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Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…

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…

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Reconstructing 3D cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images from a limited set of projections is an important inverse problem in many imaging applications from medicine to inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The performance of traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Xiaojian Xu , Marc Klasky , Michael T. McCann , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely utilized imaging modality in clinical settings. Using densely acquired rotational X-ray arrays, CT can capture 3D spatial features. However, it is confronted with challenged such as significant time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Duoyou Chen , Yunqing Chen , Can Zhang , Zhou Wang , Cheng Chen , Ruoxiu Xiao

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Computed tomography (CT) reconstructs volumetric images using X-ray projection data acquired from multiple angles around an object. For low-dose or sparse-view CT scans, the classic image reconstruction algorithms often produce severe noise…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Wenxiang Cong , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang

Sparse-view cone-beam CT (CBCT) reconstruction is an important direction to reduce radiation dose and benefit clinical applications. Previous voxel-based generation methods represent the CT as discrete voxels, resulting in high memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Yiqun Lin , Zhongjin Luo , Wei Zhao , Xiaomeng Li

Sparse-view 3D CT reconstruction aims to recover volumetric structures from a limited number of 2D X-ray projections. Existing feedforward methods are constrained by the scarcity of large-scale training datasets and the absence of direct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Guofeng Zhang , Ruyi Zha , Hao He , Yixun Liang , Alan Yuille , Hongdong Li , Yuanhao Cai

Synchrotron-based X-ray computed tomography is widely used for investigating inner structures of specimens at high spatial resolutions. However, potential beam damage to samples often limits the X-ray exposure during tomography experiments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Ziling Wu , Tekin Bicer , Zhengchun Liu , Vincent De Andrade , Yunhui Zhu , Ian T. Foster

Computed tomography (CT) is a major medical imaging modality. Clinical CT scenarios, such as low-dose screening, sparse-view scanning, and metal implants, often lead to severe noise and artifacts in reconstructed images, requiring improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Ge Wang

Model based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithms for low-dose X-ray CT are computationally expensive. To address this problem, we recently proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for low-dose X-ray CT and won the second…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-29 Eunhee Kang , Jaejun Yoo , Jong Chul Ye

To facilitate a prospective estimation of CT effective dose and risk minimization process, a prospective spatial dose estimation and the known anatomical structures are expected. To this end, a CT reconstruction method is required to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Chang Liu , Laura Klein , Yixing Huang , Edith Baader , Michael Lell , Marc Kachelrieß , Andreas Maier

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

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X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction from a sparse number of views is a useful way to reduce either the radiation dose or the acquisition time, for example in fixed-gantry CT systems, however this results in an ill-posed inverse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Alessandro Perelli , Michael Lexa , Ali Can , Mike E. Davies

Ultrasonography offers an inexpensive, widely-accessible and compact medical imaging solution. However, compared to other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI, ultrasound images notoriously suffer from strong speckle noise, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Vincent van de Schaft , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Diffusion and Poisson flow models have shown impressive performance in a wide range of generative tasks, including low-dose CT image denoising. However, one limitation in general, and for clinical applications in particular, is slow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Dennis Hein , Staffan Holmin , Timothy Szczykutowicz , Jonathan S Maltz , Mats Danielsson , Ge Wang , Mats Persson

High-resolution remote sensing images (RSIs) are crucial for Earth observation applications, yet acquiring them is often limited by sensor constraints and costs. In recent years, generative super-resolution (SR) methods, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiangwei Mo , Xi Lu , Hanlin Wu

We introduce S2C-3D, a novel sparse-view 3D reconstruction framework for high-fidelity and complete scene reconstruction from as few as six to eight images. Our framework features three components: a specialized diffusion model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiyang Shen , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

The Computed Tomography (CT) for diagnosis of lesions in human internal organs is one of the most fundamental topics in medical imaging. Low-dose CT, which offers reduced radiation exposure, is preferred over standard-dose CT, and therefore…

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