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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…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkable performance in positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction. In particular, CNN-based direct PET image reconstruction, which directly generates the…
Sparse-view CT reconstruction is important in a wide range of applications due to limitations on cost, acquisition time, or dosage. However, traditional direct reconstruction methods such as filtered back-projection (FBP) lead to…
Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…
Computed tomography is widely used to examine internal structures in a non-destructive manner. To obtain high-quality reconstructions, one typically has to acquire a densely sampled trajectory to avoid angular undersampling. However, many…
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…
Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…
Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…
In this paper, we propose a new GPU implementation of the Katsevich algorithm for helical CT reconstruction. Our implementation divides the sinograms and reconstructs the CT images pitch by pitch. By utilizing the periodic properties of the…
Utilizing a low-dose CT approach significantly reduces the radiation exposure for patients, yet it introduces challenges, such as increased noise and artifacts in the resultant images, which can hinder accurate medical diagnostics.…
Assume you encounter an inverse problem that shall be solved for a large number of data, but no ground-truth data is available. To emulate this encounter, in this study, we assume it is unknown how to solve the imaging problem of Computed…
The compressed sensing (CS) theory has been successfully applied to image compression in the past few years as most image signals are sparse in a certain domain. Several CS reconstruction models have been recently proposed and obtained…
The radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) examinations is harmful for patients but can be significantly reduced by intuitively decreasing the number of projection views. Reducing projection views usually leads to severe aliasing…
Sparse-view CT reconstruction, aimed at reducing X-ray radiation risks, frequently suffers from image quality degradation, manifested as noise and artifacts. Existing post-processing and dual-domain techniques, although effective in…
Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…
The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…
In the practical applications of computed tomography imaging, the projection data may be acquired within a limited-angle range and corrupted by noises due to the limitation of scanning conditions. The noisy incomplete projection data…
Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in scientific imaging systems such as synchrotron and laboratory-based nano-CT, but acquiring full-view sinograms requires high radiation dose and long scan times. Sparse-view CT reduces this burden…
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…
The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…