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Super-resolution imaging aims at improving the resolution of an image by enhancing it with other images or data that might have been acquired using different imaging techniques or modalities. In this paper we consider the task of doubling,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann

For reconstruction of the spatial structure of many-component objects, it is proposed to use multi-radiography with detection of X-ray by combined detector arrays using detectors of ``scintillator-photodiode'' type. A theoretical model has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov , B. V. Grinyov , E. K. Lisetskaya , A. D. Opolonin , D. N. Kozin

Here we present new joint reconstruction and regularization techniques inspired by ideas in microlocal analysis and lambda tomography, for the simultaneous reconstruction of the attenuation coefficient and electron density from X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 James Webber , Eric Todd Quinto , Eric L. Miller

3D image reconstruction from a set of X-ray projections is an important image reconstruction problem, with applications in medical imaging, industrial inspection and airport security. The innovation of X-ray emitter arrays allows for a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Maria Klodt , Raphael Hauser

Extending our prior work, we propose a multi-energy X-ray measurement model incorporating material variability with energy correlations to enable the analysis and exploration of the performance of X-ray imaging and sensing systems. Based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Yijun Ding , Amit Ashok

This paper studies the problem of reconstructing binary matrices that are only accessible through few evaluations of their discrete X-rays. Such question is prominently motivated by the demand in material science for developing a tool for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alberto Del Lungo , Andrea Frosini , Maurice Nivat , Laurent Vuillon

Dual-energy computed tomography (CT) is to reconstruct images of an object from two projection datasets generated from two distinct x-ray source energy spectra. It can provide more accurate attenuation quantification than conventional CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Wenxiang Cong , Daniel Harrison , Yan Xi , Ge Wang

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in engineering and medicine for imaging the interior of objects, patients, or animals. If the employed X-ray source is monoenergetic, image reconstruction essentially means the inversion of a ray…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Georgios Papanikos , Benedikt Wirth

In this paper we report a spectrometric approach to dual-energy digital radiography that has been developed and applied to identify specific organic substances and discern small differences in their effective atomic number. An experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-06 S. V. Naydenov , V. D. Ryzhikov , G. M. Onyshchenko , P. Lecoq , C. Smith

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great potential in material identification and decomposition. To achieve high-quality material composition images and further suppress the x-ray beam hardening artifacts, we first propose a one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Weiwen Wu , Qian Wang , Fenglin Liu , Yining Zhu , Hengyong Yu

Spectral imaging is an umbrella term for energy-resolved x-ray imaging in medicine. The technique makes use of the energy dependence of x-ray attenuation to either increase the contrast-to-noise ratio, or to provide quantitative image data…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Erik Fredenberg

Recent work in CT imaging has seen increased interest in the use of total variation (TV) and related penalties to regularize problems involving reconstruction from undersampled or incomplete data. Superiorization is a recently proposed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 T. Humphries , J. Winn , A. Faridani

Hyperspectral analysis has gained popularity over recent years as a way to infer what materials are displayed on a picture whose pixels consist of a mixture of spectral signatures. Computing both signatures and mixture coefficients is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Adrien Faivre , Clément Dombry

Faithful manipulation of shape, material, and illumination in 2D Internet images would greatly benefit from a reliable factorization of appearance into material (i.e., diffuse and specular) and illumination (i.e., environment maps). On the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Tobias Ritschel , Niloy J. Mitra

In this paper, we study the problem of generating a set ofrealistic and diverse backgrounds when given only a smallforeground region. We refer to this task as image outpaint-ing. The technical challenge of this task is to synthesize notonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Lingzhi Zhang , Jiancong Wang , Jianbo Shi

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique, however it has the limitation of long scanning time. Though previous model-based and learning-based MRI reconstruction methods have shown promising performance, most of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Yue Cai , Yu Luo , Jie Ling , Shun Yao

With the advent of infrared long-baseline interferometers with more than two telescopes, both the size and the completeness of interferometric data sets have significantly increased, allowing images based on models with no a priori…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stéphanie Renard , Eric Thiébaut , Fabien Malbet

We propose an adaptive regularization scheme in a variational framework where a convex composite energy functional is optimized. We consider a number of imaging problems including denoising, segmentation and motion estimation, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Hendrik Dirks , Martin Burger

The dual continuum model serves as a powerful tool in the modeling of subsurface applications. It allows a systematic coupling of various components of the solutions. The system is of multiscale nature as it involves high heterogeneous and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Siu Wun Cheung , Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Maria Vasilyeva

Polarized X-rays allow for imaging birefringent or dichroic properties of materials with nanometric resolution. To disentangle these properties from the electronic density, either a polarization analyzer or several measurements with…