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During the process of computed tomography (CT), metallic implants often cause disruptive artifacts in the reconstructed images, impeding accurate diagnosis. Several supervised deep learning-based approaches have been proposed for reducing…

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Deep learning-based analysis of high-frequency, high-resolution micro-ultrasound data shows great promise for prostate cancer detection. Previous approaches to analysis of ultrasound data largely follow a supervised learning paradigm.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Paul F. R. Wilson , Mahdi Gilany , Amoon Jamzad , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Brian Wodlinger , Purang Abolmaesumi , Parvin Mousavi

This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Ruyi Zha , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Whole-body PET imaging is often hindered by respiratory motion during acquisition, causing significant degradation in the quality of reconstructed activity images. An additional challenge in PET/CT imaging arises from the respiratory phase…

In CT angiography, the accurate segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) is difficult due to large anatomical variability, low-contrast vessel boundaries, and the close proximity of organs whose intensities resemble vascular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Osamah Sufyan , Martin Brückmann , Ralph Wickenhöfer , Babette Dellen , Uwe Jaekel

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique offering high-resolution 3D images and valuable insights into human tissue conditions. Even at present, the refinement of denoising methods for MRI remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Shiao Li

An alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) framework is developed for nonsmooth biconvex optimization for inverse problems in imaging. In particular, the simultaneous estimation of activity and attenuation (SAA) problem in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Zhimei Ren , Emil Y. Sidky , Rina Foygel Barber , Chien-Min Kao , Xiaochuan Pan

Robustness of deep learning methods for limited angle tomography is challenged by two major factors: a) due to insufficient training data the network may not generalize well to unseen data; b) deep learning methods are sensitive to noise.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Guenter Lauritsch , Michael Manhart , Xiaolin Huang , Andreas Maier

We propose an atlas-based method to segment the intracochlear anatomy (ICA) in the post-implantation CT (Post-CT) images of cochlear implant (CI) recipients that preserves the point-to-point correspondence between the meshes in the atlas…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jianing Wang , Dingjie Su , Yubo Fan , Srijata Chakravorti , Jack H. Noble , Benoit M. Dawant

Detecting anomalies for multivariate time-series without manual supervision continues a challenging problem due to the increased scale of dimensions and complexity of today's IT monitoring systems. Recent progress of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Qinfeng Xiao , Shikuan Shao , Jing Wang

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging is critical in aiding doctors in their diagnoses and image-guided treatments. However, acquiring HR images can be time-consuming and costly. Consequently, deep learning-based super-resolution…

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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…

We present a physics-informed deep learning framework to address common limitations in Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), such as diffraction limited resolution, noise, and undersampling due to low laser power conditions. The…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

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Accelerated MRI reconstructs images of clinical anatomies from sparsely sampled signal data to reduce patient scan times. While recent works have leveraged deep learning to accomplish this task, such approaches have often only been explored…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Michael S. Yao , Michael S. Hansen

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT) shows great potentials in various preclinical and clinical applications. A great number of measurements are the premise that obtains a high-quality image, which implies a low imaging rate or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hengrong Lan , Juze Zhang , Changchun Yang , Fei Gao

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Purpose: The fusion of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding targeted prostate biopsy has significantly improved the biopsy yield of aggressive cancers. A key component of MR-TRUS fusion is image…

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99m-Tc Ethyl-Cysteinate-Dimer SPECT and MR imaging play a significant role in diagnosing anosmia. In this study, two-tissue class and three-tissue class attenuation maps (2C-MR and 3CMR) obtained from MR images were compared with CT-based…