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Independently from electron beam based procedures, photon beam based diagnostics is an alternative way for alignment and commissioning of the numerous undulator cells in a high-gain short-wavelength free-electron laser (FEL). In this paper,…

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Significant improvements to the production rate of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are essential to their cost-effectiveness and competitiveness with traditional processing routes. Moreover, much faster AM processes, in combination…

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Background: Radiotherapy treatment planning involves solving large-scale optimization problems that are often approximated and solved sub-optimally due to time constraints. Central to these problems is the dose influence matrix which…

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Several applications of medical ultrasound can benefit from a larger field of view (FOV). This study is aimed at increasing the FOV of linear array probes by increasing the element width. Coupled elements were used to imitate a larger…

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Language promptable X-ray image segmentation would enable greater flexibility for human-in-the-loop workflows in diagnostic and interventional precision medicine. Prior efforts have contributed task-specific models capable of solving…

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The recovery of high-quality images from images corrupted by lens flare presents a significant challenge in low-level vision. Contemporary deep learning methods frequently entail training a lens flare removing model from scratch. However,…

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Current challenges in developing foundational models for volumetric imaging data, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), stem from the computational complexity of training state-of-the-art architectures in high dimensions and curating…

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In this first paper of a two-paper series, we present a method for optimizing the dynamic delivery of fluence maps in radiation therapy. For a given fluence map and a given delivery time, the optimization of the leaf trajectories of a…

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Uncompressed clinical data from modern positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are very large, exceeding 350 million data points (projection bins). The last decades have seen tremendous advancements in mathematical imaging tools many of…

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Foundation Models (FMs) have revolutionized machine learning with their adaptability and high performance across tasks; yet, their integration into Federated Learning (FL) is challenging due to substantial communication overhead from their…

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Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a leading approach for high-fidelity visual generation, offering a robust continuous-time alternative to ordinary differential equation (ODE) based models. However, despite their success, FM models…

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