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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Wenjun Xia , Yongyi Shi , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) holds significant importance in clinical diagnosis and neuroscience research. However, conventional model-based fitting methods often suffer from sensitivity to noise, leading to decreased accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jialong Li , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Qiqi Lu , Ye Wu , Xiaoming Liu , QianJin Feng , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Ptychography has become prominent at synchrotron facilities worldwide for characterizing biological and material specimens' topological structures and properties at the nanometer or atomic scale, due to its lens - less, highly quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Tao Liu , Bingyang Wang , JiangTao Zhao , Maik Kahnt , Fucai Zhang

We report a novel lensless on-chip microscopy platform based on near-field blind ptychographic modulation. In this platform, we place a thin diffuser in between the object and the image sensor for light wave modulation. By blindly scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Shaowei Jiang , Jiakai Zhu , Pengming Song , Chengfei Guo , Zichao Bian , Ruihai Wang , Yikun Huang , Shiyao Wang , He Zhang , Guoan Zheng

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a standard imager in optical region in which the image quality is limited by its pixel size. CCDs also function in X-ray region but with substantial differences in performance. An optical photon generates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Miyata , M. Miki , H. Tsunemi , J. Hiraga , H. Kouno , K. Miyaguchi

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful non-invasive tool which is widely used in clinical routine. Mostly, apparent diffusion coefficient maps are acquired, which cannot be directly related to cellular structure. More recently it…

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

Diffusion-based image compression has recently shown outstanding perceptual fidelity, yet its practicality is hindered by prohibitive sampling overhead and high memory usage. Most existing diffusion codecs employ U-Net architectures, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Junqi Shi , Ming Lu , Xingchen Li , Anle Ke , Ruiqi Zhang , Zhan Ma

Due to the confined focal length of optical sensors, focusing all objects in a scene with a single sensor is a difficult task. To handle such a situation, image fusion methods are used in multi-focus environment. Discrete Cosine Transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ashutosh Mishra , Sudipta Mahapatra , Swapna Banerjee

Deployment of machine learning algorithms into real-world practice is still a difficult task. One of the challenges lies in the unpredictable variability of input data, which may differ significantly among individual users, institutions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Roman Stoklasa

Dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) MRI or perfusion-MRI plays an important role in the non-invasive assessment of tumor vascularity. However, the large number of images provided by the method makes display and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Friso Hoefnagels , Keith S Cover , Ester Sanchez , Frank J. Lagerwaard

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional technique that combines information from two correlated patterned light fields to compute an image of the object of interest. GI can be performed with visible light as well as penetrating radiation…

Optical microscopy has been employed to derive salient characteristics of an object in various fields, including cell biology, flow cytometry, biopsy, and neuroscience. In particular, measuring the phase of light scattered from an object…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jeonghun Oh , Herve Hugonnet , Weisun Park , YongKeun Park

This work proposes an innovative approach to improve Bragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI) microscopy applied to time evolving crystals and/or non-homogeneous crystalline strain fields, identified as two major limitations of BCDI…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 I. Calvo-Almazán , V. Chamard , T. Grünewald , M. Allain

In coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) experiments, the intensity of the scattered wave impinging on an object is measured on an array of detectors. This signal can be interpreted as the square of the modulus of the Fourier transform of the…

Bragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI) fails to reliably retrieve phases in micro-crystals exhibiting strong strain inhomogeneities, which restricts its applicability. Here we show that three-dimensional Bragg ptychography (3DBP)…

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

This paper presents a Multispectral imaging (MSI) approach that combines the use of a diffractive optical element, and a deep learning algorithm for spectral reconstruction. Traditional MSI techniques often face challenges such as high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Khen Cohen , Tuval Kay

Coherent photonic computing uses both the phase and amplitude of light to implement linear operations such as dot products and matrix multiplication but requires phase stability between the interfering paths. This poses a challenge for such…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Shenghan Gao , Kathy Lüdge , Francesco Da Ros , Nathan Youngblood

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