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Single-bed whole-body positron emission tomography based on resistive plate chamber detectors (RPC-PET) has been proposed for human studies, as a complementary resource to scintillator-based PET scanners. The purpose of this work is mainly…

Medical imaging is an invaluable resource in medicine as it enables to peer inside the human body and provides scientists and physicians with a wealth of information indispensable for understanding, modelling, diagnosis, and treatment of…

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One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data. It is proven that classical data augmentation methods are useful but still limited due to the huge variation in images. Using generative adversarial networks (GAN) is a…

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Positron emission tomography(PET) image reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers from high level of noise due to limited counts received. Recently deep neural networks especially convolutional neural networks(CNN) have…

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Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bin Huang , Binzhong He , Yanhan Chen , Zhili Liu , Xinyue Wang , Binxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Generating positron emission tomography (PET) images from computed tomography (CT) scans via deep learning offers a promising pathway to reduce radiation exposure and costs associated with PET imaging, improving patient care and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Valerio Guarrasi , Francesco Di Feola , Rebecca Restivo , Lorenzo Tronchin , Paolo Soda

Tumor segmentation in medical imaging is crucial and relies on precise delineation. Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron-Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) is widely used in clinical practice to detect metabolically active tumors. However, FDG-PET scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Matthias Hadlich , Zdravko Marinov , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used, highly sensitive molecular imaging in clinical diagnosis. There is interest in reducing the radiation exposure from PET but also maintaining adequate image quality. Recent methods using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuxin Xue , Lei Bi , Yige Peng , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data and annotated data. It is proven that classical segmentation methods such as U-NET are useful but still limited due to the lack of annotated data. Using a weakly supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Amine Amyar , Romain Modzelewski , Pierre Vera , Vincent Morard , Su Ruan

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an advanced medical imaging technique that plays a crucial role in non-invasive clinical diagnosis. However, while reducing radiation exposure through low-dose PET scans is beneficial for patient…

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Differentiable rendering has been widely adopted in computer graphics as a powerful approach to inverse problems, enabling efficient gradient-based optimization by differentiating the image formation process with respect to millions of…

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a key nuclear medicine imaging modality that visualizes radiotracer distributions to quantify in vivo physiological and metabolic processes, playing an irreplaceable role in disease management. Despite…

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Positron range (PR) limits spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy in PET imaging, particularly for high-energy positron-emitting radionuclides like 68Ga. We propose a deep learning method using 3D residual encoder-decoder…

An image or volume of interest in positron emission tomography (PET) is reconstructed from pairs of gamma rays emitted from a radioactive substance. Many image reconstruction methods are based on estimation of pixels or voxels on some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Azra Tafro , Damir Seršić , Ana Sović Kržić

Historically, patient datasets have been used to develop and validate various reconstruction algorithms for PET/MRI and PET/CT. To enable such algorithm development, without the need for acquiring hundreds of patient exams, in this paper we…

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images while minimizing radiation exposure, various methods have been proposed for reconstructing standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) sinograms directly.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Cui , Pinxian Zeng , Xinyi Zeng , Peng Wang , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Deep image prior (DIP) has been successfully applied to positron emission tomography (PET) image restoration, enabling represent implicit prior using only convolutional neural network architecture without training dataset, whereas the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yuya Onishi , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Keisuke Matsubara , Masanobu Ibaraki

We develop a novel deep contour detection algorithm with a top-down fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. Our proposed method, named TD-CEDN, solves two important issues in this low-level vision problem: (1) learning multi-scale and…

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