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The core role of medical images in disease diagnosis makes their quality directly affect the accuracy of clinical judgment. However, due to factors such as low-dose scanning, equipment limitations and imaging artifacts, medical images are…

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Model-based learned iterative reconstruction methods have recently been shown to outperform classical reconstruction algorithms. Applicability of these methods to large scale inverse problems is however limited by the available memory for…

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Low-dose CT (LDCT) denoising remains an important yet challenging problem in medical imaging. Although recent learning-based methods have shown promising performance, those optimized using classical pixel-level objectives often produce…

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In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

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In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an active research area. Previous studies…

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Tuning the regularization hyperparameter $\alpha$ in inverse problems has been a longstanding problem. This is particularly true in the case of fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging, where an isotropic high-resolution volume is…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction has become an ill-posed inverse problem due to low-count projection data, and a robust algorithm is urgently required to improve imaging quality. Recently, the deep image prior (DIP) has…

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To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

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The rapid growth of model scale has necessitated substantial computational resources for fine-tuning. Existing approach such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has sought to address the problem of handling the large updated parameters in full…

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Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) detectors exhibiting multiple coincidence time resolution (CTR) components, such as those induced by the mixing of Cherenkov and scintillation photons, have attracted increasing…

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