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Due to the fast inference and good performance, discriminative learning methods have been widely studied in image denoising. However, these methods mostly learn a specific model for each noise level, and require multiple models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Currently, image-denoising methods based on deep learning cannot adequately reconcile contextual semantic information and spatial details. To take these information optimizations into consideration, in this paper, we propose a Context-Space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuqi Jiang , Chune Zhang , Jiao Liu

Computed Tomography (CT) is a vital diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet the health risks associated with ionizing radiation cannot be overlooked. Low-dose CT (LDCT) helps mitigate radiation exposure but simultaneously leads to reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guoliang Gong , Man Yu

In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the acoustic pressure waves produced by optical excitation are measured by an array of detectors and used to reconstruct an image. Sparse spatial sampling and limited-view detection are two common…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Steven Guan , Ko-Tsung Hsu , Matthias Eyassu , Parag V. Chitnis

We propose a new method, Patch-CNN, for diffusion tensor (DT) estimation from only six-direction diffusion weighted images (DWI). Deep learning-based methods have been recently proposed for dMRI parameter estimation, using either voxel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tobias Goodwin-Allcock , Ting Gong , Robert Gray , Parashkev Nachev , Hui Zhang

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lower potential risks linked to radiation exposure while relying on advanced denoising algorithms to maintain diagnostic quality in reconstructed images. The reigning paradigm in LDCT denoising is based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Şaban Öztürk , Oğuz Can Duran , Tolga Çukur

3D convolution is powerful for video classification but often computationally expensive, recent studies mainly focus on decomposing it on spatial-temporal and/or channel dimensions. Unfortunately, most approaches fail to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kunchang Li , Xianhang Li , Yali Wang , Jun Wang , Yu Qiao

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

Classical approaches for estimating optical flow have achieved rapid progress in the last decade. However, most of them are too slow to be applied in real-time video analysis. Due to the great success of deep learning, recent work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Image deblurring aims to recover the latent sharp image from its blurry counterpart and has a wide range of applications in computer vision. The Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed well in this domain for many years, and until…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Lingyan Ruan , Mojtaba Bemana , Hans-peter Seidel , Karol Myszkowski , Bin Chen

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is routinely collected during image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide updated patient anatomy information for cancer treatments. However, CBCT images often suffer from streaking artifacts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiarui Zhu , Werxing Chen , Hongfei Sun , Shaohua Zhi , Jing Qin , Jing Cai , Ge Ren

With the increasing reliance of self-driving and similar robotic systems on robust 3D vision, the processing of LiDAR scans with deep convolutional neural networks has become a trend in academia and industry alike. Prior attempts on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ran Cheng , Christopher Agia , Yuan Ren , Xinhai Li , Liu Bingbing

In this paper, we introduce Fast&Focused-Net, a novel deep neural network architecture tailored for efficiently encoding small objects into fixed-length feature vectors. Contrary to conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Ali Tofik , Roy Partha Pratim

Reconstructing 3D cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images from a limited set of projections is an important inverse problem in many imaging applications from medicine to inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The performance of traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Xiaojian Xu , Marc Klasky , Michael T. McCann , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Photon counting spectral CT (PCCT) can produce reconstructed attenuation maps in different energy channels, reflecting energy properties of the scanned object. Due to the limited photon numbers and the non-ideal detector response of each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Chaoyang Zhang , Shaojie Chang , Ti Bai , Xi Chen

Pulmonary nodule detection, false positive reduction and segmentation represent three of the most common tasks in the computeraided analysis of chest CT images. Methods have been proposed for eachtask with deep learning based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Hao Tang , Chupeng Zhang , Xiaohui Xie

Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

Variations of deep neural networks such as convolutional neural network (CNN) have been successfully applied to image denoising. The goal is to automatically learn a mapping from a noisy image to a clean image given training data consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Tianyang Wang , Mingxuan Sun , Kaoning Hu