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Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are appealing alternatives to proximal algorithms when solving inverse imaging problems. By learning a Deep Neural Network (DNN) denoiser behaving as a proximal operator, one waives the computational…

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Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is a promising tomographic technique for visualizing the spatio-temporal distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticles, with applications ranging from cancer detection to real-time cardiovascular…

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Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is hampered by long scan times and only qualitative image contrasts that prohibit a direct comparison between different systems. To address these limitations, model-based reconstructions…

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The main disadvantage of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are its long scan times and, in consequence, its sensitivity to motion. Exploiting the complementary information from multiple receive coils, parallel imaging is able to recover…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in diagnosis, management and monitoring of many diseases. However, it is an inherently slow imaging technique. Over the last 20 years, parallel imaging, temporal encoding and compressed…

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

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To solve inverse problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods replace the proximal step in a convex optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network (DNN). Although such methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A. Metzler , Philip Schniter

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are extensively used for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with pre-trained deep denoisers as priors. Score-based diffusion models (SBMs) have recently emerged as a…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, where the identification of biomarkers such as the central vein sign benefits from high-resolution images. However, most clinical brain MRI scans are…

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Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a medical imaging modality of recent origin, and it exploits the nonlinear magnetization phenomenon to recover the spatially dependent concentration of the nanoparticles. Currently, image reconstruction in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Tobias Kluth , Bangti Jin

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate various plugins, such as trained deep learning (DL) neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Qifan Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by non-local repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron tomography. Sparse sampling of individual pixels in a 2D image…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the noninvasive imaging modalities that can produce high-quality images. However, the scan procedure is relatively slow, which causes patient discomfort and motion artifacts in images. Accelerating…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is renowned for its exceptional soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution, making it a pivotal tool in medical imaging. The integration of deep learning algorithms offers significant potential for…

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Compressive Sensing (CS) has recently attracted attention for ECG data compression. In CS, an ECG signal is projected onto a small set of random vectors. Recovering the original signal from such compressed measurements remains a challenging…

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Current spatiotemporal deep learning approaches to Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) build artefact-removal models customised to a particular k-space subsampling pattern which is used for fast (compressed) acquisition. This may not be…

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Inverse problems lie at the heart of modern imaging science, with broad applications in areas such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and microscopy. Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in solving imaging inverse problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an imaging modality exploiting the nonlinear magnetization behavior of (super-)paramagnetic nanoparticles to obtain a space- and often also time-dependent concentration of a tracer consisting of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Mads Thorstein Roar Henriksen , Peter Maass

The plug-and-play (PnP) method uses a deep denoiser within a proximal algorithm for model-based image reconstruction (IR). Unlike end-to-end IR, PnP allows the same pretrained denoiser to be used across different imaging tasks, without the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Arghya Sinha , Trishit Mukherjee , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Plug-and-play denoisers can be used to perform generic image restoration tasks independent of the degradation type. These methods build on the fact that the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) optimization can be solved using smaller sub-problems,…

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