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For the planning of radiotherapy treatments for head and neck cancers, Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the patients are typically employed. However, in patients with head and neck cancer, the quality of standard CT scans generated using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Belén Serrano-Antón , Mubashara Rehman , Niki Martinel , Michele Avanzo , Riccardo Spizzo , Giuseppe Fanetti , Alberto P. Muñuzuri , Christian Micheloni

The sparse-views x-ray computed tomography (CT) is essential for medical diagnosis and industrial nondestructive testing. However, in particular, the reconstructed image usually suffers from complex artifacts and noise, when the sampling is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Genwei Ma , Yining Zhu , Xing Zhao

The ability to capture good quality images in the dark and near-zero lux conditions has been a long-standing pursuit of the computer vision community. The seminal work by Chen et al. [5] has especially caused renewed interest in this area,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Mohit Lamba , Atul Balaji , Kaushik Mitra

In Europe the 20% of the CT scans cover the thoracic region. The acquired images contain information about the cardiovascular system that often remains latent due to the lack of contrast in the cardiac area. On the other hand, the contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Gianmarco Santini , Lorena M. Zumbo , Nicola Martini , Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Andrea Ripoli , Francesco Avogliero , Dante Chiappino , Daniele Della Latta

Recovering color images and videos from highly undersampled data is a fundamental and challenging task in face recognition and computer vision. By the multi-dimensional nature of color images and videos, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Chenjian Pan , Chen Ling , Hongjin He , Liqun Qi , Yanwei Xu

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Chenyu You , Guang Li , Yi Zhang , Xiaoliu Zhang , Hongming Shan , Shenghong Ju , Zhen Zhao , Zhuiyang Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Michael W. Vannier , Punam K. Saha , Ge Wang

Purpose: The goal of this study is to develop a novel deep learning (DL) based reconstruction framework to improve the digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) imaging performance. Methods: In this work, the DIR-DBTnet is developed for DBT image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Ting Su , Xiaolei Deng , Zhenwei Wang , Jiecheng Yang , Jianwei Chen , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Yongshuai Ge

This thesis is concerned with problems related to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The thesis is structured as follows: The first chapter explains what SAR is, and the physical and mathematical background is illuminated. The following…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Jens Klein

With the development of computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, it is possible to acquire multi-energy data by spectral CT. Being different from conventional CT, the X-ray energy spectrum of spectral CT is cutting into several narrow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuanwei He , Li Zeng , Qiong Xu , Zhe Wang , Haijun Yu , Zhaoqiang Shen , Zhaojun Yang , Rifeng Zhou

Since 2016, deep learning (DL) has advanced tomographic imaging with remarkable successes, especially in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging. Despite being driven by big data, the LDCT denoising and pure end-to-end reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Wenjun Xia , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

Non-Local Total Variation (NLTV) has emerged as a useful tool in variational methods for image recovery problems. In this paper, we extend the NLTV-based regularization to multicomponent images by taking advantage of the Structure Tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Giovanni Chierchia , Nelly Pustelnik , Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Statistical iterative reconstruction is expected to improve the image quality of megavoltage computed tomography (MVCT). However, one of the challenges of iterative reconstruction is its large computational cost. The purpose of this work is…

Computed Tomography is one of the efficient and vital modalities of non-destructive techniques (NDT). Various factors influence the CT reconstruction result, including limited projection data, detector electronics optimization, background…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Kajal Kumari , Mayank Goswami

Dual-energy X-ray Computed Tomography (DECT) constitutes an advanced technology which enables automatic decomposition of materials in clinical images without manual segmentation using the dependency of the X-ray linear attenuation with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hang Xu , Alexandre Bousse , Alessandro Perelli

Applying standard algorithms to sparse data problems in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) yields low-quality images containing severe under-sampling artifacts. To some extent, these artifacts can be reduced by iterative image reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Stephan Antholzer , Johannes Schwab , Robert Nuster , Markus Haltmeier

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of head Computed Tomography (CT) images elucidates the intricate spatial relationships of tissue structures, thereby assisting in accurate diagnosis. Nonetheless, securing an optimal head CT scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Bowen Zheng , Chenxi Huang , Yuemei Luo

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Reconstruction of CT images from a limited set of projections through an object is important in several applications ranging from medical imaging to industrial settings. As the number of available projections decreases, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anish Lahiri , Marc Klasky , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Saiprasad Ravishankar

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of diffraction tomography (DT), which is an inverse scattering technique used to find material properties of an object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Florian Faucher , Clemens Kirisits , Michael Quellmalz , Otmar Scherzer , Eric Setterqvist