightarrow \mathbb R$. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Qiuxiang Zhong , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuping Duan