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We develop and evaluate MlPET, a fast localized machine learning approach for probabilistic PET image analysis addressing the noise-resolution trade-off in conventional reconstructions. MlPET replaces computationally demanding Markov chain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Thomas Mejer Hansen , Nana Christensen , Mikkel Vendelbo

The goal of data selection is to capture the most structural information from a set of data. This paper presents a fast and accurate data selection method, in which the selected samples are optimized to span the subspace of all data. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Mohsen Joneidi , Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

Positron emission tomography (PET) enables quantification of dynamic physiological processes through time-resolved imaging. In Rb-82 myocardial perfusion PET, kinetic compartment modeling is used to estimate physiological parameters and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Myungheon Chin , Sarah J Zou , Garry Chinn , Craig S. Levin

Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PET-MRI) systems can obtain functional and anatomical scans. PET suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, the k-space data acquisition process in MRI is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Taofeng Xie , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Chen Luo , Huayu Wang , Congcong Liu , Yuanzhi Zhang , Xuemei Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Guoqing Chen , Dong Liang , Qiyu Jin , Yihang Zhou , Haifeng Wang

The escalating global cancer burden underscores the critical need for precise diagnostic tools in oncology. This research employs deep learning to enhance lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging, utilizing a dataset of 900 whole-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jiayi Liu , Qiaoyi Xue , Youdan Feng , Tianming Xu , Kaixin Shen , Chuyun Shen , Yuhang Shi

To accurately quantify in vivo radiotracer uptake using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a challenging task due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and poor spatial resolution of PET camera along with the finite image sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Mahbubunnabi Tamal

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) systems are becoming popular because they present several advantages over competing systems. However, EIT leads to images with very low resolution. Moreover, the nonuniform sampling characteristic of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Ricardo A. Borsoi , Julio C. C. Aya , Guilherme H. Costa , José C. M. Bermudez

Electron microscopy has shown to be a very powerful tool to map the chemical nature of samples at various scales down to atomic resolution. However, many samples can not be analyzed with an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio because of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-28 Étienne Monier , Thomas Oberlin , Nathalie Brun , Marcel Tencé , Marta de Frutos , Nicolas Dobigeon

Reliable attenuation and scatter compensation (ASC) is a prerequisite for quantification and beneficial for visual interpretation tasks in SPECT. In this paper, we develop a reconstruction method that uses the entire SPECT emission data,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Md Ashequr Rahman , Richard Laforest , Abhinav K. Jha

Motivation: Serial section microscopy is an established method for detailed anatomy reconstruction of biological specimen. During the last decade, high resolution electron microscopy (EM) of serial sections has become the de-facto standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Philipp Hanslovsky , John A. Bogovic , Stephan Saalfeld

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an advanced medical imaging technique that plays a crucial role in non-invasive clinical diagnosis. However, while reducing radiation exposure through low-dose PET scans is beneficial for patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Bin Huang , Xubiao Liu , Lei Fang , Qiegen Liu , Bingxuan Li

The reconstruction of images from a small number of projections using the maximum-entropy method (MEM) with the Shannon entropy is considered. MEM provides higher-quality image reconstruction for sources with extended components than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anisa T. Bajkova

Building large-scale foundation model for PET imaging is hindered by limited access to labeled data and insufficient computational resources. To overcome data scarcity and efficiency limitations, we propose ALL-PET, a low-resource, low-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Bin Huang , Kang Chen , Bingxuan Li , Huafeng Liu , Qiegen Liu

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) /Computed Tomography (CT) is crucial for diagnosing, managing, and planning treatment for various cancers. Developing reliable deep learning models for the segmentation of tumor lesions in PET/CT scans in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Tanya Chutani , Saikiran Bonthu , Pranab Samanta , Nitin Singhal

A standard dose of radioactive tracer must be delivered into the patients body to obtain high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images for diagnostic purposes, which raises the risk of radiation harm. A reduced tracer dose, on the…

Objective. This study investigates the best achievable performance of a brain-dedicated PET system with high resolution and sensitivity by evaluating different detector configurations, while maintaining a practical system design suitable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yuemeng Feng , Lisa Blackberg , Arkadiusz Sitek , Hamid Sabet

We demonstrate a multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging that integrates down-sampling with super-resolution image reconstruction via a compressive sensing framework. A custom condenser aperture with six randomly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-19 Akira Yasuhara , Takumi Sannomiya , Ryoichi Horisaki

In positron emission tomography (PET), time-of-flight (TOF) information localizes source positions along lines of response. Cherenkov-radiator-integrated microchannel-plate photomultiplier tubes have achieved 30 ps TOF resolution,…

This work aims at applying the theory of the component-based normalization for the Jagiellonian PET scanner, currently under development at the Jagiellonian University. In any Positron Emission Tomography acquisition, efficiency along a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Aurélien Coussat , Wojciech Krzemien , Jakub Baran , Szymon Parzych

Low-count positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a challenging inverse problem due to severe degradations arising from Poisson noise, photon scarcity, and attenuation correction errors. Existing deep learning methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zheng Zhang , Hao Tang , Yingying Hu , Zhanli Hu , Jing Qin