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Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

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Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) has potential of providing high contrast images for breast tumor detection. Computational phantom provides a convenient way to a wide variety of fluorophore distribution configurations in patients and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Yansong Zhu , Abhinav K. Jha , Arman Rahmim

Maximum likelihood iteration is one of the most commonly used reconstruction algorithms in quantum tomography. The main appeal of the method is that it is easy to implement and that it converges reliably to a physically meaningful density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Florian Oberender

The reconstruction of images from a small number of projections using the maximum-entropy method (MEM) with the Shannon entropy is considered. MEM provides higher-quality image reconstruction for sources with extended components than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anisa T. Bajkova

The observations in many applications consist of counts of discrete events, such as photons hitting a detector, which cannot be effectively modeled using an additive bounded or Gaussian noise model, and instead require a Poisson noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-13 Zachary T. Harmany , Roummel F. Marcia , Rebecca M. Willett

We present a noise-injected version of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm: the Noisy Expectation Maximization (NEM) algorithm. The NEM algorithm uses noise to speed up the convergence of the EM algorithm. The NEM theorem shows that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-15 Osonde Osoba , Bart Kosko

We develop and evaluate MlPET, a fast localized machine learning approach for probabilistic PET image analysis addressing the noise-resolution trade-off in conventional reconstructions. MlPET replaces computationally demanding Markov chain…

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This paper discusses the reconstruction of partially sampled spectrum-images to accelerate the acquisition in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The problem of image reconstruction has been widely considered in the literature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Etienne Monier , Thomas Oberlin , Nathalie Brun , Xiaoyan Li , Marcel Tencé , Nicolas Dobigeon

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in clinical diagnostics, yet it remains hindered by long acquisition times and motion artifacts. Multi-contrast MRI reconstruction has emerged as a promising direction by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xinming Fang , Chaoyan Huang , Juncheng Li , Jun Wang , Jun Shi , Guixu Zhang

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT) is a promising technique for non-invasive 3D visualization of fluorescent probes, but its reconstruction remains challenging due to the inherent ill-posedness and reliance on inaccurate or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Shihan Zhao , Jianru Zhang , Yanan Wu , Linlin Li , Siyuan Shen , Xingjun Zhu , Guoyan Zheng , Jiahua Jiang , Wuwei Ren

Wavelet functions allow the sparse and efficient representation of a signal at different scales. Recently the application of wavelets to the denoising of maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations has been proposed. The…

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We are motivated by problems that arise in a number of applications such as Online Marketing and explosives detection, where the observations are usually modeled using Poisson statistics. We model each observation as a Poisson random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-17 D. Motamedvaziri , M. H. Rohban , V. Saligrama

This paper presents a fast computational method, the Expectation Maximization algorithm, for Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation in diffusion tensor imaging under the Rice noise model. We further extend the ML framework to the maximum a…

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This paper describes a fast algorithm for recovering low-rank matrices from their linear measurements contaminated with Poisson noise: the Poisson noise Maximum Likelihood Singular Value thresholding (PMLSV) algorithm. We propose a convex…

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We propose an image deconvolution algorithm when the data is contaminated by Poisson noise. The image to restore is assumed to be sparsely represented in a dictionary of waveforms such as the wavelet or curvelet transforms. Our key…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

We consider the inpainting problem for noisy images. It is very challenge to suppress noise when image inpainting is processed. An image patches based nonlocal variational method is proposed to simultaneously inpainting and denoising in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Wei Wan , Jun Liu

While energy-based models (EBMs) exhibit a number of desirable properties, training and sampling on high-dimensional datasets remains challenging. Inspired by recent progress on diffusion probabilistic models, we present a diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ruiqi Gao , Yang Song , Ben Poole , Ying Nian Wu , Diederik P. Kingma

Image enhancement approaches often assume that the noise is signal independent, and approximate the degradation model as zero-mean additive Gaussian. However, this assumption does not hold for biomedical imaging systems where sensor-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Calvin-Khang Ta , Abhishek Aich , Akash Gupta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury