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Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Hung Nien , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Computed tomography is a method for synthesizing volumetric or cross-sectional images of an object from a collection of projections. Popular reconstruction methods for computed tomography are based on idealized models and assumptions that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Frederik H. Pedersen , Jakob S. Jørgensen , Martin S. Andersen

Inspired by their success in solving challenging inverse problems in computer vision, implicit neural representations (INRs) have been recently proposed for reconstruction in low-dose/sparse-view X-ray computed tomography (CT). An INR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Maria Angela Narduzzo

Reconstructing dynamic, time-varying scenes with computed tomography (4D-CT) is a challenging and ill-posed problem common to industrial and medical settings. Existing 4D-CT reconstructions are designed for sparse sampling schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Albert W. Reed , Hyojin Kim , Rushil Anirudh , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Jingu Kang , Suren Jayasuriya

Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang , Qingsong Yang , Jiang Hsieh , Jia Li , Rongjie Lai

With the availability of more powerful computers, iterative reconstruction algorithms are the subject of an ongoing work in the design of more efficient reconstruction algorithms for X-ray computed tomography. In this work, we show how two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 D. Trinca , Y. Zhong

Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential part of modern science and medicine. A CT scanner consists of an X-ray source that is spun around an object of interest. On the opposite end of the X-ray source, a detector captures X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Thomas Germer , Jan Robine , Sebastian Konietzny , Stefan Harmeling , Tobias Uelwer

Low-dose tomography is highly preferred in medical procedures for its reduced radiation risk when compared to standard-dose Computed Tomography (CT). However, the lower the intensity of X-rays, the higher the acquisition noise and hence the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Preeti Gopal , Sharat Chandran , Imants Svalbe , Ajit Rajwade

A long-standing challenge in tomography is the 'missing wedge' problem, which arises when the acquisition of projection images within a certain angular range is restricted due to geometrical constraints. This incomplete dataset results in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Chonghang Zhao , Mingyuan Ge , Xiaogang Yang , Yong S. Chu , Hanfei Yan

Since X-ray tomography is now widely adopted in many different areas, it becomes more crucial to find a robust routine of handling tomographic data to get quality reconstructed images. Though there are several existing techniques, it seems…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Kyungtaek Jun , Seokhwan Yoon , Kyu Kwon

Conventional tomographic reconstruction typically depends on centralized servers for both data storage and computation, leading to concerns about memory limitations and data privacy. Distributed reconstruction algorithms mitigate these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Runxuan Miao , Selin Aslan , Erdem Koyuncu , Doğa Gürsoy

Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Meaney , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Samuli Siltanen

Accurate reconstruction of arbitrary-shaped long slender continuum bodies, such as guidewires, catheters and other soft continuum manipulators, is essential for accurate mechanical simulation. However, existing image-based reconstruction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yaozhi Zhang , Shun Yu , Yugang Zhang , Yang Liu

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

This article is intended to supplement our 2015 paper in Medical Physics titled "Noise properties of CT images reconstructed by use of constrained total-variation, data-discrepancy minimization", in which ordered subsets methods were…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Sean Rose , Martin S. Andersen , Emil Y. Sidky , Xiaochuan Pan

Computed tomography (CT) can provide a 3D view of the patient's internal organs, facilitating disease diagnosis, but it incurs more radiation dose to a patient and a CT scanner is much more cost prohibitive than an X-ray machine too.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Xingde Ying , Heng Guo , Kai Ma , Jian Wu , Zhengxin Weng , Yefeng Zheng

In this paper, we investigate image reconstruction for dynamic Computed Tomography. The motion of the target with respect to the measurement acquisition rate leads to highly resolved in time but highly undersampled in space measurements.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Pablo Arratia , Matthias Ehrhardt , Lisa Kreusser

In the past decades, Computed Tomography (CT) has established itself as one of the most important imaging techniques in medicine. Today, the applicability of CT is only limited by the deposited radiation dose, reduction of which manifests…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Martin Zach , Erich Kobler , Thomas Pock