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Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

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We consider reconstructing multi-channel images from measurements performed by photon-counting and energy-discriminating detectors in the setting of multi-spectral X-ray computed tomography (CT). Our aim is to exploit the strong structural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Lukas Kiefer , Stefania Petra , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann

Scatter due to interaction of photons with the imaged object is a fundamental problem in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). It manifests as various artifacts in the reconstruction, making its abatement or correction critical for image quality.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Berk Iskender , Yoram Bresler

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…

Objective. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has the potential to improve contrast, reduce artifacts and the ability to perform material decomposition in advanced imaging applications. The increased number or measurements results with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Alessandro Perelli , Suxer Alfonso Garcia , Alexandre Bousse , Jean-Pierre Tasu , Nikolaos Efthimiadis , Dimitris Visvikis

In computed tomography (CT), the projection geometry used for data acquisition needs to be known precisely to obtain a clear reconstructed image. Rigid patient motion is a cause for misalignment between measured data and employed geometry.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Mareike Thies , Fabian Wagner , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Christopher Syben , Andreas Maier

Multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) is a high-resolution functional imaging modality that can non-invasively access a broad range of pathophysiological phenomena by quantifying the contrast of endogenous chromophores in tissue.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Christoph Dehner , Guillaume Zahnd , Vasilis Ntziachristos , Dominik Jüstel

Stochastic multi-objective optimization (SMOO) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for addressing machine learning problems with multiple objectives. The bias introduced by the nonlinearity of the subproblem solution mapping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Linxi Yang , Liping Tang , Jiahao Lv , Yuehong He , Xinmin Yang

In clinical CT system, the x-ray tube emits polychromatic x-rays, and the x-ray detectors operate in the current-integrating mode. This physical process is accurately described by an energy-dependent non-linear integral equation. However,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Wenxiang Cong , Bruno De Man , Ge Wang

Omnidirectional stereo matching (OSM) is an essential and reliable means for $360^{\circ}$ depth sensing. However, following earlier works on conventional stereo matching, prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods rely on a 3D encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Hualie Jiang , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan , Wenjie Jiang

Computed tomography (CT) relies on precise patient immobilization during image acquisition. Nevertheless, motion artifacts in the reconstructed images can persist. Motion compensation methods aim to correct such artifacts post-acquisition,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Mareike Thies , Fabian Wagner , Noah Maul , Siyuan Mei , Mingxuan Gu , Laura Pfaff , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Haijun Yu , Andreas Maier

Beam hardening (BH) is one of the major artifacts that severely reduces the quality of Computed Tomography (CT) imaging. In a polychromatic X-ray beam, since low-energy photons are more preferentially absorbed, the attenuation of the beam…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Ammar Alsaffar , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

The majority of classic tensor CP decomposition models are designed for squared loss, employing Euclidean distance as a local proximal term. However, the Euclidean distance is unsuitable for the generalized loss function applicable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Zehui Liu , Qingsong Wang , Chunfeng Cui , Yong Xia

This paper reports on a novel template-free monocular non-rigid surface reconstruction approach. Existing techniques using motion and deformation cues rely on multiple prior assumptions, are often computationally expensive and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Mohammad Dawud Ansari , Vladislav Golyanik , Didier Stricker

We demonstrate computerized tomography (CT) reconstructions from absorption, phase and dark-field signals obtained from scans acquired when the x-ray probe light is modulated with speckle. Two different interlaced schemes are proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

Mathematical methods of step-by-step and combined shifts are proposed for experimental data processing to reconstruct the measuring system impulse response distorted by shift-invariant blur. Proposed methods base on direct non-blind…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

In medical SPECT imaging, we seek to simultaneously obtain the internal radioactive sources and the attenuation map using not only ballistic measurements but also first order scattering measurements. The problem is modeled using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Matias Courdurier , Francois Monard , Axel Osses , Francisco Romero

Optical diffraction tomography relies on solving an inverse scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Classical reconstruction algorithms are based on linear approximations of the forward model (Born or Rytov), which limits their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Emmanuel Soubies , Thanh-An Pham , Michael Unser

Efficient and fast reconstruction of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in clinical practice. Minimizing retrieval and processing times not only potentially enhances swift response and decision-making in critical scenarios but also…

We present a spectrogram separation method tailored for mixtures comprising two nonstationary components. By exploiting the unique characteristics of their time-frequency representations, we propose an inverse problem formulation to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Adrien Meynard , Ama Marina Kreme