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Spatial filtering is a commonly deployed technique to improve the quality of laser beams by optically filtering the noise. In the "textbook" example, the noise is usually assumed to be high frequency and the laser beam, Gaussian. In this…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jonathan Pinnell , Asher Klug , Andrew Forbes

Multi-spectral computed tomography is an emerging technology for the non-destructive identification of object materials and the study of their physical properties. Applications of this technology can be found in various scientific and…

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Currently, the engineering of miniature spectrometers mainly faces three problems: the mismatch between the number of filters at the front end of the detector and the spectral reconstruction accuracy; the lack of a stable spectral…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-09-19 Jiakun Zhang , Liu Zhang , Ying Song , Yan Zheng

Multi-energy computed tomography (CT) with photon counting detectors (PCDs) enables spectral imaging as PCDs can assign the incoming photons to specific energy channels. However, PCDs with many spectral channels drastically increase the…

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This work considers synergistic multi-spectral CT reconstruction where information from all available energy channels is combined to improve the reconstruction of each individual channel, we propose to fuse this available data (represented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Evelyn Cueva , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Visual object tracking is a challenging computer vision task with numerous real-world applications. Here we propose a simple but efficient Spectral Filter Tracking (SFT)method. To characterize rotational and translation invariance of…

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This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

Spectral Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (SPCCT) is a promising technology that has shown a number of advantages over conventional X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in the form of material separation, artefact removal and enhanced image…

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Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Many materials have distinct spectral profiles. This facilitates estimation of the material composition of a scene at each pixel by first acquiring its hyperspectral image, and subsequently filtering it using a bank of spectral profiles.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Optical coherence tomography is state-of-the-art in non-invasive imaging of biological structures. Spectral Domain Optical Co-herence Tomography is the popularly used variation of this technique, but its performance is limited by the…

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X-ray energy spectrum plays an essential role in computed tomography (CT) imaging and related tasks. Due to the high photon flux of clinical CT scanners, most of spectrum estimation methods are indirect and usually suffered from various…

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Recently, spectral CT has been drawing a lot of attention in a variety of clinical applications primarily due to its capability of providing quantitative information about material properties. The quantitative integrity of the reconstructed…

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular condition with high morbidity and mortality. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) has been considered as an optimal imagining system for the diagnosis and treatment of CAD.…

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Capturing images using multispectral camera arrays has gained importance in medical, agricultural and environmental processes. However, using all available spectral bands is infeasible and produces much data, while only a fraction is needed…

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The increase in non-biodegradable waste is a worldwide concern. Recycling facilities play a crucial role, but their automation is hindered by the complex characteristics of waste recycling lines like clutter or object deformation. In…

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We propose a novel spectral vision transformer architecture for efficient tokenization in limited data, with an emphasis on medical imaging. We outline convenient theoretical properties arising from the choice of basis including spatial…

Spectral imaging is an umbrella term for energy-resolved x-ray imaging in medicine. The technique makes use of the energy dependence of x-ray attenuation to either increase the contrast-to-noise ratio, or to provide quantitative image data…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Erik Fredenberg

X-ray energy spectrum plays an essential role in imaging and related tasks. Due to the high photon flux of clinical CT scanners, most of the spectrum estimation methods are indirect and are usually suffered from various limitations. The…

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