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Computed tomography (CT) images are often severely corrupted by artifacts in the presence of metals. Existing supervised metal artifact reduction (MAR) approaches suffer from performance instability on known data due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jie Wen , Chenhe Du , Xiao Wang , Yuyao Zhang

Photon-counting spectral computed tomography is now clinically available. These new detectors come with the promise of higher contrast-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution and improved low-dose imaging. However, one important design…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Dennis Hein , Konstantinos Liappis , Fredrik Grönberg , Alma Eguizabal , Mats Persson

Markov random fields (MRFs) have been widely used as prior models in various inverse problems such as tomographic reconstruction. While MRFs provide a simple and often effective way to model the spatial dependencies in images, they suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Ruoqiao Zhang , Dong Hye Ye , Debashish Pal , Jean-Baptiste Thibault , Ken D. Sauer , Charles A. Bouman

In computed tomography imaging, metal implants frequently generate severe artifacts that compromise image quality and hinder diagnostic accuracy. There are three main challenges in the existing methods: the deterioration of organ and tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Weikai Qu , Sijun Liang , Xianfeng Li , Cheng Pan , An Yan , Ahmed Elazab , Shanzhou Niu , Dong Zeng , Xiang Wan , Changmiao Wang

We present ${\tt MrMARTIAN}$ (Multi-resolution MAximum-entropy Reconstruction Technique Integrating Analytic Node), a new hybrid strong lensing (SL) modeling algorithm. By incorporating physically motivated analytic nodes into the free-form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Sangjun Cha , M. James Jee

We consider the task of image reconstruction while simultaneously decomposing the reconstructed image into components with different features. A commonly used tool for this is a variational approach with an infimal convolution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Tobias Wolf , Derek Driggs , Kostas Papafitsoros , Elena Resmerita , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

A two-step shape reconstruction method for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is presented which uses adjoint fields and level sets. The propagation of near-infrared photons in tissue is modeled by the time-dependent linear transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Oliver Dorn

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of widely used diagnostic tools for medical and dental tomographic imaging of the human body. However, the standard filtered backprojection reconstruction method requires the complete knowledge of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

Reliable brain tumor segmentation in MRI is indispensable for treatment planning and outcome monitoring, yet models trained on curated benchmarks often fail under domain shifts arising from scanner and protocol variability as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuanhan Wang , Yifei Chen , Shuo Jiang , Wenjing Yu , Mingxuan Liu , Beining Wu , Jinying Zong , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang , Qiyuan Tian

In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm, restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), is introduced. The algorithm is applied for the spectral classification in astronomy. RBM is a bipartite generative graphical model with two separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Fuqiang Chen , Yan Wu , Yude Bu , Guodong Zhao

This paper deals with a method of tomographic reconstruction of radially symmetric objects from a single radiograph, in order to study the behavior of shocked material. The usual tomographic reconstruction algorithms such as generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Isabelle Abraham , Romain Abraham , Maitine Bergounioux

The amount of medical images stored in hospitals is increasing faster than ever; however, utilizing the accumulated medical images has been limited. This is because existing content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) systems usually…

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Carolin Schmitt , Božidar Antić , Andrei Neculai , Joo Ho Lee , Andreas Geiger

The aim of this paper is to test and analyze a novel technique for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography, which is based on (total variation) regularization on both the image space and the projection space. We formulate our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Martin Burger , Jahn Müller , Evangelos Papoutsellis , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

X-ray tomographic image reconstruction consists of determining an object function from its projections. In many applications such as non-destructive testing, we look for a fault region (air) in a homogeneous, known background (metal). The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mohammad-Djafari , Ken Sauer

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used non-invasive diagnostic method in various fields, and recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in CT image reconstruction. However, the lack of large-scale, open-access…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Zakhar Shumaylov , Ferdia Sherry , K. Joost Batenburg , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Felix Lucka

Phase-wrapping artifacts, statistical image noise and the need for a minimum amount of phase steps per projection limit the practicability of x-ray grating based phase-contrast tomography, when using filtered back projection reconstruction.…

One-sided ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation (UNDE) is extensively used to characterize structures that need to be inspected and maintained from defects and flaws that could affect the performance of power plants, such as nuclear power…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-13 Hani Almansouri , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Charles Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

Purpose: In many clinical MRI scenarios, existing imaging information can be used to significantly shorten acquisition time or to improve Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). In this paper the authors present a framework for fast MRI by exploiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Lior Weizman , Yonina C. Eldar , Dafna Ben-Basaht

Small animal PET scanners require high spatial resolution and good sensitivity. To reconstruct high-resolution images in 3D-PET, iterative methods, such as OSEM, are superior to analytical reconstruction algorithms, although their high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Herraiz , S. Espana , J. J. Vaquero , M. Desco , J. M. Udias