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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important clinical imaging tool but inevitably introduces radiation hazards to patients and healthcare providers. Reducing the tracer injection dose and eliminating the CT acquisition for attenuation…

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In this paper, we review physics- and data-driven reconstruction techniques for simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) / magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, which have significant advantages for clinical imaging of cancer,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Abhejit Rajagopal , Andrew P. Leynes , Nicholas Dwork , Jessica E. Scholey , Thomas A. Hope , Peder E. Z. Larson

The third autoPET challenge introduced a new data-centric task this year, shifting the focus from model development to improving metastatic lesion segmentation on PET/CT images through data quality and handling strategies. In response, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Balint Kovacs , Shuhan Xiao , Maximilian Rokuss , Constantin Ulrich , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

Accurate three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of cardiac chamber motion from time-resolved medical imaging modalities is of growing interest in both the clinical and biomechanical fields. Despite recent advancement, the cardiac motion…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Francesco Capuano , Yue-Hin Loke , Ibrahim Yildiran , Laura Olivieri , Elias Balaras

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) are increasingly used in multimodal analysis of neurodegenerative disorders. While MRI is broadly utilized in clinical settings, PET is less accessible. Many studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Minhui Yu , Mengqi Wu , Ling Yue , Andrea Bozoki , Mingxia Liu

Over the past years, pseudo-healthy reconstruction for unsupervised anomaly detection has gained in popularity. This approach has the great advantage of not requiring tedious pixel-wise data annotation and offers possibility to generalize…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality widely used in neuroscience studies. To obtain meaningful quantitative results from PET images, attenuation correction is necessary during image reconstruction. For PET/MR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Kuang Gong , Jaewon Yang , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Youngho Seo , Quanzheng Li

In Europe the 20% of the CT scans cover the thoracic region. The acquired images contain information about the cardiovascular system that often remains latent due to the lack of contrast in the cardiac area. On the other hand, the contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Gianmarco Santini , Lorena M. Zumbo , Nicola Martini , Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Andrea Ripoli , Francesco Avogliero , Dante Chiappino , Daniele Della Latta

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging requires accurate attenuation correction (AC) to account for photon loss due to tissue density variations. In PET/MR systems, computed tomography (CT), which offers a straightforward estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Weijie Chen , James Wang , Alan McMillan

This work proposes a new method for real-time dense 3d reconstruction for common 360{\deg} action cams, which can be mounted on small scouting UAVs during USAR missions. The proposed method extends a feature based Visual monocular SLAM…

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Purpose: To investigate deep learning electrical properties tomography (EPT) for application on different simulated and in-vivo datasets including pathologies for obtaining quantitative brain conductivity maps. Methods: 3D patch-based…

Patient movement in emission tomography deteriorates reconstruction quality because of motion blur. Gating the data improves the situation somewhat: each gate contains a movement phase which is approximately stationary. A standard method is…

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Transcranial photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging neuroimaging modality, but skull-induced aberrations can result in severe image artifacts if not compensated for during image reconstruction. The development of advanced…

Positron range (PR) blurring degrades positron emission tomography (PET) image resolution, particularly for high-energy emitters like gallium-68 (68 Ga). We introduce Dual-Input Dynamic Convolution (DDConv), a novel computationally…

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a novel computational imaging technology. In order to improve the quality and spatial resolution of the reconstructed images, the G-CNN and HG-CNN algorithms are proposed based on a one-dimensional…

In cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, a 3D high-resolution segmentation of the heart is essential for detailed description of its anatomical structures. However, due to the limit of acquisition duration and respiratory/cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Shuo Wang , Chen Qin , Nicolo Savioli , Chen Chen , Declan O'Regan , Stuart Cook , Yike Guo , Daniel Rueckert , Wenjia Bai

Three-dimensional ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables comprehensive visualization of the vasculature, thereby improving diagnostic reliability. Nevertheless, its clinical translation remains challenging, as the exponential…

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

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Focused transmits are the most commonly used transmit strategy for echocardiograms, but suffer from relatively low frame rates, and in 3D, even lower volume rates. Fast imaging based on unfocused transmits has disadvantages such as motion…

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