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Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Cross-dose denoising for low-dose positron emission tomography (LDPET) has been proposed to address the limited generalization of models trained at a single noise level. However, neural networks trained on a specific dose level often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Yueyang Teng , Junwen Guo

Restoring high-quality CT images from low dose CT counterparts is an ill-posed, nonlinear problem to which Deep Learning approaches have been giving superior solutions compared to classical model-based approaches. In this article, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Jan Sijbers

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

Deep learning (DL) has arguably emerged as the method of choice for the detection and segmentation of biological structures in microscopy images. However, DL typically needs copious amounts of annotated training data that is for biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Mangal Prakash , Tim-Oliver Buchholz , Manan Lalit , Pavel Tomancak , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

This paper proposes a learning-based denoising method called FlashLight CNN (FLCNN) that implements a deep neural network for image denoising. The proposed approach is based on deep residual networks and inception networks and it is able to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Pham Huu Thanh Binh , Cristóvão Cruz , Karen Egiazarian

Computed tomography (CT) has been used worldwide as a non-invasive test to assist in diagnosis. However, the ionizing nature of X-ray exposure raises concerns about potential health risks such as cancer. The desire for lower radiation doses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Yucheng Lu , Zhixin Xu , Moon Hyung Choi , Jimin Kim , Seung-Won Jung

Deep-learning-based methods for different applications have been shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. These examples make deployment of such models in safety-critical tasks questionable. Use of deep neural networks as inverse problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ankit Raj , Yoram Bresler , Bo Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great superiority in lesion detection, tissue characterization and material decomposition. To further extend its potential clinical applications, in this work, we propose an improved tensor dictionary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Weiwen Wu , Yanbo Zhang , Qian Wang , Fenglin Liu , Peijun Chen , Hengyong Yu

Existing unpaired low-light image enhancement approaches prefer to employ the two-way GAN framework, in which two CNN generators are deployed for enhancement and degradation separately. However, such data-driven models ignore the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jize Zhang , Haolin Wang , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Image denoising is a classical problem in low level computer vision. Model-based optimization methods and deep learning approaches have been the two main strategies for solving the problem. Model-based optimization methods are flexible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chang Liu , Zhaowei Shang , Anyong Qin

Being low-level radiation exposure and less harmful to health, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been widely adopted in the early screening of lung cancer and COVID-19. LDCT images inevitably suffer from the degradation problem caused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kecheng Chen , Jiayu Sun , Jiang Shen , Jixiang Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Xuelin Pan , Dongsheng Wu , Yue Zhao , Miguel Bento , Yazhou Ren , Xiaorong Pu

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

Recently, some research show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to the adversarial attacks, the well-trainned samples or patches could be used to trick the neural network detector or human visual perception. However, these adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xianyi Chen , Fazhan Liu , Dong Jiang , Kai Yan

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Low-light raw denoising is an important and valuable task in computational photography where learning-based methods trained with paired real data are mainstream. However, the limited data volume and complicated noise distribution have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Yuzhi Wang , Hua Huang

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

The unrolling method has been investigated for learning variational models in X-ray computed tomography. However, it has been observed that directly unrolling the regularization model through gradient descent does not produce satisfactory…

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