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Tomographic image reconstruction is relevant for many medical imaging modalities including X-ray, ultrasound (US) computed tomography (CT) and photoacoustics, for which the access to full angular range tomographic projections might be not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Valery Vishnevskiy , Richard Rau , Orcun Goksel

A CT image can be well reconstructed when the sampling rate of the sinogram satisfies the Nyquist criteria and the sampled signal is noise-free. However, in practice, the sinogram is usually contaminated by noise, which degrades the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Sparse-view Computed Tomography (CT) is an emerging protocol designed to reduce X-ray dose radiation in medical imaging. Traditional Filtered Back Projection algorithm reconstructions suffer from severe artifacts due to sparse data. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Elena Loli Piccolomini , Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti

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

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steve. J. Schiff , Vishal Monga

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

We introduce a novel optimization algorithm for image recovery under learned sparse and low-rank constraints, which we parameterize as weighted extensions of the $\ell_p^p$-vector and $\mathcal S_p^p$ Schatten-matrix quasi-norms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , Iaroslav Koshelev

Reducing the bit-depth is an effective approach to lower the cost of optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and increase the transmission efficiency in data acquisition and telemedicine. However, a low bit-depth will lead to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Qiangjiang Hao , Kang Zhou , Jianlong Yang , Liyang Fang , Zhengjie Chai , Yuhui Ma , Yan Hu , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly utilized for image-guided radiotherapy due to its outstanding soft-tissue contrast and lack of ionizing radiation. However, geometric distortions caused by gradient nonlinearity (GNL) limit…

Parallel magnetic resonance imaging has served as an effective and widely adopted technique for accelerating scans. The advent of sparse sampling offers aggressive acceleration, allowing flexible sampling and better reconstruction.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Xinlin Zhang , Di Guo , Yiman Huang , Ying Chen , Liansheng Wang , Feng Huang , Xiaobo Qu

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Computational imaging, especially non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lianfang Wang , Kuilin Qin , Xueying Liu , Huibin Chang , Yong Wang , Yuping Duan

As a method of image restoration, image super-resolution has been extensively studied at first. How to transform a low-resolution image to restore its high-resolution image information is a problem that researchers have been exploring. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mingming Xiu , Yang Nie , Qing Song , Chun Liu

In machine learning approach to image denoising a network is trained to recover a clean image from a noisy one. In this paper a novel structure is proposed based on training multiple specialized networks as opposed to existing structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Seyed Mohsen Hosseini

In this work, we present a novel self-supervised method for Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction. Reducing the radiation dose to patients during a CT scan is a crucial challenge since the quality of the reconstruction highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Hang Xu , Alessandro Perelli

Low-light images, i.e. the images captured in low-light conditions, suffer from very poor visibility caused by low contrast, color distortion and significant measurement noise. Low-light image enhancement is about improving the visibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jinxiu Liang , Yong Xu , Yuhui Quan , Jingwen Wang , Haibin Ling , Hui Ji

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) is clinically desirable due to the reduced radiation to patients. However, the quality of LDCT images is often sub-optimal because of the inevitable strong quantum noise. Inspired by their unprecedent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Untrained networks inspired by deep image priors have shown promising capabilities in recovering high-quality images from noisy or partial measurements without requiring training sets. Their success is widely attributed to implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Yilin Liu , Yunkui Pang , Jiang Li , Yong Chen , Pew-Thian Yap

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Chenyu You , Guang Li , Yi Zhang , Xiaoliu Zhang , Hongming Shan , Shenghong Ju , Zhen Zhao , Zhuiyang Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Michael W. Vannier , Punam K. Saha , Ge Wang

Many imaging technologies rely on tomographic reconstruction, which requires solving a multidimensional inverse problem given a finite number of projections. Backprojection is a popular class of algorithm for tomographic reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Xueqing Liu , Paul Sajda

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenged by severe noise and compromised data fidelity under reduced radiation exposure. Most existing methods operate either in the image or post-log projection domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bin Huang , Xun Yu , Yikun Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

CT image reconstruction from incomplete data, such as sparse views and limited angle reconstruction, is an important and challenging problem in medical imaging. This work proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (CNN), called…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Baodong Liu