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The reconstruction of dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images from noisy projection data is a significant but challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised learning approach, Non-negative Implicit Neural…

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Image reconstruction of low-count positron emission tomography (PET) data is challenging. Kernel methods address the challenge by incorporating image prior information in the forward model of iterative PET image reconstruction. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Siqi Li , Kuang Gong , Ramsey D. Badawi , Edward J. Kim , Jinyi Qi , Guobao Wang

This paper introduces a Bayesian framework for image inversion by deriving a probabilistic counterpart to the regularization-by-denoising (RED) paradigm. It additionally implements a Monte Carlo algorithm specifically tailored for sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Elhadji C. Faye , Mame Diarra Fall , Nicolas Dobigeon

Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Se Young Chun , Yonina C. Eldar , Raja Giryes

Deep learning has been widely used for solving image reconstruction tasks but its deployability has been held back due to the shortage of high-quality training data. Unsupervised learning methods, such as the deep image prior (DIP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Riccardo Barbano , Javier Antorán , Johannes Leuschner , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Bangti Jin , Željko Kereta

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

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Deep Learning based methods have emerged as the indisputable leaders for virtually all image restoration tasks. Especially in the domain of microscopy images, various content-aware image restoration (CARE) approaches are now used to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mangal Prakash , Alexander Krull , Florian Jug

Ultrafast electron beam X-ray computed tomography produces noisy data due to short measurement times, causing reconstruction artifacts and limiting overall image quality. To counteract these issues, two self-supervised deep learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Israt Jahan Tulin , Sebastian Starke , Dominic Windisch , André Bieberle , Peter Steinbach

Positron emission tomography (PET) scanners continue to increase sensitivity and axial coverage by adding an ever expanding array of block detectors. As they age, one or more block detectors may lose sensitivity due to a malfunction or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 William Whiteley , Jens Gregor

Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…

Uncompressed clinical data from modern positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are very large, exceeding 350 million data points (projection bins). The last decades have seen tremendous advancements in mathematical imaging tools many of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Pawel Markiewicz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to significant improvements in image reconstruction. Traditional regularizers, such as total variation (TV), rely on analytical models of sparsity. However, increasingly the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization by denoising (RED) methods have become widely used for solving inverse problems by leveraging pre-trained deep denoisers as image priors. While the empirical imaging performance and the…

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Recently, impressive denoising results have been achieved by Bayesian approaches which assume Gaussian models for the image patches. This improvement in performance can be attributed to the use of per-patch models. Unfortunately such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Cecilia Aguerrebere , Andrés Almansa , Julie Delon , Yann Gousseau , Pablo Musé

Attenuation correction is an essential requirement of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction to allow for accurate quantification. However, attenuation correction is particularly challenging for PET-MRI as neither PET nor…

Limited data and low dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms which lead to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years sinogram denoising has become an essential pre-processing step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Pierre Vandergheynst , Ulf Skoglund

Objective Positron emission tomography (PET) allows imaging of patho-physiological information as a form of rate constants from a dynamic image. The rate constant image(s) may be affected from noise on the dynamic image. We introduced an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Nobuyuki Kudomi , Yukito Maeda

In this study, we propose a simple and effective fine-tuning algorithm called "restore-from-restored", which can greatly enhance the performance of fully pre-trained image denoising networks. Many supervised denoising approaches can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Seunghwan Lee , Dongkyu Lee , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

This paper addresses mesh restoration problems, i.e., denoising and completion, by learning self-similarity in an unsupervised manner. For this purpose, the proposed method, which we refer to as Deep Mesh Prior, uses a graph convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Shota Hattori , Tatsuya Yatagawa , Yutaka Ohtake , Hiromasa Suzuki