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This paper presents a robust multi-domain network designed to restore low-quality amyloid PET images acquired in a short period of time. The proposed method is trained on pairs of PET images from short (2 minutes) and standard (20 minutes)…

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The automated segmentation and tracking of macrophages during their migration are challenging tasks due to their dynamically changing shapes and motions. This paper proposes a new algorithm to achieve automatic cell tracking in time-lapse…

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As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

Protocol optimization is critical in Computed Tomography (CT) to achieve high diagnostic image quality while minimizing radiation dose. However, due to the complex interdependencies among CT acquisition and reconstruction parameters,…

The success of embolisation, a minimally invasive treatment of liver cancer, could be evaluated in the operational room with cone-beam CT by acquiring a dynamic perfusion scan. The reconstruction algorithm must address the issues of low…

Cell tracking is a subject of active research gathering great interest in medicine and biology. Positron emission tomography (PET) is well suited for tracking radio-labeled cells in vivo due to its exceptional sensitivity and whole-body…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Nils Marquardt , Tobias Hengsbach , Marco Mauritz , Benedikt Wirth , Klaus Schäfers

Dynamic imaging is critical for understanding and visualizing dynamic biological processes in medicine and cell biology. These applications often encounter the challenge of a limited amount of time series data and time points, which hinders…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Sven Dummer , Puru Vaish , Christoph Brune

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) construct invertible mappings between an arbitrary complex distribution and an isotropic Gaussian distribution using Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (neural ODEs). It has not been tractable on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shian Du , Yihong Luo , Wei Chen , Jian Xu , Delu Zeng

We present a convex approach to probabilistic segmentation and modeling of time series data. Our approach builds upon recent advances in multivariate total variation regularization, and seeks to learn a separate set of parameters for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-17 Matt Wytock , J. Zico Kolter

Tracking cells in time-lapse videos is an essential technique for monitoring cell population dynamics at a single-cell level. Current methods for cell tracking are developed on videos with mostly single, constant signals and do not detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Florian Bürger , Martim Dias Gomes , Nica Gutu , Adrián E. Granada , Noémie Moreau , Katarzyna Bozek

DNA replication stands as one of the fundamental biological processes crucial for cellular functioning. Recent experimental developments enable the study of replication dynamics at the single-molecule level for complete genomes,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Clara Lage , Nelly Pustelnik , Benjamin Audit , Jean-Michel Arbona , Rémi Gribonval

Our work targets automated analysis to quantify the growth dynamics of a population of bacilliform bacteria. We propose an innovative approach to frame-sequence tracking of deformable-cell motion by the automated minimization of a new,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sorena Sarmadi , James J. Winkle , Razan N. Alnahhas , Matthew R. Bennett , Krešimir Josić , Andreas Mang , Robert Azencott

Neural networks have been proposed for medical image registration by learning, with a substantial amount of training data, the optimal transformations between image pairs. These trained networks can further be optimized on a single pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zachary MC Baum , Yipeng Hu , Dean C Barratt

We present a novel approach for the reconstruction of dynamic geometric shapes using a single hand-held consumer-grade RGB-D sensor at real-time rates. Our method does not require a pre-defined shape template to start with and builds up the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Matthias Innmann , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner , Christian Theobalt , Marc Stamminger

Dynamic positron emission tomography imaging (dPET) provides temporally resolved images of a tracer enabling a quantitative measure of physiological processes. Voxel-wise physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling of the time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Francesca De Benetti , Walter Simson , Magdalini Paschali , Hasan Sari , Axel Romiger , Kuangyu Shi , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler

In a number of tomographic applications, data cannot be fully acquired, resulting in a severely underdetermined image reconstruction. In such cases, conventional methods lead to reconstructions with significant artifacts. To overcome these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Simon Göppel , Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier

Time-of-flight (TOF) information provides more accurate location data for annihilation photons, thereby enhancing the quality of PET reconstruction images and reducing noise. List-mode reconstruction has a significant advantage in handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Rui Hu , Chenxu Li , Kun Tian , Jianan Cui , Yunmei Chen , Huafeng Liu

PET imaging is widely employed for observing biological metabolic activities within the human body. However, numerous benign conditions can cause increased uptake of radiopharmaceuticals, confounding differentiation from malignant tumors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ran Hong , Yuxia Huang , Lei Liu , Zhonghui Wu , Bingxuan Li , Xuemei Wang , Qiegen Liu

Recent technical advances lead to the coupling of PET and MRI scanners, enabling to acquire functional and anatomical data simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a tight frame based PET-MRI joint reconstruction model via the joint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Jae Kyu Choi , Chenglong Bao , Xiaoqun Zhang

Tracking the 6D pose of objects in video sequences is important for robot manipulation. This task, however, introduces multiple challenges: (i) robot manipulation involves significant occlusions; (ii) data and annotations are troublesome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Bowen Wen , Chaitanya Mitash , Baozhang Ren , Kostas E. Bekris