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Purpose: Neural network image reconstruction directly from measurement data is a relatively new field of research, that until now has been limited to producing small single-slice images (e.g., 1x128x128). This paper proposes a novel and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 William Whiteley , Wing K. Luk , Jens Gregor

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for clinical diagnosis. As PET suffers from low resolution and high noise, numerous efforts try to incorporate anatomical priors into PET image reconstruction, especially with the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Nuobei Xie , Kuang Gong , Ning Guo , Zhixin Qin , Zhifang Wu , Huafeng Liu , Quanzheng Li

In this paper, we explore a novel method for tomographic image reconstruction in the field of SPECT imaging. Deep Learning methodologies and more specifically deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are employed in the new reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Charalambos Chrysostomou , Loizos Koutsantonis , Christos Lemesios , Costas N. Papanicolas

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yeqi Fang , Rong Zhou

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

We propose a hybrid reconstruction framework for dual-spectral CT (DSCT) that integrates iterative methods with deep learning models. The reconstruction process consists of two complementary components: a knowledge-driven module and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ze Yuan , Wenbin Li , Shusen Zhao

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data. It is proven that classical data augmentation methods are useful but still limited due to the huge variation in images. Using generative adversarial networks (GAN) is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Amine Amyar , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Pierre Decazes , Romain Modzelewski

In this paper, the Primal-Dual UNet for sparse view CT reconstruction is modified to be applicable to cone beam projections and perform reconstructions of entire volumes instead of slices. Experiments show that the PSNR of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Philipp Ernst , Soumick Chatterjee , Georg Rose , Andreas Nürnberger

As a sensitive functional imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) plays a critical role in early disease diagnosis. However, obtaining a high-quality PET image requires injecting a sufficient dose (standard dose) of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Caiwen Jiang , Mianxin Liu , Kaicong Sun , Dinggang Shen

Spectral image reconstruction is an important task in snapshot compressed imaging. This paper aims to propose a new end-to-end framework with iterative capabilities similar to a deep unfolding network to improve reconstruction accuracy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zeyu Cai , Jian Yu , Ziyu Zhang , Chengqian Jin , Feipeng Da

Multiview stereo aims to reconstruct scene depth from images acquired by a camera under arbitrary motion. Recent methods address this problem through deep learning, which can utilize semantic cues to deal with challenges such as textureless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Sunghoon Im , Hae-Gon Jeon , Stephen Lin , In So Kweon

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

We propose a system that uses a convolution neural network (CNN) to estimate depth from a stereo pair followed by volumetric fusion of the predicted depth maps to produce a 3D reconstruction of a scene. Our proposed depth refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Rohan Chabra , Julian Straub , Chris Sweeney , Richard Newcombe , Henry Fuchs

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Patient motion during PET is inevitable. Its long acquisition time not only increases the motion and the associated artifacts but also the patient's discomfort, thus PET acceleration is desirable. However, accelerating PET acquisition will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Jiazhen Zhang , Xueqi Guo , Huidong Xie , Xiongchao Chen , Tianshun Miao , Yihuan Lu , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Dynamic medical imaging is usually limited in application due to the large radiation doses and longer image scanning and reconstruction times. Existing methods attempt to reduce the dynamic sequence by interpolating the volumes between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yuyu Guo , Lei Bi , Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng , Qian Wang , Jinman Kim

Simultaneous modeling of the spatio-temporal variation patterns of brain functional network from 4D fMRI data has been an important yet challenging problem for the field of cognitive neuroscience and medical image analysis. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yu Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Zhang , Shijie Zhao , Milad Makkie , Mo Zhang , Quanzheng Li , Tianming Liu

To acquire high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images while reducing the radiation tracer dose, numerous efforts have been devoted to reconstructing standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET). However, the success…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Jiaqi Cui , Pinxian Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the visibility of images captured by visual sensors in dim environments by addressing their inherent signal degradations, such as luminance attenuation and structural corruption. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yicui Shi , Yuhan Chen , Xiangfei Huang , Zhenguo Wang , Wenxuan Yu , Ying Fang

Performing a real-time and accurate instrument segmentation from videos is of great significance for improving the performance of robotic-assisted surgery. We identify two important clues for surgical instrument perception, including local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jiacheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Liansheng Wang , Shuntian Cai , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jing Qin