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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality that enables the visualization of biochemical and physiological processes across various tissues. Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods have demonstrated significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

This article presents a physics-informed deep learning method for the quantitative estimation of the spatial coordinates of gamma interactions within a monolithic scintillator, with a focus on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. A…

Limited view tomographic reconstruction aims to reconstruct a tomographic image from a limited number of sinogram or projection views arising from sparse view or limited angle acquisitions that reduce radiation dose or shorten scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Bo Zhou , S. Kevin Zhou , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Large high-quality medical image datasets are difficult to acquire but necessary for many deep learning applications. For positron emission tomography (PET), reconstructed image quality is limited by inherent Poisson noise. We propose a…

This paper proposes a sinogram consistency learning method to deal with beam-hardening related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in various medical imaging tasks, such as denoising, registration, and segmentation, by representing images as continuous functions, allowing complex details to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Younès Moussaoui , Diana Mateus , Nasrin Taheri , Saïd Moussaoui , Thomas Carlier , Simon Stute

Image restoration, including image denoising, super resolution, inpainting, and so on, is a well-studied problem in computer vision and image processing, as well as a test bed for low-level image modeling algorithms. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

A CT image can be well reconstructed when the sampling rate of the sinogram satisfies the Nyquist criteria and the sampled signal is noise-free. However, in practice, the sinogram is usually contaminated by noise, which degrades the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Recently, a number of approaches to low-dose computed tomography (CT) have been developed and deployed in commercialized CT scanners. Tube current reduction is perhaps the most actively explored technology with advanced image reconstruction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Hoyeon Lee , Jongha Lee , Hyeongseok Kim , Byungchul Cho , Seungryong Cho

Limited data and low dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms which lead to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years sinogram denoising has become an essential pre-processing step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Pierre Vandergheynst , Ulf Skoglund

To reconstruct a radioactive tracer distribution with positron emission tomography (PET), the background attenuation correction is needed to eliminate image artifacts. Recent research shows that time-of-flight (TOF) PET data determine the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Qingsong Yang , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

In this paper we consider the problem of image reconstruction in optoacoustic tomography. In particular, we devise a deep neural architecture that can explicitly take into account the band-frequency information contained in the sinogram.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Martin G. Gonzalez , Matias Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega

A unified self-supervised and supervised deep learning framework for PET image reconstruction is presented, including deep-learned filtered backprojection (DL-FBP) for sinograms, deep-learned backproject then filter (DL-BPF) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Andrew J. Reader

In this paper, we propose a sinogram inpainting network (SIN) to solve limited-angle CT reconstruction problem, which is a very challenging ill-posed issue and of great interest for several clinical applications. A common approach to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Ji Zhao , Zhiqiang Chen , Li Zhang , Xin Jin

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Image inpainting aims to fill the missing hole of the input. It is hard to solve this task efficiently when facing high-resolution images due to two reasons: (1) Large reception field needs to be handled for high-resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Weihuang Liu , Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Menghan Xia , Yong Zhang , Jue Wang

The quality of the reconstructed photoacoustic image largely depends on the amount of photoacoustic (PA) boundary data available, which in turn is proportional to the number of detectors employed. In case of limited data (owing to less…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-20 Navchetan Awasthi , Rohit Pardasani , Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Manojit Pramanik , Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Low performance pixels (LPP) in Computed Tomography (CT) detectors would lead to ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them clinically unusable. In recent years, several solutions have been proposed to correct LPP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hongxu Yang , Levente Lippenszky , Edina Timko , Lehel Ferenczi , Gopal Avinash