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In image processing, it can be a useful pre-processing step to smooth away small structures, such as noise or unimportant details, while retaining the overall structure of the image by keeping edges, which separate objects, sharp. Typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Philipp Kniefacz , Walter Kropatsch

Biological soft tissues encountered in clinical and pre-clinical imaging mainly consist of light element atoms, and their composition is nearly uniform with little density variation. Thus, x-ray attenuation imaging suffers from low image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Wenxiang Cong , Atsushi Momose , Ge Wang

We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

Implicit curve and surface reconstruction attracts the attention of many researchers and gains a wide range of applications, due to its ability to describe objects with complicated geometry and topology. However, extra zero-level sets or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yusuf Fatihu Hamza , Hongwei Lin , Zihao Li

Statistical event reconstruction techniques can give better results for gamma cameras than the traditional centroid method. However, implementation of such techniques requires detailed knowledge of the PMT light response functions. Here we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Morozov , V. Solovov , F. Alves , V. Domingos , R. Martins , F. Neves , V. Chepel

Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hari Om Aggrawal , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , Sean Rose , Emil Y. Sidky

Iterative projection algorithms are successfully being used as a substitute of lenses to recombine, numerically rather than optically, light scattered by illuminated objects. Images obtained computationally allow aberration-free…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Marchesini

Electrical impedance tomography is an imaging modality for extracting information on the conductivity distribution inside a physical body from boundary measurements of current and voltage. In many practical applications, it is a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Lauri Harhanen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander , Stratos Staboulis

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

In this work, we investigate the use of spatio-temporalImplicit Neural Representations (INRs) for dynamic X-ray computed tomography (XCT) reconstruction under interlaced acquisition schemes. The proposed approach combines ADMM-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mathias Boulanger , Ericmoore Jossou

Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) is important because direct methods, such as Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) can introduce significant noise and artifacts in sparse-angle tomography, especially for time-evolving samples. Although…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dinesh Kumar , Jeffrey Donatelli

In this paper we present a new two-level iterative algorithm for tomographic image reconstruction. The algorithm uses a regularization technique, which we call edge-preserving Laplacian, that preserves sharp edges between objects while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Daniil Kazantsev , Evgueni Ovtchinnikov , William R. B. Lionheart , Philip J. Withers , Peter D. Lee

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

We study iterative signal reconstruction in computed tomography (CT), wherein measurements are produced by a linear transformation of the unknown signal followed by an exponential nonlinear map. Approaches based on pre-processing the data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Rebecca Willett

Learned iterative reconstructions hold great promise to accelerate tomographic imaging with empirical robustness to model perturbations. Nevertheless, an adoption for photoacoustic tomography is hindered by the need to repeatedly evaluate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Andreas Hauptmann , Jenni Poimala

In conventional tomographic reconstruction, the pre-processing step includes flat-field correction, where each sample projection on the detector is divided by a reference image taken without the sample. When using coherent X-rays as probe,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Viktor Nikitin , Marcus Carlsson , Doga Gursoy , Rajmund Mokso , Peter Cloetens

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

We present a novel iterative scheme for restoring uneven illumination in grayscale images. Our approach solves, at each global iteration, a nonlinear elliptic equation for an auxiliary field $u$ and then updates the illumination via an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Dragos-Patru Covei

The development of efficient and accurate reconstruction methods is an important aspect of tomographic imaging. In this article, we address this issue for photoacoustic tomography. To this aim, we use models for acoustic wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Markus Haltmeier , Richard Kowar , Linh V. Nguyen

We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Mengqi Lou , Kabir Aladin Verchand , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Ashwin Pananjady