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Ultrasound imaging is a cost-effective and radiation-free modality for visualizing anatomical structures in real-time, making it ideal for guiding surgical interventions. However, its limited field-of-view, speckle noise, and imaging…

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This paper presents a novel image reconstruction pipeline for three-gamma (3-{\gamma}) positron emission tomography (PET) aimed at improving spatial resolution and reducing noise in nuclear medicine; the proposed Direct3{\gamma} pipeline…

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Modern biomedical image analysis using deep learning often encounters the challenge of limited annotated data. To overcome this issue, deep generative models can be employed to synthesize realistic biomedical images. In this regard, we…

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Proton therapy offers superior organ-at-risk sparing but is highly sensitive to anatomical changes, making accurate deformable image registration (DIR) across longitudinal CT scans essential. Conventional DIR methods are often too slow for…

Tumor volume and changes in tumor characteristics over time are important biomarkers for cancer therapy. In this context, FDG-PET/CT scans are routinely used for staging and re-staging of cancer, as the radiolabeled fluorodeoxyglucose is…

X-ray photon-counting detector (PCD) offers low noise, high resolution, and spectral characterization, representing a next generation of CT and enabling new biomedical applications. It is well known that involuntary patient motion may…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Mengzhou Li , Chiara Lowe , Anthony Butler , Phil Butler , Ge Wang

LAFOV PET/CT has the potential to unlock new applications such as ultra-low dose PET/CT imaging, multiplexed imaging, for biomarker development and for faster AI-driven reconstruction, but further work is required before these can be…

Doppler holography is an emerging retinal imaging technique that captures the dynamic behavior of blood flow with high temporal resolution, enabling quantitative assessment of retinal hemodynamics. This requires accurate segmentation of…

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SPECT (Single-photon Emission Computerized Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) are essential medical imaging tools, for which the sampling angle number, scan time should be chosen carefully to compromise between image quality…

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In recent times, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have proven effective for medical image generation and denoising, and as representation learners for downstream segmentation. However, segmentation performance is limited by…

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The present paper proposes a novel computational method for parametric imaging of nuclear medicine data. The mathematical procedure is general enough to work for compartmental models of diverse complexity and is effective in the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-15 Mara Scussolini , Sara Garbarino , Gianmario Sambuceti , Giacomo Caviglia , Michele Piana

In PET, the amount of relative (signal-dependent) noise present in different body regions can be significantly different and is inherently related to the number of counts present in that region. The number of counts in a region depends, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ye Li , Jianan Cui , Junyu Chen , Guodong Zeng , Scott Wollenweber , Floris Jansen , Se-In Jang , Kyungsang Kim , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

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Imaging-based early diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease (AD) has become an effective approach, especially by using nuclear medicine imaging techniques such as Positron Emission Topography (PET). In various literature it has been found that PET…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jiaming Guo , Wei Qiu , Xiang Li , Xuandong Zhao , Ning Guo , Quanzheng Li

Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive molecular imaging modality routinely applied in our modern healthcare. High radioactivity caused by the injected tracer dose is a major concern in PET imaging and limits its clinical…

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This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

Fourier ptychography is a recently explored imaging method for overcoming the diffraction limit of conventional cameras with applications in microscopy and yielding high-resolution images. In order to splice together low-resolution images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yican Chen , Zhi Luo , Xia Wu , Huidong Yang , Bo Huang

The third autoPET challenge introduced a new data-centric task this year, shifting the focus from model development to improving metastatic lesion segmentation on PET/CT images through data quality and handling strategies. In response, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Balint Kovacs , Shuhan Xiao , Maximilian Rokuss , Constantin Ulrich , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Ptychography is an enabling coherent diffraction imaging technique for both fundamental and applied sciences. Its applications in optical microscopy, however, fall short for its low imaging throughput and limited resolution. Here, we report…

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