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X-ray imaging is an invaluable tool for noninvasive analysis in many fields ranging from basic science to medicine and security. The development of low-dose large area imaging solutions still represents an important challenge for various…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-07 M. Simões , P. Vaz , A. F. V. Cortez

Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions from a single scan have tremendous potential to streamline exams and reduce imaging time. However, maintaining clinically feasible scan time necessitates significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Ke Wang , Enhao Gong , Yuxin Zhang , Suchadrima Banerjee , Greg Zaharchuk , John Pauly

This paper focuses on minimizing the time requirement for CT capture through innovative simultaneous x-ray capture method. The state-of-the-art CT imaging methodology captures a sequence of projections during which the internal organ…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Sajib Saha , Murat Tahtali , Andrew Lambert , Mark Pickering

We previously demonstrated near-field speckle scanning based x-ray imaging to be an easy-to-implement phase sensing method capable of providing both high sensitivity and high resolution. Yet, this performance combination could only be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

In this work, we propose a new paradigm of iterative model-based reconstruction algorithms for providing real-time solution for zooming-in and refining a region of interest in medical and clinical tomographic images. This algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li

Snapshot spectral imaging is rapidly gaining interest for remote sensing applications. Acquiring spatial and spectral data within one image promotes fast measurement times, and reduces the need for stabilized scanning imaging systems. Many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Rebecca French , Sylvain Gigan , Otto L. Muskens

We demonstrate computerized tomography (CT) reconstructions from absorption, phase and dark-field signals obtained from scans acquired when the x-ray probe light is modulated with speckle. Two different interlaced schemes are proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

Single-pixel imaging has emerged as a key technique in fluorescence microscopy, where fast acquisition and reconstruction are crucial. In this context, images are reconstructed from linearly compressed measurements. In practice, total…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Serban C. Tudosie , Valerio Gandolfi , Shivaprasad Varakkoth , Andrea Farina , Cosimo D'Andrea , Simon Arridge

In this work, we propose a few-shot colorectal tissue image generation method for addressing the scarcity of histopathological training data for rare cancer tissues. Our few-shot generation method, named XM-GAN, takes one base and a pair of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Amandeep Kumar , Ankan kumar Bhunia , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jorma Laaksonen , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Images captured through smartphone cameras often suffer from degradation, blur being one of the major ones, posing a challenge in processing these images for downstream tasks. In this paper we propose low-compute lightweight patch-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Sri Charan Kattamuru , Kshitij Agrawal , Shyam Prasad Adhikari , Abhishek Bose , Hemant Misra

While Computerized Tomography (CT) images can help detect disease such as Covid-19, regular CT machines are large and expensive. Cheaper and more portable machines suffer from errors in geometry acquisition that downgrades CT image quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Peijian Ding

As Micro-CT technology continues to refine its characterization of material microstructures, industrial CT ultra-precision inspection is generating increasingly large datasets, necessitating solutions to the trade-off between accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yipeng Yin , Rao Yao , Qingying Li , Dazhong Wang , Hong Zhou , Zhijun Fang , Jianing Chen , Longjie Qian , Mingyue Wu

We address the problem of reconstructing X-Ray tomographic images from scarce measurements by interpolating missing acquisitions using a self-supervised approach. To do so, we train shallow neural networks to combine two neighbouring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Emilien Valat , Katayoun Farrahi , Thomas Blumensath

Sparse tensors appear in many large-scale applications with multidimensional and sparse data. While multidimensional sparse data often need to be processed on manycore processors, attempts to develop highly-optimized GPU-based…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Bangtian Liu , Chengyao Wen , Anand D. Sarwate , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

The diagnosis and treatment of various diseases had been expedited with the help of medical imaging. Different medical imaging modalities, including X-ray, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 S. K. M Shadekul Islam , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Ismail Hossain , Md Azim Ullah , Kishor Datta Gupta , Md Monjur Hossain Bhuiyan

A sparse modeling approach is proposed for analyzing scanning tunneling microscopy topography data, which contains numerous peaks corresponding to surface atoms. The method, based on the relevance vector machine with $\mathrm{L}_1$…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-03-13 Masamichi J. Miyama , Koji Hukushima

The design of new x-ray phase contrast imaging setups often relies on Monte Carlo simulations for prospective parameter studies. Monte Carlo simulations are known to be accurate but time consuming, leading to long simulation times,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jonathan Sanctorum , Jan Sijbers , Jan De Beenhouwer

X-ray imaging is widely employed in clinical medicine, industrial inspection, and various scientific research fields. Unfortunately, most currently used X-ray two-dimensional (2D) detectors suffer from a fundamental trade-off between the…

In computed tomography (CT) reconstruction, scattering causes server quality degradation of the reconstructed CT images by introducing streaks and cupping artifacts which reduce the detectability of low contrast objects. Monte Carlo (MC)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ammar Alsaffar , Steffen Kieß , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xi Yang , Pai Peng , Wulin Xie , Xiaohuan Lu , Jie Wen