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Recovering high-resolution images from limited sensory data typically leads to a serious ill-posed inverse problem, demanding inversion algorithms that effectively capture the prior information. Learning a good inverse mapping from training…

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Restoring high-quality CT images from low dose CT counterparts is an ill-posed, nonlinear problem to which Deep Learning approaches have been giving superior solutions compared to classical model-based approaches. In this article, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Jan Sijbers

Tomographic image reconstruction is generally an ill-posed linear inverse problem. Such ill-posed inverse problems are typically regularized using prior knowledge of the sought-after object property. Recently, deep neural networks have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sayantan Bhadra , Varun A. Kelkar , Frank J. Brooks , Mark A. Anastasio

Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang , Qingsong Yang , Jiang Hsieh , Jia Li , Rongjie Lai

The high complexity of various inverse problems poses a significant challenge to model-based reconstruction schemes, which in such situations often reach their limits. At the same time, we witness an exceptional success of data-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 T. A. Bubba , G. Kutyniok , M. Lassas , M. März , W. Samek , S. Siltanen , V. Srinivasan

In this paper, we consider minimizing the L1/L2 term on the gradient for a limited-angle scanning problem in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. We design a specific splitting framework for an unconstrained optimization model so that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Chao Wang , Min Tao , James Nagy , Yifei Lou

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Compressive sensing (CS) has proved effective for tomographic reconstruction from sparsely collected data or under-sampled measurements, which are practically important for few-view CT, tomosynthesis, interior tomography, and so on. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , Yunjin Chen , Junfeng Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Huaiqiaing Sun , Yang Lv , Peixi Liao , Jiliu Zhou , Ge Wang

Low-dose Computed Tomography is a common issue in reality. Current reduction, sparse sampling and limited-view scanning can all cause it. Between them, limited-view CT is general in the industry due to inevitable mechanical and physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Ken Deng , Chang Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

Limited-angle computerized tomography stands for one of the most difficult challenges in imaging. Although it opens the way to faster data acquisition in industry and less dangerous scans in medicine, standard approaches, such as the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Bernadette Hahn , Gael Rigaud , Richard Schmähl

Limited angle problem is a challenging issue in x-ray computed tomography (CT) field. Iterative reconstruction methods that utilize the additional prior can suppress artifacts and improve image quality, but unfortunately require increased…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Hanming Zhang , Liang Li , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Lei Li , Guoen Hu

Image rescaling is a commonly used bidirectional operation, which first downscales high-resolution images to fit various display screens or to be storage- and bandwidth-friendly, and afterward upscales the corresponding low-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Mingqing Xiao , Shuxin Zheng , Chang Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Tie-Yan Liu

The improvement of computed tomography (CT) image resolution is beneficial to the subsequent medical diagnosis, but it is usually limited by the scanning devices and great expense. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods have…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Chao Tang , Wenkun Zhang , Ziheng Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Lei Li , Ningning Liang , Bin Yan

Deep learning (DL) has shown unprecedented performance for many image analysis and image enhancement tasks. Yet, solving large-scale inverse problems like tomographic reconstruction remains challenging for DL. These problems involve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Lin Fu , Bruno De Man

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware, cost and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steven J. Schiff , Vishal Monga

A long-standing challenge in tomography is the 'missing wedge' problem, which arises when the acquisition of projection images within a certain angular range is restricted due to geometrical constraints. This incomplete dataset results in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Chonghang Zhao , Mingyuan Ge , Xiaogang Yang , Yong S. Chu , Hanfei Yan

Deep learning-based models have demonstrated remarkable success in solving illposed inverse problems; however, many fail to strictly adhere to the physical constraints imposed by the measurement process. In this work, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jorge Bacca

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Zhicheng Zhang , Lequan Yu , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing