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High-resolution (HR) information of fluid flows, although preferable, is usually less accessible due to limited computational or experimental resources. In many cases, fluid data are generally sparse, incomplete, and possibly noisy. How to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Han Gao , Luning Sun , Jian-Xun Wang

Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used for cancer screening, such as early detection of lung cancer. However, CT studies have varying pixel spacing due to differences in acquisition parameters. Thick slice CTs have lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Meng Li , Shiwen Shen , Wen Gao , William Hsu , Jason Cong

Neurological Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a critical imaging modality for diagnosing and studying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. However, the inherent low spatial resolution of PET images poses significant…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Quanzheng Li

The convolutional neural network model for optical flow estimation usually outputs a low-resolution(LR) optical flow field. To obtain the corresponding full image resolution,interpolation and variational approach are the most common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Liping Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Qingmin Liao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with strong expressive ability have achieved impressive performances on single image super-resolution (SISR). However, their excessive amounts of convolutions and parameters usually consume high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Chunwei Tian , Ruibin Zhuge , Zhihao Wu , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Chen Chen , Chia-Wen Lin

In recent years, much research has been conducted on image super-resolution (SR). To the best of our knowledge, however, few SR methods were concerned with compressed images. The SR of compressed images is a challenging task due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Honggang Chen , Xiaohai He , Chao Ren , Linbo Qing , Qizhi Teng

The analysis of multi-modality positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) images for computer aided diagnosis applications requires combining the sensitivity of PET to detect abnormal regions with anatomical localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Single image super resolution (SR), which refers to reconstruct a higher-resolution (HR) image from the observed low-resolution (LR) image, has received substantial attention due to its tremendous application potentials. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Yukai Shi , Keze Wang , Chongyu Chen , Li Xu , Liang Lin

The foreseen CaLIPSO Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner is expected to yield simultaneously a fine image resolution, about 1 mm$^3$, and a high contrast. In this paper we present results of simulations for the full CaLIPSO PET…

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image and video super-resolution (SR) regularly achieve new state-of-the-art performance, they also suffer from significant drawbacks. One of their limitations is their lack of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Alice Lucas , Santiago Lopez-Tapia , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Image Super Resolution (SR) finds applications in areas where images need to be closely inspected by the observer to extract enhanced information. One such focused application is an offline forensic analysis of surveillance feeds. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Ammar Ali Khan , Ansar Ahmad , Rana Hammad Raza

Super-resolution (SR) has achieved great success due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, as the depth and width of the networks increase, CNN-based SR methods have been faced with the challenge of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Parichehr Behjati , Pau Rodriguez , Armin Mehri , Isabelle Hupont , Jordi Gonzalez , Carles Fernandez Tena

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) aims to generate a high-resolution (HR) image of a given low-resolution (LR) image. The most of existing convolutional neural network (CNN) based SISR methods usually take an assumption that a LR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Rao Muhammad Umer , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

In this work we present a novel system for PET estimation using CT scans. We explore the use of fully convolutional networks (FCN) and conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) to export PET data from CT data. Our dataset includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Avi Ben-Cohen , Eyal Klang , Stephen P. Raskin , Michal Marianne Amitai , Hayit Greenspan

The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Nico Karssemeijer , Tom Heskes , Inge van Uden , Clara Sanchez , Geert Litjens , Frank-Erik de Leeuw , Bram van Ginneken , Elena Marchiori , Bram Platel

Computed Tomography (CT) is an advanced imaging technology used in many important applications. Here we present a deep-learning (DL) based CT super-resolution (SR) method that can reconstruct low-resolution (LR) sinograms into high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Zhicheng Zhang , Shaode Yu , Wenjian Qin , Xiaokun Liang , Yaoqin Xie , Guohua Cao

The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Alex M. Bronstein , Oleg V. Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

This paper presents deep unfolding neural networks to handle inverse problems in photothermal radiometry enabling super resolution (SR) imaging. Photothermal imaging is a well-known technique in active thermography for nondestructive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Samim Ahmadi , Linh Kästner , Jan Christian Hauffen , Peter Jung , Mathias Ziegler

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successfully applied to many remote sensing problems. However, deep learning techniques for multi-image super-resolution from multitemporal unregistered imagery have received little…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

The ability to synthesise Computed Tomography images - commonly known as pseudo CT, or pCT - from MRI input data is commonly assessed using an intensity-wise similarity, such as an L2-norm between the ground truth CT and the pCT. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Kerstin Kläser , Thomas Varsavsky , Pawel Markiewicz , Tom Vercauteren , David Atkinson , Kris Thielemans , Brian Hutton , M Jorge Cardoso , Sebastien Ourselin