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Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems. While computed tomography (CT) is theoretically a linear inverse problem, it poses many practical challenges. These include correlated noise, artifact…

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The motion or out-of-focus effect in digital images is the main reason for the blurred regions in defocused-blurred images. It may adversely affect various image features such as texture, pixel, and region. Therefore, it is important to…

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Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

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Microscopy images are crucial for life science research, allowing detailed inspection and characterization of cellular and tissue-level structures and functions. However, microscopy data are unavoidably affected by image degradations, such…

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In the application of deep learning on optical coherence tomography (OCT) data, it is common to train classification networks using 2D images originating from volumetric data. Given the micrometer resolution of OCT systems, consecutive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Iulian Emil Tampu , Anders Eklund , Neda Haj-Hosseini

In example-based super-resolution, the function relating low-resolution images to their high-resolution counterparts is learned from a given dataset. This data-driven approach to solving the inverse problem of increasing image resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Alexander Robey , Vidya Ganapati

This article presents a physics-informed deep learning method for the quantitative estimation of the spatial coordinates of gamma interactions within a monolithic scintillator, with a focus on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. A…

Inverse wave scattering aims at determining the properties of an object using data on how the object scatters incoming waves. In order to collect information, sensors are put in different locations to send and receive waves from each other.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hanyang Jiang , Yuehaw Khoo , Haizhao Yang

A robust method and strategy for efficient full field-ofview and depth separation optical imaging through scattering media regardless of the three-dimensional (3D) optical memory effect are proposed. In this method, the problem of imaging…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-17 Wei Li , Jietao Liu , Shunfu He , Lixian Liu , Xiaopeng Shao

Far-field super-resolution fluorescence microscopy has been rapidly developed for applications ranging from cell biology to nanomaterials. However, it remains a significant challenge to achieve super-resolution imaging at depth in opaque…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-01 Tengfei Wu , YoonSeok Baek , Fei Xia , Sylvain Gigan , Hilton B. de Aguiar

Recently, deep learning-based denoising approaches have led to dramatic improvements in low sample-count Monte Carlo rendering. These approaches are aimed at path tracing, which is not ideal for simulating challenging light transport…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shilin Zhu , Zexiang Xu , Henrik Wann Jensen , Hao Su , Ravi Ramamoorthi

This paper proposes to go beyond the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) by incorporating the information from object detection, focusing on dealing with fine-grained image classification. Unfortunately, CNN suffers…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent non-invasive imaging method which provides high resolution volumetric visualization of retina. However, its inherent defect, the speckle noise, can seriously deteriorate the tissue…

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This work is concerned with the following fundamental question in scientific machine learning: Can deep-learning-based methods solve noise-free inverse problems to near-perfect accuracy? Positive evidence is provided for the first time,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Martin Genzel , Ingo Gühring , Jan Macdonald , Maximilian März

A method for reconstructing the direction of a fast neutron source using a segmented organic scintillator-based detector and deep learning model is proposed and analyzed. The model is based on recurrent neural network, which can be trained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-27 Jun Woo Bae , Tingshiuan C. Wu , Igor Jovanovic

With the growing technology of photon-counting detectors (PCD), spectral CT is a widely concerned topic which has the potential of material differentiation. However, due to some non-ideal factors such as cross talk and pulse pile-up of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Ao Zheng , Hongkai Yang , Li Zhang , Yuxiang Xing

We present an optical metrology system for characterization of topography of micro/nano-structures on a surface or embedded in a semi-transparent material. Based on the principles of scatterometry, where the intensity of scattered light is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-15 Morten Hannibal Madsen , Poul-Erik Hansen

Diffusion-based image generators are promising priors for ill-posed inverse problems like sparse-view X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). As most studies consider synthetic data, it is not clear whether training data mismatch (``domain shift'')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nelas J. Thomsen , Xinyuan Wang , Felix Lucka , Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen

Imaging problems such as the one in nanoCT require the solution of an inverse problem, where it is often taken for granted that the forward operator, i.e., the underlying physical model, is properly known. In the present work we address the…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical imaging modality that allows us to probe deeper substructures of skin. The state-of-the-art wound care prediction and monitoring methods are based on visual evaluation and focus on surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Prashant Kumar , Swatantra Dhara , Ayan Gope , Jyotirmoy Chatterjee , Subhamoy Mandal