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Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is an emerging powerful tool for biomedical research. There are two factors that influence FMT reconstruction most effectively. The first one is the regularization techniques. Traditional methods such…

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Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Low-dose CT image reconstruction has been a popular research topic in recent years. A typical reconstruction method based on post-log measurements is called penalized weighted-least squares (PWLS). Due to the underlying limitations of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Siqi Ye , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In clinical practice, multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with different contrasts is usually acquired in a single study to assess different properties of the same region of interest in the human body. The whole acquisition process…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Kai Xuan , Lei Xiang , Xiaoqian Huang , Lichi Zhang , Shu Liao , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction from X-ray projections acquired within a limited angle range is challenging, especially when the angle range is extremely small. Both analytical and iterative models need more projections for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Ce Wang , Haimiao Zhang , Qian Li , Kun Shang , Yuanyuan Lyu , Bin Dong , S. Kevin Zhou

This paper proposes a randomized optimization framework for constrained signal reconstruction, where the word "constrained" implies that data-fidelity is imposed as a hard constraint instead of adding a data-fidelity term to an objective…

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Quantizing images into discrete representations has been a fundamental problem in unified generative modeling. Predominant approaches learn the discrete representation either in a deterministic manner by selecting the best-matching token or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiahui Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Christian Theobalt , Shijian Lu

Cone Beam Computed Tomography(CBCT) is a now known method to conduct CT imaging. Especially, The Low Dose CT imaging is one of possible options to protect organs of patients when conducting CT imaging. Therefore Low Dose CT imaging can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Wooram Kang , Mayank Patwari

Radiomics is an active area of research in medical image analysis, the low reproducibility of radiomics has limited its applicability to clinical practice. This issue is especially prominent when radiomic features are calculated from noisy…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-16 Junhua Chen , Chong Zhang , Alberto Traverso , Ivan Zhovannik , Andre Dekker , Leonard Wee , Inigo Bermejo

Low-dose emission tomography (ET) plays a crucial role in medical imaging, enabling the acquisition of functional information for various biological processes while minimizing the patient dose. However, the inherent randomness in the photon…

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

Attenuation correction (AC) is necessary for accurate activity quantification in positron emission tomography (PET). Conventional reconstruction methods typically rely on attenuation maps derived from a co-registered computed tomography…

Signal models based on sparse representations have received considerable attention in recent years. On the other hand, deep models consisting of a cascade of functional layers, commonly known as deep neural networks, have been highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Xikai Yang , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

To develop an efficient motion-compensated reconstruction technique for free-breathing cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that allows high-quality images to be reconstructed from multiple undersampled single-shot acquisitions. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Aurelien Bustin , Anne Menini , Martin A. Janich , Darius Burschka , Jacques Felblinger , Anja C. S. Brau , Freddy Odille

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is a promising technology that has shown a number of clinical advantages over conventional X-ray CT, such as improved material identification, artifact suppression, etc. For proton therapy treatment…

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising algorithms aim to enable reduced patient dose in routine CT acquisitions while maintaining high image quality. Recently, deep learning~(DL)-based methods were introduced, outperforming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Felix Denzinger , Mingxuan Gu , Mayank Patwari , Stefan Ploner , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) while minimizing radiation exposure, a range of methods have been designed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) from corresponding low-dose PET (LPET) images. However, most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yuchen Fei , Yanmei Luo , Yan Wang , Jiaqi Cui , Yuanyuan Xu , Jiliu Zhou , Dinggang Shen

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

We consider reconstructing multi-channel images from measurements performed by photon-counting and energy-discriminating detectors in the setting of multi-spectral X-ray computed tomography (CT). Our aim is to exploit the strong structural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Lukas Kiefer , Stefania Petra , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann