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Purpose: The purpose of the work was experimental investigations of the breast dose distributions with adaptive filtration. Adaptive filtration reduces detector dynamic range and improves image quality. The adaptive filter with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Polad M. Shikhaliev

This paper deals with tomographic image reconstruction under the situation where some of projection data bins are contaminated with abnormal data. Such situations occur in various instances of tomography. We propose a new reconstruction…

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Low performance pixels (LPP) in Computed Tomography (CT) detectors would lead to ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them clinically unusable. In recent years, several solutions have been proposed to correct LPP…

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Background: X-ray dark-field radiography uses small-angle scattering to visualize the structural integrity of lung alveoli. To study the influence of dose reduction on clinical dark-field radiographs, one can simulate low-dose images by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Henriette Bast , Rafael C. Schick , Thomas Koehler , Franz Pfeiffer

Photon counting detection is a promising approach toward effectively reducing the radiation dose in x-ray computed tomography (CT). Full CT reconstruction from a fraction of the detected photons required by scintillation-based detectors has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Zheyuan Zhu , Hsin-Hsiung Huang , Shuo Pang

Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods have shown potential to substantially improve the image quality of low-dose X-ray computed tomography (CT) as compared to the conventional filtered back-projection (FBP) method for various…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Hao Zhang , Jing Wang , Jianhua Ma , Hongbing Lu , Zhengrong Liang

Noise removal from images is a part of image restoration in which we try to reconstruct or recover an image that has been degraded by using apriori knowledge of the degradation phenomenon. Noises present in images can be of various types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Ultrafast electron beam X-ray computed tomography produces noisy data due to short measurement times, causing reconstruction artifacts and limiting overall image quality. To counteract these issues, two self-supervised deep learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Israt Jahan Tulin , Sebastian Starke , Dominic Windisch , André Bieberle , Peter Steinbach

Modern radio interferometers enable observations of spectral lines with unprecedented spatial resolution and sensitivity. In spite of these technical advances, many lines of interest are still at best weakly detected and therefore…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Ryan A. Loomis , Karin I. Öberg , Sean M. Andrews , Catherine Walsh , Ian Czekala , Jane Huang , Katherine Rosenfeld

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

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Synchrotron-based x-ray tomography is a noninvasive imaging technique that allows for reconstructing the internal structure of materials at high spatial resolutions from tens of micrometers to a few nanometers. In order to resolve sample…

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Adaptive algorithms belong to an important class of algorithms used in radar target detection to overcome prior uncertainty of interference covariance. The contamination of the empirical covariance matrix by the useful signal leads to…

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The single sideband (SSB) framework of analytical electron ptychography can account for the presence of residual geometrical aberrations induced by the probe-forming lens. However, the accuracy of this aberration correction method is highly…

Spectrum sensing is essential in cognitive radio to enable dynamic spectrum access. In many scenarios, primary user signal must be detected reliably in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime under required sensing time. We propose to use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-04 Kun Zheng , Husheng Li , Seddik M. Djouadi , Jun Wang

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 María Elena Buemi , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

Schemes for X-ray imaging single protein molecules using new x-ray sources, like x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), require processing many frames of data that are obtained by taking temporally short snapshots of identical molecules, each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-17 Kartik Ayyer , Hugh T. Philipp , Mark W. Tate , Veit Elser , Sol M. Gruner

Distributed signal processing has attracted widespread attention in the scientific community due to its several advantages over centralized approaches. Recently, graph signal processing has risen to prominence, and adaptive distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Daniel G. Tiglea , Renato Candido , Magno T. M. Silva

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in the medical, industrial, and other fields to nondestructively generate three-dimensional structural images of objects. However, CT images are often affected by various artifacts, with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yang Zou , Meili Qi , Jianhua Zhang , Difei Zhang , Shuwei Wang , Jiale Zhang , Shengkun Yao , Huaidong Jiang

Matched filters are widely used to localise signal patterns due to their high efficiency and interpretability. However, their effectiveness deteriorates for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals, such as those recorded on edge devices,…

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