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MRI and CT are most widely used medical imaging modalities. It is often necessary to acquire multi-modality images for diagnosis and treatment such as radiotherapy planning. However, multi-modality imaging is not only costly but also…

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Pencil x-ray beam imaging provides superior spatial resolution than other imaging geometries like sheet beam and cone beam geometries due to the illumination of a line instead of an area or volume. However, the pencil beam geometry suffers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Ignacio O. Romero , Changqing Li

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

Contrast agents in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging allow to localize tumors and observe their contrast kinetics, which is essential for cancer characterization and respective treatment decision-making. However, contrast…

In this work, we compare one-step and two-step approaches for X-ray computed tomography (CT) scatter correction and density reconstruction. X-ray CT is an important imaging technique in medical and industrial applications. In many cases,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Alexander N. Sietsema , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Diffraction gratings with large angular dispersion rates are central to obtaining high spectral resolution in grating spectrometers operating over a broad spectral range from infrared to soft-x-ray domains. The greatest challenge is of…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuri Shvyd'ko

Purpose: Identifying intravenous (IV) contrast use within CT scans is a key component of data curation for model development and testing. Currently, IV contrast is poorly documented in imaging metadata and necessitates manual correction and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Zezhong Ye , Jack M. Qian , Ahmed Hosny , Roman Zeleznik , Deborah Plana , Jirapat Likitlersuang , Zhongyi Zhang , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts , Benjamin H. Kann

We present a benchmark pilot study in which high-resolution Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FF-OCT) is used to image human breast tissue and is evaluated to assess its ability to aid the pathologist's management of intra-operative…

Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) imaging, especially with dual-robot systems, have introduced new challenges for scan trajectory optimization. This paper presents a novel approach using Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) to optimize CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yuedong Yuan , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Andreas Maier

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potent diagnostic tool, but suffers from long examination times. To accelerate the process, modern MRI machines typically utilize multiple coils that acquire sub-sampled data in parallel. Data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Moritz Erlacher , Martin Zach

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Margie P. Olbinado , David M. Paganin , Yin Cheng , Alexander Rack

Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) is important for diagnosis and treatment planning for various medical conditions. Deep learning (DL) based segmentation models may enable automated medical image analysis for detecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Eirik A. Østmo , Kristoffer K. Wickstrøm , Keyur Radiya , Michael C. Kampffmeyer , Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Robert Jenssen

The mathematical foundation of X-ray CT is based on the assumption that by measuring the attenuation of X-rays passing through an object, one can recover the integrals of the attenuation coefficient $\mu(x)$ along a sufficiently rich family…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Alexander Katsevich

Chest radiography is the most common medical image examination for screening and diagnosis in hospitals. Automatic interpretation of chest X-rays at the level of an entry-level radiologist can greatly benefit work prioritization and assist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Sandesh Ghimire , Satyananda Kashyap , Joy T. Wu , Alexandros Karargyris , Mehdi Moradi

Hard x-ray imaging is indispensable across diverse fields owing to its high penetrability. However, the resolution of traditional x-ray imaging modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) systems, is constrained by factors including beam…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 O. Sefi , A. Ben Yehuda , Y. Klein , S. Bloch , H. Schwartz , E. Cohen , S. Shwartz

We report on a new x-ray imaging method, which combines the high spatial resolution of coherent diffraction imaging with the ability of dark field microscopy to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. An x-ray objective serves to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Anders Filsøe Pedersen , Virginie Chamard , Carsten Detlefs , Tao Zhou , Dina Carbone , Henning Friis Poulsen

Generative adversarial networks have been successfully applied to inpainting in natural images. However, the current state-of-the-art models have not yet been widely adopted in the medical imaging domain. In this paper, we investigate the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ecem Sogancioglu , Shi Hu , Davide Belli , Bram van Ginneken

The emergence of Vision Transformers (ViTs) has revolutionized computer vision, yet their effectiveness compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in medical imaging remains under-explored. This study presents a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Kunal Kawadkar

X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) provides higher sensitivity to contrast between low absorbing objects that can be invisible to conventional attenuation-based X-ray imaging. XPCI's main application has been so far focused on medical…

Diffraction tomography is a widely used inverse scattering technique for quantitative imaging of weakly scattering media. In its conventional formulation, diffraction tomography assumes monochromatic plane wave illumination. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer