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A major remaining challenge for magnetic resonance-based attenuation correction methods (MRAC) is their susceptibility to sources of MRI artifacts (e.g. implants, motion) and uncertainties due to the limitations of MRI contrast (e.g.…

In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the acoustic pressure waves produced by optical excitation are measured by an array of detectors and used to reconstruct an image. Sparse spatial sampling and limited-view detection are two common…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Steven Guan , Ko-Tsung Hsu , Matthias Eyassu , Parag V. Chitnis

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used in many applications that need material decomposition. Image-domain methods directly decompose material images from high- and low-energy attenuation images, and thus, are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

One weakness of machine-learning algorithms is the need to train the models for a new task. This presents a specific challenge for biometric recognition due to the dynamic nature of databases and, in some instances, the reliance on subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Josef Bigun

The early detection of Alzheimer's Disease is imperative to ensure early treatment and improve patient outcomes. There has consequently been extenstive research into detecting AD and its intermediate phase, mild cognitive impairment (MCI).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Jamie Vo , Naeha Sharif , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan

Domain Adaptation (DA) methods are widely used in medical image segmentation tasks to tackle the problem of differently distributed train (source) and test (target) data. We consider the supervised DA task with a limited number of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ivan Zakazov , Boris Shirokikh , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Mikhail Belyaev

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising approach to realize in vivo transcranial cerebral vascular imaging. However, the strong attenuation and distortion of the photoacoustic wave caused by the thick porous skull greatly affect the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Ya Gao , Wenyi Xu , Yiming Chen , Weiya Xie , Qian Cheng

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is of great significance for clinical practice due to its huge potential to provide material-specific information. However, DECT scanners are usually more expensive than standard single-energy CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Tianling Lyu , Zhan Wu , Yikun Zhang , Yang Chen , Lei Xing , Wei Zhao

In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Deep learning-based methods deliver state-of-the-art performance for solving inverse problems that arise in computational imaging. These methods can be broadly divided into two groups: (1) learn a network to map measurements to the signal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Nebiyou Yismaw , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , M. Salman Asif

With the increasing popularity of PET-MR scanners in clinical applications, synthesis of CT images from MR has been an important research topic. Accurate PET image reconstruction requires attenuation correction, which is based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Snehashis Roy , John A. Butman , Dzung L. Pham

Deep neural networks face several challenges in hyperspectral image classification, including insufficient utilization of joint spatial-spectral information, gradient vanishing with increasing depth, and overfitting. To enhance feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Guandong Li , Mengxia Ye

Positron emission tomography (PET) enables quantification of dynamic physiological processes through time-resolved imaging. In Rb-82 myocardial perfusion PET, kinetic compartment modeling is used to estimate physiological parameters and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Myungheon Chin , Sarah J Zou , Garry Chinn , Craig S. Levin

PURPOSE: To apply deep CNN to the segmentation task in myocardial arterial spin labeled (ASL) perfusion imaging and to develop methods that measure uncertainty and that adapt the CNN model to a specific false positive vs. false negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hung P. Do , Yi Guo , Andrew J. Yoon , Krishna S. Nayak

Quantitative PET attenuation correction (AC) for combined cardiac PET/MR is a challenging problem. We propose and evaluate an AC approach that uses coincidences from a relatively weak and physically fixed sparse external source, in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Mi-Ae Park , Vlad G. Zaha , Ramsey D. Badawi , Spencer L. Bowen

Deep learning has potential to automate screening, monitoring and grading of disease in medical images. Pretraining with contrastive learning enables models to extract robust and generalisable features from natural image datasets,…

We propose a magnetic resonance (MR)-based method for estimation of continuous linear attenuation coefficients (LAC) in positron emission tomography (PET) using a physical compartmental model and ultrashort echo time (UTE)/multi-echo Dixon…

Introduction: Quantification of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI has the potential to provide valuable clinical information, but robust pharmacokinetic modeling remains a challenge for clinical adoption. Methods: A 7-layer neural network…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Ouri Cohen , Soudabeh Kargar , Sungmin Woo , Alberto Vargas , Ricardo Otazo

Denoising low-dose computed tomography (CT) images is a critical task in medical image computing. Supervised deep learning-based approaches have made significant advancements in this area in recent years. However, these methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Xuan Liu , Yaoqin Xie , Jun Cheng , Songhui Diao , Shan Tan , Xiaokun Liang