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Neurological Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a critical imaging modality for diagnosing and studying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. However, the inherent low spatial resolution of PET images poses significant…

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Aside from offering state-of-the-art performance in medical image generation, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) can also serve as a representation learner to capture semantic information and potentially be used as an image…

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Depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding is an effective strategy for reducing parallax error and preserving spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), particularly in compact small-animal scanners. To enable efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Satzhan Sitmukhambetov , Junwei Du , Mingwu Jin , Yujie Chi

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, typically lasting less than half a second. Recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Numerous oncology indications have extensively quantified metabolically active tumors using positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT). F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is frequently utilized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Sepideh Amiri , Bulat Ibragimov

Computed tomography (CT) serves as an effective tool for lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, providing a rich source of features to quantify temporal and spatial tumor changes. Nonetheless, the diversity of CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Faraneh Fathi , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Guoqiang Yu , Jin Chen

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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This study introduces a novel framework for joint reconstruction of the activity and the attenuation (JRAA) in positron emission tomography (PET) using diffusion posterior sampling (DPS). By leveraging diffusion models (DMs), this approach…

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is essential for breast cancer diagnosis due to its ability to characterize tissue through contrast agent kinetics. However, traditional DCE-MRI protocols require multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ruben D. Fonnegra , Maria Liliana Hernández , Juan C. Caicedo , Gloria M. Díaz

Tau positron emission tomography (tau-PET) is an important in vivo biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, but its cost, limited availability, and acquisition burden restrict broad clinical use. This work proposes an interpretable multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Agamdeep S. Chopra , Caitlin Neher , Tianyi Ren , Juampablo E. Heras Rivera , Hesam Jahanian , Mehmet Kurt

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a Nuclear Medicine technique that creates images that allow the study of metabolic activity and organ function using radiopharmaceuticals. Continuous improvement of scintillation detectors for radiation…

Accurate lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT scans is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, but limited datasets often hinder the performance of automated segmentation models. In this paper, we explore the potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Lap Yan Lennon Chan , Chenxin Li , Yixuan Yuan

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in various medical imaging tasks, such as denoising, registration, and segmentation, by representing images as continuous functions, allowing complex details to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Younès Moussaoui , Diana Mateus , Nasrin Taheri , Saïd Moussaoui , Thomas Carlier , Simon Stute

Parametric imaging of nuclear medicine data exploits dynamic functional images in order to reconstruct maps of kinetic parameters related to the metabolism of a specific tracer injected in the biological tissue. From a computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Serena Crisci , Michele Piana , Valeria Ruggiero , Mara Scussolini

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is widely used in a number of clinical applications, including cancer and Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, monitoring of disease development, and treatment effect evaluation. Statistical…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Akhil Ambekar , Robert Zielinski , Ani Eloyan

Generating positron emission tomography (PET) images from computed tomography (CT) scans via deep learning offers a promising pathway to reduce radiation exposure and costs associated with PET imaging, improving patient care and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Valerio Guarrasi , Francesco Di Feola , Rebecca Restivo , Lorenzo Tronchin , Paolo Soda

Imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are key in cancer detection, inspiring Deep Neural Networks (DNN) models that merge these scans for tumor segmentation. When both CT and PET scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Nada Saadi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an active research area. Previous studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar , Himashi Peiris , Victoria Mar , Cameron Dennis Pain , Zhaolin Chen

Background: A crucial initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis is the segmentation of tumor lesions enabling accurate feature ex-traction, tumor characterization, oncologic staging, and image-based therapy response…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ludovic Sibille , Xinrui Zhan , Lei Xiang

Though significant progress in human pose and shape recovery from monocular RGB images has been made in recent years, obtaining 3D human motion with high accuracy and temporal consistency from videos remains challenging. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ming Chen , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang