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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular condition with high morbidity and mortality. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) has been considered as an optimal imagining system for the diagnosis and treatment of CAD.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Xueshen Li , Shengting Cao , Hongshan Liu , Xinwen Yao , Brigitta C. Brott , Silvio H. Litovsky , Xiaoyu Song , Yuye Ling , Yu Gan

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,…

Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a novel imaging modality developed for patients receiving proton radiation therapy. The purpose of this work was to investigate hull-detection algorithms used for preconditioning of the large and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Blake Schultze , Micah Witt , Yair Censor , Reinhard Schulte , Keith Evan Schubert

Parallel MRI is a fast imaging technique that enables the acquisition of highly resolved images in space. It relies on $k$-space undersampling and multiple receiver coils with complementary sensitivity profiles in order to reconstruct a…

Introduction: Altered neurometabolism is an important pathological mechanism in many neurological diseases and brain cancer, which can be mapped non-invasively by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI). Advanced MRSI using…

Purpose: Iterative Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) which resemble unrolled learned iterative schemes have shown to consistently deliver state-of-the-art results for image reconstruction problems across different imaging modalities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Andreas Kofler , Markus Haltmeier , Tobias Schaeffter , Christoph Kolbitsch

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of head Computed Tomography (CT) images elucidates the intricate spatial relationships of tissue structures, thereby assisting in accurate diagnosis. Nonetheless, securing an optimal head CT scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Bowen Zheng , Chenxi Huang , Yuemei Luo

Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Azadeh Sharafi , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Maria Angela Narduzzo

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

It is well known that the registration process is a key step for super-resolution reconstruction. In this work, we propose to use a piezoelectric system that is easily adaptable on all microscopes and telescopes for controlling accurately…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-04 Pierre Chainais , Aymeric Leray

Significance: Dynamic photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a valuable technique for monitoring physiological processes. However, current dynamic PACT techniques are often limited to 2D spatial imaging. While volumetric PACT imagers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Refik M. Cam , Chao Wang , Weylan Thompson , Sergey A. Ermilov , Mark A. Anastasio , Umberto Villa

Masked Autoregressive (MAR) models promise better efficiency in visual generation than autoregressive (AR) models for the ability of parallel generation, yet their acceleration potential remains constrained by the modeling complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Feihong Yan , Peiru Wang , Yao Zhu , Kaiyu Pang , Qingyan Wei , Huiqi Li , Linfeng Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel method for tomographic image reconstruction in SPECT imaging with a low number of projections. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are employed in the new reconstruction method. Projection data from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Charalambos Chrysostomou , Loizos Koutsantonis , Christos Lemesios , Costas N. Papanicolas

Computed tomography (CT) provides high spatial resolution visualization of 3D structures for scientific and clinical applications. Traditional analytical/iterative CT reconstruction algorithms require hundreds of angular data samplings, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Di Xu , Yang Yang , Hengjie Liu , Qihui Lyu , Martina Descovich , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

Objective: Dynamic cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging is highly desired in image-guided radiation therapy to provide volumetric images with high spatial and temporal resolutions to enable applications including tumor motion tracking/prediction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 You Zhang , Tielige Mengke

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) enables atomic-resolution imaging and atom manipulation, but its utility is often limited by tip degradation and slow serial data acquisition. Fabrication adds another layer of complexity since the tip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nikola L. Kolev , Tommaso Rodani , Neil J. Curson , Taylor J. Z. Stock , Alberto Cazzaniga

Neural networks became the standard technique for image classification throughout the last years. They are extracting image features from a large number of images in a training phase. In a following test phase, the network is applied to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Viktoria Heimann , Andreas Spruck , André Kaup

Computed tomography (CT) has been developed as a non-destructive technique for observing minute internal images of samples. It has been difficult to obtain photo-realistic (clean or clear) CT images due to various unwanted artifacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Kyungtaek Jun

Clinically useful proton Computed Tomography images will rely on algorithms to find the three-dimensional proton stopping power distribution that optimally fits the measured proton data. We present a least squares iterative method with many…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Don F. DeJongh , Ethan A. DeJongh