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Tomographic image reconstruction is relevant for many medical imaging modalities including X-ray, ultrasound (US) computed tomography (CT) and photoacoustics, for which the access to full angular range tomographic projections might be not…

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Synthesized medical images have several important applications, e.g., as an intermedium in cross-modality image registration and as supplementary training samples to boost the generalization capability of a classifier. Especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zizhao Zhang , Lin Yang , Yefeng Zheng

Even though image signals are typically defined on a regular two-dimensional grid, there also exist many scenarios where this is not the case and the amplitude of the image signal only is available for a non-regular subset of pixel…

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Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is a promising solution for expediting the scanning process and mitigating radiation exposure to patients, the reconstructed images, however, contain severe streak artifacts, compromising subsequent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Chenglong Ma , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Multi-scale 3D characterization is widely used by materials scientists to further their understanding of the relationships between microscopic structure and macroscopic function. Scientific computed tomography (CT) instruments are one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 S. V. Venkatakrishnan , K. Aditya Mohan , Amir Koushyar Ziabari , Charles A. Bouman

Reconstructing the detailed geometric structure of a face from a given image is a key to many computer vision and graphics applications, such as motion capture and reenactment. The reconstruction task is challenging as human faces vary…

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Traditional model-based image reconstruction (MBIR) methods combine forward and noise models with simple object priors. Recent application of deep learning methods for image reconstruction provides a successful data-driven approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Ling Chen , Zhishen Huang , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) imaging has been widely used in clinical diagnosis, non-destructive examination, and public safety inspection. Sparse-view (sparse view) CT has great potential in radiation dose reduction and scan…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Kaichao Liang , Hongkai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Hybrid X-ray and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging promises large potential in interventional medical imaging applications due to the broad variety of contrast of MRI combined with fast imaging of X-ray-based modalities. To fully utilize the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Bernhard Stimpel , Christopher Syben , Tobias Würfl , Katharina Breininger , Philipp Hoelter , Arnd Dörfler , Andreas Maier

Recent learning-based lossless image compression methods encode an image in the unit of subimages and achieve comparable performances to conventional non-learning algorithms. However, these methods do not consider the performance drop in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Hochang Rhee , Yeong Il Jang , Seyun Kim , Nam Ik Cho

Filtered back projection (FBP) is a classical method for image reconstruction from sinogram CT data. FBP is computationally efficient but produces lower quality reconstructions than more sophisticated iterative methods, particularly when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Dong Hye Ye , Gregery T. Buzzard , Max Ruby , Charles A. Bouman

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is routinely collected during image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide updated patient anatomy information for cancer treatments. However, CBCT images often suffer from streaking artifacts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiarui Zhu , Werxing Chen , Hongfei Sun , Shaohua Zhi , Jing Qin , Jing Cai , Ge Ren

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

In this paper we present a fast and efficient method for the reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) from severely under-sampled data. From the Compressed Sensing theory we have mathematically modeled the problem as a constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Damiana Lazzaro , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Fabiana Zama

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in producing high-quality images in medical image translation to aid disease diagnosis, localization, and treatment. Nevertheless, current diffusion models have limited success in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiaoxue Qian , You Zhang

Fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers exquisite images of the developing brain but is not suitable for anomaly screening. For this ultrasound (US) is employed. While expert sonographers are adept at reading US images, MR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jianbo Jiao , Ana I. L. Namburete , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Due to the factors like processing power limitations and channel capabilities images are often down sampled and transmitted at low bit rates resulting in a low resolution compressed image. High resolution images can be reconstructed from…

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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 paper proposes a novel, unsupervised super-resolution (SR) approach for performing the SR of a clinical CT into the resolution level of a micro CT ($\mu$CT). The precise non-invasive diagnosis of lung cancer typically utilizes clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-22 Tong Zheng , Hirohisa Oda , Masahiro Oda , Shota Nakamura , Masaki Mori , Hirotsugu Takabatake , Hiroshi Natori , Kensaku Mori

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides varying tissue contrast images of internal organs based on a strong magnetic field. Despite the non-invasive advantage of MRI in frequent imaging, the low contrast MR images in the target area make…

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