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The EMCCD is a type of CCD that delivers fast readout times and negligible readout noise, making it an ideal detector for high frame rate applications which improve resolution, like lucky imaging or shift-and-add. This improvement in…

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Due to its wide field of view, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is plagued by large amounts of scatter, where attenuated photons hit the detector, and corrupt the linear models used for reconstruction. Given that one can generate a good…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Jonathan Mason , Alessandro Perelli , William Nailon , Mike Davies

While Computerized Tomography (CT) images can help detect disease such as Covid-19, regular CT machines are large and expensive. Cheaper and more portable machines suffer from errors in geometry acquisition that downgrades CT image quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Peijian Ding

The skeletal region is one of the common sites of metastatic spread of cancer in the breast and prostate. CT is routinely used to measure the size of lesions in the bones. However, they can be difficult to spot due to the wide variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tao Sheng , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Alexander Shieh , Ronald M. Summers

Metric learning plays a critical role in training image retrieval and classification. It is also a key algorithm in representation learning, e.g., for feature learning and its alignment in metric space. Hyperbolic embedding has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shiyang Yan , Zongxuan Liu , Lin Xu

Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used for cancer screening, such as early detection of lung cancer. However, CT studies have varying pixel spacing due to differences in acquisition parameters. Thick slice CTs have lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Meng Li , Shiwen Shen , Wen Gao , William Hsu , Jason Cong

Displacement estimation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is relevant for several potential applications, e.g. for optical coherence elastography (OCE) for corneal biomechanical characterization. Larger displacements may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Hossein Khodadadi , Orcun Goksel , Sabine Kling

For whole-body (WB) kinetic modeling based on a typical PET scanner, a multi-pass multi-bed scanning protocol is necessary given the limited axial field-of-view. Such a protocol introduces loss of early-dynamics in time-activity curves…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kyung-Nam Lee , Arman Rahmim , Carlos Uribe

Exudative (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss in older adults, typically treated with intravitreal injections. Emerging therapies, such as subretinal injections of stem cells, gene therapy, small…

Beam hardening (BH) is one of the major artifacts that severely reduces the quality of Computed Tomography (CT) imaging. In a polychromatic X-ray beam, since low-energy photons are more preferentially absorbed, the attenuation of the beam…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Ammar Alsaffar , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Metal artifact correction is a challenging problem in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning. Metal implants inserted into the anatomy cause severe artifacts in reconstructed images. Widely used inpainting-based metal artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Harshit Agrawal , Ari Hietanen , Simo Särkkä

We propose a new modeling approach for scatter estimation and descattering in polyenergetic X-ray computed tomography (CT) based on fitting models to local neighborhoods of a training set. X-ray CT is widely used in medical and industrial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jennifer L. Schei , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Detecting lesions in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task in medical image processing due to the diverse types, sizes, and locations of lesions. Recently, various one-stage and two-stage framework networks have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Di Fan , Heng Yu , Zhiyuan Xu

Spectral Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (SPCCT) is a promising technology that has shown a number of advantages over conventional X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in the form of material separation, artefact removal and enhanced image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Dimitris Kamilis , Mario Blatter , Nick Polydorides

Recent progress in 4D implicit representation focuses on globally controlling the shape and motion with low dimensional latent vectors, which is prone to missing surface details and accumulating tracking error. While many deep local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Boyan Jiang , Xinlin Ren , Mingsong Dou , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu , Yinda Zhang

Large-scale transmission radiography scanners are used to image vehicles and cargo containers. Acquired images are inspected for threats by a human operator or a computer algorithm. To make accurate detections, it is important that image…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-15 Thomas W. Rogers , James Ollier , Edward J. Morton , Lewis D. Griffin

This work presents a proof-of-concept solution designed to improve the accuracy of radiographic feature characterisation in pre-surgical CT/MR volumes. The solution involves 3D co-location of 2D digital histology slides within ex-vivo,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Robert Phillips , Constantine Zakkaroff , Keren Dittmer , Nicholas Robillard , Kenzie Baer , Anthony Butler

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers advantages over conventional fan-beam CT in that it requires a shorter time and less exposure to obtain images. CBCT has found a wide variety of applications in patient positioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 S. Kida , S. Kaji , K. Nawa , T. Imae , T. Nakamoto , S. Ozaki , T. Ohta , Y. Nozawa , K. Nakagawa

Computed Tomography (CT) image reconstruction is crucial for accurate diagnosis and deep learning approaches have demonstrated significant potential in improving reconstruction quality. However, the choice of loss function profoundly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yipeng Sun , Yixing Huang , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Mareike Thies , Mingxuan Gu , Siyuan Mei , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

3D object reconstruction is a fundamental task of many robotics and AI problems. With the aid of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), 3D object reconstruction has witnessed a significant progress in recent years. However, possibly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hanqing Wang , Jiaolong Yang , Wei Liang , Xin Tong