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The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

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Cell tracking enables data extraction from time-lapse "cell movies" and promotes modeling biological processes at the single-cell level. We introduce a new fully automated computational strategy to track accurately cells across frames in…

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The transport of bio-particles in viscous flows exhibits a rich variety of dynamical behaviour, such as morphological transitions, complex orientation dynamics or deformations. Characterising such complex behaviour under well controlled…

How to extract more and useful information for single image super resolution is an imperative and difficult problem. Learning-based method is a representative method for such task. However, the results are not so stable as there may exist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Hu Liang , Shengrong Zhao

To correct for respiratory motion in PET imaging, an interpretable and unsupervised deep learning technique, FlowNet-PET, was constructed. The network was trained to predict the optical flow between two PET frames from different breathing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Teaghan O'Briain , Carlos Uribe , Kwang Moo Yi , Jonas Teuwen , Ioannis Sechopoulos , Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

Tumor segmentation in whole-body PET/CT imaging is crucial for precise disease evaluation and treatment planning. However, it remains challenging due to variability in lesion size, contrast, and anatomical distribution. Relying on manual…

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The accurate tracking of live cells using video microscopy recordings remains a challenging task for popular state-of-the-art image processing based object tracking methods. In recent years, several existing and new applications have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Gergely Szabó , Paolo Bonaiuti , Andrea Ciliberto , András Horváth

Man-made environments typically comprise planar structures that exhibit numerous geometric relationships, such as parallelism, coplanarity, and orthogonality. Making full use of these relationships can considerably improve the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yangbin Lin , Jialian Li , Cheng Wang , Zhonggui Chen , Zongyue Wang , Jonathan Li

This paper presents a method which can track and 3D reconstruct the non-rigid surface motion of human performance using a moving RGB-D camera. 3D reconstruction of marker-less human performance is a challenging problem due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shafeeq Elanattil , Peyman Moghadam , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

In a recurrent setting, conventional approaches to neural architecture search find and fix a general model for all data samples and time steps. We propose a novel algorithm that can dynamically search for the structure of cells in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xin Qian , Matthew Kennedy , Diego Klabjan

Adherent cells exert traction forces on to their environment, which allows them to migrate, to maintain tissue integrity, and to form complex multicellular structures. This traction can be measured in a perturbation-free manner with…

We introduce a novel gene regulatory network (GRN) inference method that integrates optimal transport (OT) with a deep-learning structural inference model. Advances in next-generation sequencing enable detailed yet destructive gene…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tsz Pan Tong , Aoran Wang , George Panagopoulos , Jun Pang

Single Particle Tracking (SPT) can aid in understanding complex spatio-temporal processes. However, quantifying diffusivity and forces from individual live cell trajectories is complicated by inter- & intra-trajectory kinetic heterogeneity,…

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Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jussi Toivanen , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Ville Kolehmainen

Patient motion is well-known for degrading image quality during medical imaging. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) is susceptible to motion due to its usually long scan times. In hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Lynn Johann Frohwein , Florian Büther , Klaus Peter Schäfers

Cell migration, which is strictly regulated by intracellular and extracellular cues, is crucial for normal physiological processes and the progression of certain diseases. However, there is a lack of an efficient approach to analyze…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yanping Liu , Dui Qin , Xinwei Li , Guoqiang Li , Zhichao Liu , Kena Song , Wei Wang , Zhangyong Li

Dynamic inverse problems are challenging to solve due to the need to identify and incorporate appropriate regularization in both space and time. Moreover, the very large scale nature of such problems in practice presents an enormous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Toluwani Okunola , Mirjeta Pasha , Misha Kilmer , Melina Freitag

Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) is an imaging method that tracks individual radioactive particles. PEPT relies on the detection of back-to-back photon pairs emitted by positron annihilation. It requires an algorithm to locate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 Sam Manger , Antoine Renaud , Jacques Vanneste

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elie Attias , Cengiz Pehlevan , Dina Obeid

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader