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This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Yuemeng Feng , Arman Rahmim , Hamid Sabet

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

In "extreme" computational imaging that collects extremely undersampled or noisy measurements, obtaining an accurate image within a reasonable computing time is challenging. Incorporating image mapping convolutional neural networks (CNN)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-31 Il Yong Chun , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used for image denoising via automatically mining accurate structure information. However, most of existing CNNs depend on enlarging depth of designed networks to obtain better denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Wangmeng Zuo , Bob Zhang , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

The goal of this paper is to present a non-iterative and more importantly an extremely fast algorithm to reconstruct images from compressively sensed (CS) random measurements. To this end, we propose a novel convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Kuldeep Kulkarni , Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga , Ronan Kerviche , Amit Ashok

Objective: There exist several X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning strategies to reduce a radiation dose, such as (1) sparse-view CT, (2) low-dose CT, and (3) region-of-interest (ROI) CT (called interior tomography). To further reduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Yoseob Han , Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

In this paper, we introduced a novel deep learning-based reconstruction technique for low-dose CT imaging using 3 dimensional convolutions to include the sagittal information unlike the existing 2 dimensional networks which exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Doga Gunduzalp , Batuhan Cengiz , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Isa Yildirim

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have shown fascinating performance in the field of image denoising. However, deeper network architectures are often accompanied with large numbers of model parameters, leading to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Wencong Wu , Shicheng Liao , Guannan Lv , Peng Liang , Yungang Zhang

Past few years have witnessed exponential growth of interest in deep learning methodologies with rapidly improving accuracies and reduced computational complexity. In particular, architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Apoorva Sikka , Abhinav Dhall , Deepti Bathula

We propose a network for Congested Scene Recognition called CSRNet to provide a data-driven and deep learning method that can understand highly congested scenes and perform accurate count estimation as well as present high-quality density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yuhong Li , Xiaofan Zhang , Deming Chen

The use of deep learning has successfully solved several problems in the field of medical imaging. Deep learning has been applied to the CT denoising problem successfully. However, the use of deep learning requires large amounts of data to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Mayank Patwari , Ralf Gutjahr , Rainer Raupach , Andreas Maier

Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) is a popular network for recognizing texts in images. Advances like the variant of CRNN, such as Dense Convolutional Network with Connectionist Temporal Classification, has reduced the running…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Zhao Zhang , Zemin Tang , Yang Wang , Haijun Zhang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

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, dense connections have attracted substantial attention in computer vision because they facilitate gradient flow and implicit deep supervision during training. Particularly, DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jose Dolz , Karthik Gopinath , Jing Yuan , Herve Lombaert , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

A deep learning approach to blind denoising of images without complete knowledge of the noise statistics is considered. We propose DN-ResNet, which is a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) consisting of several residual blocks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Haoyu Ren , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

This paper applies the recent fast iterative neural network framework, Momentum-Net, using appropriate models to low-dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction. At each layer of the proposed Momentum-Net, the model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

Due to the wide applications of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in medical imaging activities, radiation exposure has become a major concern for public health. Sparse-view CT is a promising approach to reduce the radiation dose by…

This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Johannes Thalhammer , Manuel Schultheiss , Tina Dorosti , Tobias Lasser , Franz Pfeiffer , Daniela Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff