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A dramatic progress in the field of computer vision has been made in recent years by applying deep learning techniques. State-of-the-art performance in image recognition is thereby reached with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-07 Tim Lukas Holch , Idan Shilon , Matthias Büchele , Tobias Fischer , Stefan Funk , Nils Groeger , David Jankowsky , Thomas Lohse , Ullrich Schwanke , Philipp Wagner

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is how to minimize patient radiation exposure without compromising image quality and diagnostic performance. The use of deep convolutional (Conv) neural networks for noise reduction in Low-Dose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Chenyu You , Linfeng Yang , Yi Zhang , Ge Wang

In this paper, we propose a method for image-set classification based on convex cone models, focusing on the effectiveness of convolutional neural network (CNN) features as inputs. CNN features have non-negative values when using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Naoya Sogi , Taku Nakayama , Kazuhiro Fukui

Automatic pancreas segmentation in radiology images, eg., computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is frequently required by computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and quantitative assessment. Yet pancreas is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

Since the beginning of this decade, CNN has been a very successful tool in the field of Computer Vision tasks.The invention of CNN was inspired from neuroscience and it shares a lot of anatomical similarities with our visual system.Inspired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Kaushik Das , Qianni Zhang

Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in medical image analysis, but their performance degrade when the magnification of testing images differ from the training images. The inability of CNNs to generalize across magnification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Pranav Jeevan , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Amit Sethi

In this paper, we present a novel method for tomographic image reconstruction in SPECT imaging with a low number of projections. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are employed in the new reconstruction method. Projection data from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Charalambos Chrysostomou , Loizos Koutsantonis , Christos Lemesios , Costas N. Papanicolas

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

Medical image analysis is a hot research topic because of its usefulness in different clinical applications, such as early disease diagnosis and treatment. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the de-facto standard in medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Smriti Regmi , Aliza Subedi , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most popular models of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)s in Computer Vision (CV). A variety of CNN-based structures were developed by researchers to solve problems like image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bowen Qiu , Daniela Raicu , Jacob Furst , Roselyne Tchoua

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

There have been many discriminative learning methods using convolutional neural networks (CNN) for several image restoration problems, which learn the mapping function from a degraded input to the clean output. In this letter, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Byeongyong Ahn , Nam Ik Cho

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a very powerful data dependent hierarchical feature extraction method. It is widely used in several computer vision problems. The CNNs learn the important visual features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jayendra Kantipudi , Shiv Ram Dubey , Soumendu Chakraborty

X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstructs cross-sectional images from projection data. However, ionizing X-ray radiation associated with CT scanning might induce cancer and genetic damage. Therefore, the reduction of radiation dose has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Huidong Xie , Hongming Shan , Wenxiang Cong , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Ge Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved superior performance on object image retrieval, while Bag-of-Words (BoW) models with handcrafted local features still dominate the retrieval of overlapping images in 3D reconstruction. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Tianwei Shen , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Runze Zhang , Siyu Zhu , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful computer vision systems to solve object recognition. Furthermore, CNNs have major applications in understanding the nature of visual representations in the human brain. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Amr Farahat , Felix Effenberger , Martin Vinck

This work presents an unsupervised learning based approach to the ubiquitous computer vision problem of image matching. We start from the insight that the problem of frame-interpolation implicitly solves for inter-frame correspondences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Gucan Long , Laurent Kneip , Jose M. Alvarez , Hongdong Li

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler