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Reconstructing images using Computed Tomography (CT) in an industrial context leads to specific challenges that differ from those encountered in other areas, such as clinical CT. Indeed, non-destructive testing with industrial CT will often…

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In this work we propose an approximate Minimum Mean-Square Error (MMSE) filter for linear dynamic systems with Gaussian Mixture noise. The proposed estimator tracks each component of the Gaussian Mixture (GM) posterior with an individual…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Leila Pishdad , Fabrice Labeau

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

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams should utilize the lowest possible radiation dose while maintaining sufficiently good image quality for accurate medical diagnosis. In this work, we propose a convolution neural network (CNN) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Rodrigo de Barros Vimieiro , Chuang Niu , Hongming Shan , Lucas Rodrigues Borges , Ge Wang , Marcelo Andrade da Costa Vieira

The acquisition of MRI images offers a trade-off in terms of acquisition time, spatial/temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Thus, for instance, increasing the time efficiency of MRI often comes at the expense of reduced SNR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-28 Sudipto Dolui , Alan Kuurstra , Iván C. Salgado Patarroyo , Oleg V. Michailovich

This paper concerns iterative reconstruction for low-dose and few-view CT by minimizing a data-fidelity term regularized with the Total Variation (TV) penalty. We propose a very fast iterative algorithm to solve this problem. The algorithm…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hiroyuki Kudo , Fukashi Yamazaki , Takuya Nemoto , Keita Takaki

Static IR drop analysis is a fundamental and critical task in the field of chip design. Nevertheless, this process can be quite time-consuming, potentially requiring several hours. Moreover, addressing IR drop violations frequently demands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kai Ma , Zhen Wang , Hongquan He , Qi Xu , Tinghuan Chen , Hao Geng

A variety of supervise learning methods are available for low-dose CT denoising in the sinogram domain. Traditional model observers are widely employed to evaluate these methods. However, the sinogram domain evaluation remains an open…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Yongyi Shi , Ge Wang , Xuanqin Mou

Low dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for reduced patient dose. This work develops image reconstruction methods with deep learning (DL) regularization for LDCT. Our methods are based on unrolling of proximal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Qiaoqiao Ding , Gaoyu Chen , Xiaoqun Zhang , Qiu Huang , Hui Jiand Hao Gao

Purpose: Many useful image quality metrics for evaluating linear image reconstruction techniques do not apply to or are difficult to interpret for non-linear image reconstruction. The vast majority of metrics employed for evaluating…

Ultra high dose rate electron beams also known as FLASH radiotherapy is becoming of importance in several preclinial cancer treatment studies. However, due to the dose rate used during the irradiation sessions, no real time dose monitoring…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Chloe Lahaye , Jean-Marc Fontbonne , Samuel Salvador

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important interferometric diagnostic technique which provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissues. However, the imaging quality of high-speed OCT is limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Liheng Bian , Jinli Suo , Feng Chen , Qionghai Dai

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Being low-level radiation exposure and less harmful to health, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been widely adopted in the early screening of lung cancer and COVID-19. LDCT images inevitably suffer from the degradation problem caused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kecheng Chen , Jiayu Sun , Jiang Shen , Jixiang Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Xuelin Pan , Dongsheng Wu , Yue Zhao , Miguel Bento , Yazhou Ren , Xiaorong Pu

With substantial public concerns on potential cancer risks and health hazards caused by the accumulated radiation exposure in medical imaging, reducing radiation dose in X-ray based medical imaging such as Computed Tomography Perfusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang

Computed Tomography (CT) is an imaging technique where information about an object are collected at different angles (called projections or scans). Then the cross-sectional image showing the internal structure of the slice is produced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Zhengchun Liu , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

In the context of large-angle cone-beam tomography (CBCT), we present a practical iterative reconstruction (IR) scheme designed for rapid convergence as required for large datasets. The robustness of the reconstruction is provided by the…

The increasingly demand for machining accuracy and product quality excites a great interest in high-resolution non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, but spatial resolution of conventional high-energy computed tomography (CT) is limited to…

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) is clinically desirable due to the reduced radiation to patients. However, the quality of LDCT images is often sub-optimal because of the inevitable strong quantum noise. Inspired by their unprecedent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang