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We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

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Generative modeling has drawn much attention in creative and scientific data generation tasks. Score-based Diffusion Models, a type of generative model that iteratively learns to denoise data, have shown state-of-the-art results on tasks…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to positively impact and advance medical imaging, including positron emission tomography (PET) imaging applications. AI has the ability to enhance and optimize all aspects of the PET…

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Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods for X-ray CT produce high-quality and accurate images, while greatly reducing patient exposure to radiation. When further reducing X-ray dose to an ultra-low level by lowering the tube current,…

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Objective: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has been a commonly used imaging modality in broad clinical applications. One of the most important tradeoffs in PET imaging is between image quality and radiation dose: high image quality comes…

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Deep generative models are rapidly gaining traction in medical imaging. Nonetheless, most generative architectures struggle to capture the underlying probability distributions of volumetric data, exhibit convergence problems, and offer no…

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Long scan time significantly hinders the widespread applications of three-dimensional multi-contrast cardiac magnetic resonance (3D-MC-CMR) imaging. This study aims to accelerate 3D-MC-CMR acquisition by a novel method based on score-based…

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While Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has been widely used in diagnosis of number of diseases, it has costly acquisition process which involves radiation exposure to patients. However, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safer…

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We propose an end-to-end differentiable architecture for tomography reconstruction that directly maps a noisy sinogram into a denoised reconstruction. Compared to existing approaches our end-to-end architecture produces more accurate…

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Recent advances in score-based generative models have led to a huge spike in the development of downstream applications using generative models ranging from data augmentation over image and video generation to anomaly detection. Despite…

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Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has emerged as a major imaging modality for the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. High temporal resolution is essential to ensure diagnostic accuracy. Limited-angle data acquisition can…

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Using recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models, this paper introduces a new synergistic method for spectral computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Diffusion models define a neural network to…

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