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Super-resolution ultrasound imaging has been so far achieved in 3-D by mechanically scanning a volume with a linear probe, by co-aligning multiple linear probes, by using multiplexed 3-D clinical ultrasound systems, or by using 3-D…

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are problematic in clinical medicine because of their low contrast and high artifact content compared with conventional CT images. Although there are some studies to improve image quality, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Naruki Murahashi , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Megumi Nakao

Super Resolution (SR) plays a critical role in computer vision, particularly in medical imaging, where hardware and acquisition time constraints often result in low spatial and temporal resolution. While diffusion models have been applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Vishal Dubey

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used to obtain quantitative elemental composition of imaged subjects for personalized and precise medical diagnosis. Compared with DECT leveraging advanced X-ray source and/or detector…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Qiaoxin Li , Ruifeng Chen , Peng Wang , Guotao Quan , Yanfeng Du , Dong Liang , Yinsheng Li

Single-pixel imaging, with the advantages of a wide spectrum, beyond-visual-field imaging, and robustness to light scattering, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Fourier single-pixel imaging (FSI) can reconstruct sharp…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Dong Zhou , Jie Cao , Huan Cui , Qun Hao , Bing-Kun Chen , Kai Lin

CT scanners that are commonly-used in hospitals nowadays produce low-resolution images, up to 512 pixels in size. One pixel in the image corresponds to a one millimeter piece of tissue. In order to accurately segment tumors and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicolae Verga

Ultrasound super-localization microscopy techniques presented in the last few years enable non-invasive imaging of vascular structures at the capillary level by tracking the flow of ultrasound contrast agents (gas microbubbles). However,…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-10 Avinoam Bar-Zion , Charles Tremblay-Darveau , Oren Solomon , Dan Adam , Yonina C. Eldar

Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been increasingly used in imaging applications because of its capability for material differentiation. However, material decomposition suffers from magnified noise from two CT images of independent scans, leading…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Wenkun Zhang , Hanming Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Xiaohui Wang , Ailong Cai , Lei Li , Tianye Niu , Bin Yan

Cone Beam Computed Tomography(CBCT) is a now known method to conduct CT imaging. Especially, The Low Dose CT imaging is one of possible options to protect organs of patients when conducting CT imaging. Therefore Low Dose CT imaging can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Wooram Kang , Mayank Patwari

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables material-specific imaging through acquisitions at two different X-ray energy spectra. Material decomposition from DECT data is an ill-posed inverse problem that is highly sensitive to noise…

Sparse-view Cone-Beam Computed Tomography reconstruction from limited X-ray projections remains a challenging problem in medical imaging due to the inherent undersampling of fine-grained anatomical details, which correspond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Cuong Tran Van , Trong-Thang Pham , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Duy Minh Ho Nguyen , Ngan Le

This paper presents deep unfolding neural networks to handle inverse problems in photothermal radiometry enabling super resolution (SR) imaging. Photothermal imaging is a well-known technique in active thermography for nondestructive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Samim Ahmadi , Linh Kästner , Jan Christian Hauffen , Peter Jung , Mathias Ziegler

Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) has become of particular interest in clinic recent years. The DECT scan comprises two images, corresponding to two photon attenuation coefficients maps of the objects. Meanwhile, the DECT images are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Sui Li , Yongbo Wang , Yuting Liao , Ji He , Dong Zeng , Zhaoying Bian , Jianhua Ma

Since the number of incident energies is limited, it is difficult to directly acquire hyperspectral images (HSI) with high spatial resolution. Considering the high dimensionality and correlation of HSI, super-resolution (SR) of HSI remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tingting Liu , Yuan Liu , Chuncheng Zhang , Yuan Liyin , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Inspired by the success of deep learning applications on restoration of low-dose and sparse CT images, we propose a novel method to reconstruct high-quality 4D cone-beam CT (4DCBCT) images from sparse datasets. Our approach combines the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Joel Beaudry , Pedro L. Esquinas

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used for diagnosis and image-guided therapeutics. Due to hardware, physical and physiological limitations, acquisition of high-resolution MRI data takes long scan time at high system cost, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Qing Lyu , Chenyu You , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

Positron emission tomography (PET) suffers from severe resolution limitations which limit its quantitative accuracy. In this paper, we present a super-resolution (SR) imaging technique for PET based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Tzu-An Song , Samadrita Roy Chowdhury , Fan Yang , Joyita Dutta

Deep learning-based dMRI super-resolution methods can effectively enhance image resolution by leveraging the learning capabilities of neural networks on large datasets. However, these methods tend to learn a fixed scale mapping between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Ruoyou Wu , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Juan Zou , Jing Yang , Wenxin Fan , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

There is a need for information retrieval from large collections of low-resolution (LR) binary document images, which can be found in digital libraries across the world, where the high-resolution (HR) counterpart is not available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Ram Krishna Pandey , K Vignesh , A G Ramakrishnan , Chandrahasa B