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Images from positron emission tomography (PET) provide metabolic information about the human body. They present, however, a spatial resolution that is limited by physical and instrumental factors often modeled by a blurring function. Since…

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Recent work has shown that the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) induces a strong prior that favors natural images. This prior, known as a deep image prior (DIP), is an effective regularizer in inverse problems such as image…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a vital imaging modality widely used in clinical diagnosis and preclinical research but faces limitations in image resolution and signal-to-noise ratio due to inherent physical degradation factors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Boxiao Yu , Kuang Gong

We present a comprehensive overview of the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework and its applications to image reconstruction in computed tomography. Unlike conventional deep learning methods that rely on large, supervised datasets, the DIP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Simon Arridge , Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta

Deep learning based PET image reconstruction methods have achieved promising results recently. However, most of these methods follow a supervised learning paradigm, which rely heavily on the availability of high-quality training labels. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Rui Hu , Yunmei Chen , Kyungsang Kim , Marcio Aloisio Bezerra Cavalcanti Rockenbach , Quanzheng Li , Huafeng Liu

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a broadly applicable framework for solving inverse problems by using priors specified as denoisers. While RED has been shown to provide state-of-the-art performance in a number of applications, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Mingyang Xie , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Positron emission tomography(PET) image reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers from high level of noise due to limited counts received. Recently deep neural networks especially convolutional neural networks(CNN) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Rui Hu , Huafeng Liu

Single image inverse problem is a notoriously challenging ill-posed problem that aims to restore the original image from one of its corrupted versions. Recently, this field has been immensely influenced by the emergence of deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qianwei Zhou , Chen Zhou , Haigen Hu , Yuhang Chen , Shengyong Chen , Xiaoxin Li

Inverse problems in image processing are typically cast as optimization tasks, consisting of data-fidelity and stabilizing regularization terms. A recent regularization strategy of great interest utilizes the power of denoising engines. Two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Regev Cohen , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Deep image prior (DIP) was recently introduced as an effective unsupervised approach for image restoration tasks. DIP represents the image to be recovered as the output of a deep convolutional neural network, and learns the network's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Riccardo Barbano , Johannes Leuschner , Maximilian Schmidt , Alexander Denker , Andreas Hauptmann , Peter Maaß , Bangti Jin

Deep image prior (DIP) is an unsupervised deep learning framework that has been successfully applied to a variety of inverse imaging problems. However, DIP-based methods are inherently prone to overfitting, which leads to performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Panagiotis Gkotsis , Athanasios A. Rontogiannis

Regularization by Denoising (RED) is a well-known method for solving image restoration problems by using learned image denoisers as priors. Since the regularization parameter in the traditional RED does not have any physical interpretation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Pasquale Cascarano , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Xiaojian Xu

The vast majority of image recovery tasks are ill-posed problems. As such, methods that are based on optimization use cost functions that consist of both fidelity and prior (regularization) terms. A recent line of works imposes the prior by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Einav Yogev-Ofer , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

List-mode positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is an important tool for PET scanners with many lines-of-response and additional information such as time-of-flight and depth-of-interaction. Deep learning is one possible…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kibo Ote , Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Takashi Isobe , Yasuomi Ouchi

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

Image denoising is often empowered by accurate prior information. In recent years, data-driven neural network priors have shown promising performance for RGB natural image denoising. Compared to classic handcrafted priors (e.g., sparsity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Yu-Chun Miao , Xi-Le Zhao , Xiao Fu , Jian-Li Wang , Yu-Bang Zheng

The deep image prior (DIP) is a well-established unsupervised deep learning method for image reconstruction; yet it is far from being flawless. The DIP overfits to noise if not early stopped, or optimized via a regularized objective. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Marco Nittscher , Michael Lameter , Riccardo Barbano , Johannes Leuschner , Bangti Jin , Peter Maass

Deep neural networks are a very powerful tool for many computer vision tasks, including image restoration, exhibiting state-of-the-art results. However, the performance of deep learning methods tends to drop once the observation model used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Jenny Zukerman , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Image denoising is a representative image restoration task in computer vision. Recent progress of image denoising from only noisy images has attracted much attention. Deep image prior (DIP) demonstrated successful image denoising from only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Tsukasa Takagi , Shinya Ishizaki , Shin-ichi Maeda

PET is affected by statistical noise due to constraints on tracer dose and scan duration, impacting both diagnostic performance and quantitative accuracy. While deep learning (DL)-based PET denoising methods have been used to improve image…