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The tradeoff between receptive field size and efficiency is a crucial issue in low level vision. Plain convolutional networks (CNNs) generally enlarge the receptive field at the expense of computational cost. Recently, dilated filtering has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pengju Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo

Sparse-view CT reconstruction, aimed at reducing X-ray radiation risks, frequently suffers from image quality degradation, manifested as noise and artifacts. Existing post-processing and dual-domain techniques, although effective in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Xinyuan Wang , Changqing Su , Bo Xiong

Computed tomography (CT) scans offer a detailed, three-dimensional representation of patients' internal organs. However, conventional CT reconstruction techniques necessitate acquiring hundreds or thousands of x-ray projections through a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Chulong Zhang , Lin Liu , Jingjing Dai , Xuan Liu , Wenfeng He , Yinping Chan , Yaoqin Xie , Feng Chi , Xiaokun Liang

Objective. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has the potential to improve contrast, reduce artifacts and the ability to perform material decomposition in advanced imaging applications. The increased number or measurements results with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Alessandro Perelli , Suxer Alfonso Garcia , Alexandre Bousse , Jean-Pierre Tasu , Nikolaos Efthimiadis , Dimitris Visvikis

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) represents a significant improvement in patient safety through lower radiation doses, but increased noise, blur, and contrast loss can diminish diagnostic quality. Therefore, consistency and robustness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kagan Celik , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Since the number of incident energies is limited, it is difficult to directly acquire hyperspectral images (HSI) with high spatial resolution. Considering the high dimensionality and correlation of HSI, super-resolution (SR) of HSI remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tingting Liu , Yuan Liu , Chuncheng Zhang , Yuan Liyin , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Positron emission tomography (PET) suffers from severe resolution limitations which limit its quantitative accuracy. In this paper, we present a super-resolution (SR) imaging technique for PET based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Tzu-An Song , Samadrita Roy Chowdhury , Fan Yang , Joyita Dutta

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification successively alternate convolutions and downsampling operations, such as pooling layers or strided convolutions, resulting in lower resolution features the deeper the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Ioannis Vezakis , Antonios Vezakis , Sofia Gourtsoyianni , Vassilis Koutoulidis , George K. Matsopoulos , Dimitrios Koutsouris

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising have recently attracted increasing research interest. However, plain networks cannot recover fine details for a complex task, such as real noisy images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Bo Du , Chia-Wen Lin , David Zhang

Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yunliang Zhuang , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Lyu

CT image reconstruction from incomplete data, such as sparse views and limited angle reconstruction, is an important and challenging problem in medical imaging. This work proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (CNN), called…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Baodong Liu

Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jussi Toivanen , Alexander Meaney , Samuli Siltanen , Ville Kolehmainen

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great superiority in lesion detection, tissue characterization and material decomposition. To further extend its potential clinical applications, in this work, we propose an improved tensor dictionary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Weiwen Wu , Yanbo Zhang , Qian Wang , Fenglin Liu , Peijun Chen , Hengyong Yu

The explosive rise of the use of Computer tomography (CT) imaging in medical practice has heightened public concern over the patient's associated radiation dose. However, reducing the radiation dose leads to increased noise and artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sutanu Bera , Prabir Kumar Biswas

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in clinical applications such as diagnosis and image-guided interventions. In this paper, we propose a new deep learning based model for CT image reconstruction with the backbone network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Haimiao Zhang , Baodong Liu , Hengyong Yu , Bin Dong

This study leverages convolutional neural networks to enhance the temporal resolution of 3D angiography in intracranial aneurysms focusing on the reconstruction of volumetric contrast data from sparse and limited projections. Three…

In this work, we develop a novel technique for reconstructing images from projection-based nano- and microtomography. Our contribution focuses on enhancing reconstruction quality, particularly for specimen composed of homogeneous material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anuraag Mishra , Andrea Gilch , Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri , Jan Rolfes , Frauke Liers

The unrolling method has been investigated for learning variational models in X-ray computed tomography. However, it has been observed that directly unrolling the regularization model through gradient descent does not produce satisfactory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yijie Yang , Qifeng Gao , Yuping Duan

Computed tomography from a low radiation dose (LDCT) is challenging due to high noise in the projection data. Popular approaches for LDCT image reconstruction are two-stage methods, typically consisting of the filtered backprojection (FBP)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Tim Selig , Thomas März , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann