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Segmenting anatomical structures in medical images has been successfully addressed with deep learning methods for a range of applications. However, this success is heavily dependent on the quality of the image that is being segmented. A…

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Photon counting detectors (PCDs) offer promising advancements in computed tomography (CT) imaging by enabling the quantification and 3D imaging of contrast agents and tissue types through multi-energy projections. However, the accuracy of…

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Computed tomography (CT) images are frequently degraded by acquisition artifacts, including noise, blur, streaking, aliasing, and metal artifacts. Yet CT enhancement is still largely evaluated using image quality metrics with limited…

Three-dimensional x-ray CT image reconstruction in baggage scanning in security applications is an important research field. The variety of materials to be reconstructed is broader than medical x-ray imaging. Presence of high attenuating…

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This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

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Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals may get easily contaminated by muscle artifacts, which may lead to wrong interpretation in the brain--computer interface (BCI) system as well as in various medical diagnoses. The main objective of this…

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The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

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Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

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Cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for diagnosis of cardiac diseases thanks to its ability to present cardiovascular features in excellent contrast. As compared to computed tomography (CT), MRI, however, requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Yibin Xie , Debiao Li , Ge Wang

The idea of using fragment embedding to circumvent the high computational scaling of accurate electronic structure methods while retaining high accuracy has been a long-standing goal for quantum chemists. Traditional fragment embedding…

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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…

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Spectral computed tomography (CT) has a great potential in material identification and decomposition. To achieve high-quality material composition images and further suppress the x-ray beam hardening artifacts, we first propose a one-step…

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In this article, we present a denoising algorithm to improve the interpretation and quality of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. Given the high level of self-similarity of STM images, we propose a denoising algorithm by…

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Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is one of the most influential diagnostic methods. In clinical reconstruction, an effective energy is used instead of total X-ray spectrum. This approximation causes an accuracy decline. To increase the…

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The potential huge advantage of spectral computed tomography (CT) is its capability to provide accuracy material identification and quantitative tissue information. This can benefit clinical applications, such as brain angiography, early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Weiwen Wu , Haijun Yu , Peijun Chen , Fulin Luo , Fenglin Liu , Qian Wang , Yining Zhu , Yanbo Zhang , Jian Feng , Hengyong Yu

We introduce DEIM, an innovative and efficient training framework designed to accelerate convergence in real-time object detection with Transformer-based architectures (DETR). To mitigate the sparse supervision inherent in one-to-one (O2O)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Shihua Huang , Zhichao Lu , Xiaodong Cun , Yongjun Yu , Xiao Zhou , Xi Shen

Medical imaging is playing a more and more important role in clinics. However, there are several issues in different imaging modalities such as slow imaging speed in MRI, radiation injury in CT and PET. Therefore, accelerating MRI, reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Qiegen Liu , Qiyang Zhang , Ting Su , Jianwei Chen , Yongshuai Ge , Zhanli Hu , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

The existence of metallic implants in projection images for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) introduces undesired artifacts which degrade the quality of reconstructed images. In order to reduce metal artifacts, projection inpainting is…

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