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Since 2016, deep learning (DL) has advanced tomographic imaging with remarkable successes, especially in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging. Despite being driven by big data, the LDCT denoising and pure end-to-end reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Wenjun Xia , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an overview of the different developments and the technical problems…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Stefaan Vandenberghe , Paul Marsden

Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images can reveal the distribution of tracers in the organism and the dynamic processes involved in biochemical reactions, and it is widely used in clinical practice. Despite the high effectiveness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Jie Sun , Junyan Zhang , Qian Xia , Chuanfu Sun , Yumei Chen , Yunjie Yang , Huafeng Liu , Wentao Zhu , Qiegen Liu

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier , Volkmar Schulz

In dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction, the importance of leveraging the temporal dependence of the data has been well appreciated. Current deep-learning solutions can be categorized in two groups in the way the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Yubo Ye , Huafeng Liu , Linwei Wang

Diffusion models have shown great promise in medical image denoising and reconstruction, but their application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging remains limited by tracer-specific contrast variability and high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Fumio Hashimoto , Kuang Gong

PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kuang Gong , Jiahui Guan , Kyungsang Kim , Xuezhu Zhang , Georges El Fakhri , Jinyi Qi , Quanzheng Li

Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural network-based machine learning techniques have received interest as a means of accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A number of ideas inspired by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-03 Florian Knoll , Kerstin Hammernik , Chi Zhang , Steen Moeller , Thomas Pock , Daniel K. Sodickson , Mehmet Akcakaya

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has long been considered to be among "the gold standards" of diagnostic medical imaging. The long acquisition times, however, render MRI prone to motion artifacts, let alone their adverse contribution to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Tomer Weiss , Ortal Senouf , Sanketh Vedula , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Alex Bronstein

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) offers improved diagnostic performance through better spatial and energy resolution, but developing high-quality image reconstruction methods that can deal with these large datasets is challenging. Model-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Alma Eguizabal , Ozan Öktem , Mats U. Persson

Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural network-based machine-learning techniques have received significant interest for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition and reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Arghya Pal , Yogesh Rathi

PET suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, the k-space data acquisition process in MRI is time-consuming by PET-MRI systems. We aim to accelerate MRI and improve PET image quality. This paper proposed a novel joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Taofeng Xie , Zhuoxu Cui , Congcong Liu , Chen Luo , Huayu Wang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Xuemei Wang , Yihang Zhou , Qiyu Jin , Guoqing Chen , Dong Liang , Haifeng Wang

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction is a fundamental task aimed at recovering high-quality images from undersampled or low-quality MRI data. This process enhances diagnostic accuracy and optimizes clinical applications. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Xiaoyan Kui , Zijie Fan , Zexin Ji , Qinsong Li , Chengtao Liu , Weixin Si , Beiji Zou

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

This dissertation is devoted to provide advanced nonconvex nonsmooth variational models of (Magnetic Resonance Image) MRI reconstruction, efficient learnable image reconstruction algorithms and parameter training algorithms that improve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Wanyu Bian

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

The escalating global cancer burden underscores the critical need for precise diagnostic tools in oncology. This research employs deep learning to enhance lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging, utilizing a dataset of 900 whole-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jiayi Liu , Qiaoyi Xue , Youdan Feng , Tianming Xu , Kaixin Shen , Chuyun Shen , Yuhang Shi

Image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data has been playing an important role for fast MRI. Recently, deep learning has demonstrated tremendous success in various fields and also shown potential to significantly speed up MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Dong Liang , Jing Cheng , Ziwen Ke , Leslie Ying

Multi-contrast MRI images provide complementary contrast information about the characteristics of anatomical structures and are commonly used in clinical practice. Recently, a multi-flip-angle (FA) and multi-echo GRE method (MULTIPLEX MRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Eric Z. Chen , Yongquan Ye , Xiao Chen , Jingyuan Lyu , Zhongqi Zhang , Yichen Hu , Terrence Chen , Jian Xu , Shanhui Sun