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Background: Lung disease is a significant health issue, particularly in children and elderly individuals. It often results from lung infections and is one of the leading causes of mortality in children. Globally, lung-related diseases claim…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Muhammad Ahmad , Sardar Usman , Ildar Batyrshin , Muhammad Muzammil , K. Sajid , M. Hasnain , Muhammad Jalal , Grigori Sidorov

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Efficiently acquired and precisely reconstructed imaging are crucial to the success of modern radiation therapy (RT). Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are two common modalities for providing RT treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Di Xu

Medical imaging is an invaluable resource in medicine as it enables to peer inside the human body and provides scientists and physicians with a wealth of information indispensable for understanding, modelling, diagnosis, and treatment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hanene Ben Yedder , Ben Cardoen , Ghassan Hamarneh

Fast diagnosis and treatment of pneumothorax, a collapsed or dropped lung, is crucial to avoid fatalities. Pneumothorax is typically detected on a chest X-ray image through visual inspection by experienced radiologists. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Antonio Sze-To , Abtin Riasatian , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

The inversion of linear systems is a fundamental step in many inverse problems. Computational challenges exist when trying to invert large linear systems, where limited computing resources mean that only part of the system can be kept in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yushan Gao , Thomas Blumensath

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in engineering and medicine for imaging the interior of objects, patients, or animals. If the employed X-ray source is monoenergetic, image reconstruction essentially means the inversion of a ray…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Georgios Papanikos , Benedikt Wirth

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

While the availability of open 3D medical shape datasets is increasing, offering substantial benefits to the research community, we have found that many of these datasets are, unfortunately, disorganized and contain artifacts. These issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Khoa Tuan Nguyen , Francesca Tozzi , Wouter Willaert , Joris Vankerschaver , Nikdokht Rashidian , Wesley De Neve

Indirect image registration is a promising technique to improve image reconstruction quality by providing a shape prior for the reconstruction task. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid method that seeks to reconstruct high quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Jiulong Liu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Hui Ji , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in diagnosing and staging abdominal diseases due to its lack of non-ionizing radiation and prevalent availability. However, significant inter-operator variability and inconsistent image acquisition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Marco Esposito , Nassir Navab

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology capable of providing high chemical specificity, which is crucial for many applications such as detecting threats in luggage. This type of application requires both fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Wail Mustafa , Christian Kehl , Ulrik Lund Olsen , Søren Kimmer Schou Gregersen , David Malmgren-Hansen , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction plays a crucial role in industrial nondestructive testing and medical diagnosis. Sparse view CT reconstruction aims to reconstruct high-quality CT images while only using a small number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Wangduo Xie , Richard Schoonhoven , Tristan van Leeuwen , Matthew B. Blaschko

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe condition characterized by lung inflammation and respiratory failure, with a high mortality rate of approximately 40%. Traditional imaging methods, such as chest X-rays, provide only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Siyeop Yoon , Yujin Oh , Xiang Li , Yi Xin , Maurizio Cereda , Quanzheng Li

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of head Computed Tomography (CT) images elucidates the intricate spatial relationships of tissue structures, thereby assisting in accurate diagnosis. Nonetheless, securing an optimal head CT scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Bowen Zheng , Chenxi Huang , Yuemei Luo

The abundance of overlapping anatomical structures appearing in chest radiographs can reduce the performance of lung pathology detection by automated algorithms (CAD) as well as the human reader. In this paper, we present a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ophir Gozes , Hayit Greenspan

Content-based retrieval supports a radiologist decision making process by presenting the doctor the most similar cases from the database containing both historical diagnosis and further disease development history. We present a deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ilia Kravets , Tal Heletz , Hayit Greenspan

Computed tomography (CT) has become an essential part of modern science and medicine. A CT scanner consists of an X-ray source that is spun around an object of interest. On the opposite end of the X-ray source, a detector captures X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Thomas Germer , Jan Robine , Sebastian Konietzny , Stefan Harmeling , Tobias Uelwer

Unsupervised pathology detection can be implemented by training a model on healthy data only and measuring the deviation from the training set upon inference, for example with CNN-based feature extraction and one-class classifiers, or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Aissam Djahnine , Alexandre Popoff , Emilien Jupin-Delevaux , Vincent Cottin , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel