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Limited-Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) is a challenging inverse problem where missing angular projections lead to incomplete sinograms and severe artifacts in the reconstructed images. While recent learning-based methods have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Jiaqi Guo , Santiago López-Tapia

Limited Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) often faces significant challenges due to missing angular information. Unlike previous methods that operate in the image domain, we propose a new method that focuses on sinogram inpainting. We…

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Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) offers improved temporal resolution and reduced radiation dose for cardiac imaging, but suffers from severe artifacts due to truncated projections. To address the ill-posedness of LACT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yu Shi , Shuyi Fan , Changsheng Fang , Shuo Han , Haodong Li , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Dayang Wang , Hengyong Yu

Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) reconstruction is an inverse problem with severe ill-posedness arising from missing projection angles, and it is difficult to restore high-precision images without sufficient prior knowledge. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Hinako Isogai , Naruki Murahashi , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Megumi Nakao

Computed tomography is a widely used imaging modality with applications ranging from medical imaging to material analysis. One major challenge arises from the lack of scanning information at certain angles, resulting in distortion or…

Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Runyi Li

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generators has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish generated from real images. This erodes trust in digital media, making it critical to develop generated image detectors that remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ana Vasilcoiu , Ivona Najdenkoska , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Computed tomography (CT) is one of the modalities for effective lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The features extracted from CT images are now used to quantify spatial and temporal variations in tumors. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

Since 2016, deep learning (DL) has advanced tomographic imaging with remarkable successes, especially in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging. Despite being driven by big data, the LDCT denoising and pure end-to-end reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Wenjun Xia , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

The generalization of deep learning-based low-dose computed tomography (CT) reconstruction models to doses unseen in the training data is important and remains challenging. Previous efforts heavily rely on paired data to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Qi Gao , Zhihao Chen , Dong Zeng , Junping Zhang , Jianhua Ma , Hongming Shan

Non-contrast CT (NCCT) imaging may reduce image contrast and anatomical visibility, potentially increasing diagnostic uncertainty. In contrast, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) facilitates the observation of regions of interest (ROI). Leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Tingyi Lin , Pengju Lyu , Jie Zhang , Yuqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Jianjun Zhu

We argue that diffusion models' success in modeling complex distributions is, for the most part, coming from their input conditioning. This paper investigates the representation used to condition diffusion models from the perspective that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Samuel Lavoie , Michael Noukhovitch , Aaron Courville

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Medical imaging is nowadays a pillar in diagnostics and therapeutic follow-up. Current research tries to integrate established - but ionizing - tomographic techniques with technologies offering reduced radiation exposure. Diffuse Optical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Alessandro Benfenati , Paola Causin , Martina Quinteri

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) utilises near-infrared light for imaging spatially distributed optical parameters, typically the absorption and scattering coefficients. The image reconstruction problem of DOT is an ill-posed inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Meghdoot Mozumder , Andreas Hauptmann , Ilkka Nissilä , Simon R. Arridge , Tanja Tarvainen

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Score-based diffusion models are a recently developed framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems with a state-of-the-art performance for severely ill-posed problems by leveraging a powerful prior distribution learned from…

Low-dose CT (LDCT) protocols reduce radiation exposure but increase image noise, compromising diagnostic confidence. Diffusion-based generative models have shown promise for LDCT denoising by learning image priors and performing iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tomás de la Sotta , José M. Saavedra , Héctor Henríquez , Violeta Chang , Aline Xavier

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenging due to undersampling, leading to an ill-posed inverse problem. Traditional iterative methods incorporate handcrafted or learned priors to regularize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Leon Suarez-Rodriguez , Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdron-Hurtado , Ana Mantilla-Dulcey , Henry Arguello

Generative diffusion models have received increasing attention in medical imaging, particularly in limited-angle computed tomography (LACT). Standard diffusion models achieve high-quality image reconstruction but require a large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Yi Liu , Yiyang Wen , Zekun Zhou , Junqi Ma , Linghang Wang , Yucheng Yao , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu
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