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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkable performance in positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction. In particular, CNN-based direct PET image reconstruction, which directly generates the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote

We introduce DIP, a novel unsupervised post-training method designed to enhance dense image representations in large-scale pretrained vision encoders for in-context scene understanding. Unlike prior approaches that rely on complex…

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Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

Supervised learning with a convolutional neural network is recognized as a powerful means of image restoration. However, most such methods have been designed for application to grayscale and/or color images; therefore, they have limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ryuji Imamura , Tatsuki Itasaka , Masahiro Okuda

Objective Positron emission tomography (PET) allows imaging of patho-physiological information as a form of rate constants from a dynamic image. The rate constant image(s) may be affected from noise on the dynamic image. We introduced an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Nobuyuki Kudomi , Yukito Maeda

Deep image prior (DIP) proposed in recent research has revealed the inherent trait of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for capturing substantial low-level image statistics priors. This framework efficiently addresses the inverse problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ziyu Shu , Zhixin Pan

Direct reconstruction methods have been developed to estimate parametric images directly from the measured PET sinograms by combining the PET imaging model and tracer kinetics in an integrated framework. Due to limited counts received,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Kuang Gong , Ciprian Catana , Jinyi Qi , Quanzheng Li

Conventional deconvolution methods utilize hand-crafted image priors to constrain the optimization. While deep-learning-based methods have simplified the optimization by end-to-end training, they fail to generalize well to blurs unseen in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Dong Huo , Abbas Masoumzadeh , Rafsanjany Kushol , Yee-Hong Yang

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is a vital tool in medical diagnostics, offering detailed insights into molecular processes within the human body. However, PET images often suffer from complicated noise, which can obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuehua Ye , Hongxu Yang , Adam J. Schwarz

List-mode positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is an important tool for PET scanners with many lines-of-response and additional information such as time-of-flight and depth-of-interaction. Deep learning is one possible…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kibo Ote , Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Takashi Isobe , Yasuomi Ouchi

Large high-quality medical image datasets are difficult to acquire but necessary for many deep learning applications. For positron emission tomography (PET), reconstructed image quality is limited by inherent Poisson noise. We propose a…

Single image inverse problem is a notoriously challenging ill-posed problem that aims to restore the original image from one of its corrupted versions. Recently, this field has been immensely influenced by the emergence of deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qianwei Zhou , Chen Zhou , Haigen Hu , Yuhang Chen , Shengyong Chen , Xiaoxin Li

Ionizing radiation has been the biggest concern in CT imaging. To reduce the dose level without compromising the image quality, low-dose CT reconstruction has been offered with the availability of compressed sensing based reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Deep learning based PET image reconstruction methods have achieved promising results recently. However, most of these methods follow a supervised learning paradigm, which rely heavily on the availability of high-quality training labels. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Rui Hu , Yunmei Chen , Kyungsang Kim , Marcio Aloisio Bezerra Cavalcanti Rockenbach , Quanzheng Li , Huafeng Liu

Image deconvolution is the process of recovering convolutional degraded images, which is always a hard inverse problem because of its mathematically ill-posed property. On the success of the recently proposed deep image prior (DIP), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhunxuan Wang , Zipei Wang , Qiqi Li , Hakan Bilen

Deep learning has been widely used for solving image reconstruction tasks but its deployability has been held back due to the shortage of high-quality training data. Unsupervised learning methods, such as the deep image prior (DIP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Riccardo Barbano , Javier Antorán , Johannes Leuschner , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Bangti Jin , Željko Kereta

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Although sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has significantly reduced radiation dose, it also introduces severe artifacts which degrade the image quality. In recent years, deep learning-based methods for inverse problems have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Shuo Xu , Yucheng Zhang , Gang Chen , Xincheng Xiang , Peng Cong , Yuewen Sun

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Deep learning algorithms that rely on extensive training data are revolutionizing image recovery from ill-posed measurements. Training data is scarce in many imaging applications, including ultra-high-resolution imaging. The deep image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Maneesh John , Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Qing Zou , Mathews Jacob