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Collimator detection remains a challenging task in X-ray systems with unreliable or non-available information about the detectors position relative to the source. This paper presents a physically motivated image processing pipeline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Benjamin El-Zein , Dominik Eckert , Thomas Weber , Maximilian Rohleder , Ludwig Ritschl , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Infrared spectra obtained from cell or tissue specimen have commonly been observed to involve a significant degree of (resonant) Mie scattering, which often overshadows biochemically relevant spectral information by a non-linear,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Arne P. Raulf , Joshua Butke , Lukas Menzen , Claus Küpper , Frederik Großerueschkamp , Klaus Gerwert , Axel Mosig

The paper is devoted to problem of spline approximation. A new method of nodes location for curves and surfaces computer construction by means of B-splines and results of simulink-modeling is presented. The advantages of this paper is that…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Annapurna Sharma , Hakimjon Zaynidinov , Hoon Jae Lee

Imperfections in X-ray imaging systems can limit their performance, especially in High Energy Density (HED) or Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE)-relevant experiments that are typically single shot, by introducing structured, non-stationary…

Modeling the absorbed dose during X-ray imaging is essential for optimizing radiation exposure. Monte Carlo simulations (MCS) are the gold standard for precise 3D dose estimation but require significant computation time. Deep learning…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Maxime Rousselot , Jing Zhang , Didier Benoit , Chi-Hieu Pham , Julien Bert

Due to its wide field of view, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is plagued by large amounts of scatter, where attenuated photons hit the detector, and corrupt the linear models used for reconstruction. Given that one can generate a good…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Jonathan Mason , Alessandro Perelli , William Nailon , Mike Davies

Single-shot imaging with femtosecond X-ray lasers is a powerful measurement technique that can achieve both high spatial and temporal resolution. However, its accuracy has been severely limited by the difficulty of applying conventional…

The purpose of this work is to provide a fast and accurate scatter artifacts correction algorithm for cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging. The method starts with an estimation of coarse scatter profiles for a set of CBCT data in either image domain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wei Zhao , Don Vernekohl , Jun Zhu , Luyao Wang , Lei Xing

U-Net, known for its simple yet efficient architecture, is widely utilized for image processing tasks and is particularly suitable for deployment on neuromorphic chips. This paper introduces the novel concept of Spiking-UNet for image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Xiaoyan Sun

Continuous signal representations are naturally suited for inverse problems, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography, because the measurements depend on an underlying physically continuous signal. While classical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Hongze Yu , Yun Jiang , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Uncertainty quantification is vital for safety-critical Deep Learning applications like medical image segmentation. We introduce BA U-Net, an uncertainty-aware model for MRI segmentation that integrates Bayesian Neural Networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Lohith Konathala

Purpose. Given the high level of expertise required for navigation and interpretation of ultrasound images, computational simulations can facilitate the training of such skills in virtual reality. With ray-tracing based simulations,…

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After an artificial model background subtraction, the pixels have been labelled as foreground and background. Previous approaches to secondary processing the output for denoising usually use traditional methods such as the Bayesian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ningbo Zhu , Fei Yang

Fluctuations of the glacier calving front have an important influence over the ice flow of whole glacier systems. It is therefore important to precisely monitor the position of the calving front. However, the manual delineation of SAR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Andreas Hartmann , Amirabbas Davari , Thorsten Seehaus , Matthias Braun , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

A multitude of imaging and vision tasks have seen recently a major transformation by deep learning methods and in particular by the application of convolutional neural networks. These methods achieve impressive results, even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Simon Arridge , Andreas Hauptmann

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Muon scattering tomography utilises muons, typically originating from cosmic rays to image the interiors of dense objects. However, due to the low flux of cosmic ray muons at sea-level and the highly complex interactions that muons display…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Li Xin Jed Lim , Ziming Qiu

In this work we propose a new paradigm for designing efficient deep unrolling networks using operator sketching. The deep unrolling networks are currently the state-of-the-art solutions for imaging inverse problems. However, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junqi Tang , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb