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Potential radioactive hazards in full-dose positron emission tomography (PET) imaging remain a concern, whereas the quality of low-dose images is never desirable for clinical use. So it is of great interest to translate low-dose PET images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Yang Zhou , Zhiwen Yang , Hui Zhang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Deep learning is a popular and powerful tool in computed tomography (CT) image processing such as organ segmentation, but its requirement of large training datasets remains a challenge. Even though there is a large anatomical variability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Chi Nok Enoch Kan , Najibakram Maheenaboobacker , Dong Hye Ye

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Quanzheng Li

Visualizing the perceptual content by analyzing human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been an active research area. However, due to its high dimensionality, complex dimensional structure, and small number of samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-27 Yunfeng Lin , Jiangbei Li , Hanjing Wang

Currently, MRI-only radiotherapy (RT) eliminates some of the concerns about using CT images in RT chains such as the registration of MR images to a separate CT, extra dose delivery, and the additional cost of repeated imaging. However, one…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Faeze Gholamiankhah , Samaneh Mostafapour , Hossein Arabi

By the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle, ultra-low-dose CT reconstruction is a holy grail to minimize cancer risks and genetic damages, especially for children. With the development of medical CT technologies, the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Weiwen Wu , Chuang Niu , Shadi Ebrahimian , Hengyong Yu , Mannu Kalra , Ge Wang

This study introduces an innovative application of Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (C-GAN) integrated with Stacked Hourglass Networks (SHGN) aimed at enhancing image segmentation, particularly in the challenging environment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Haowei Yang , Yuxiang Hu , Shuyao He , Ting Xu , Jiajie Yuan , Xingxin Gu

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers advantages over conventional fan-beam CT in that it requires a shorter time and less exposure to obtain images. CBCT has found a wide variety of applications in patient positioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 S. Kida , S. Kaji , K. Nawa , T. Imae , T. Nakamoto , S. Ozaki , T. Ohta , Y. Nozawa , K. Nakagawa

The progress in generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), opened new possibilities for image generation but raised concerns about potential malicious uses, especially in sensitive areas like medical imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Pasqualino , Luca Guarnera , Alessandro Ortis , Sebastiano Battiato

Recently image inpainting has witnessed rapid progress due to generative adversarial networks (GAN) that are able to synthesize realistic contents. However, most existing GAN-based methods for semantic inpainting apply an auto-encoder…

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Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) is a non-invasive technique capturing cross-sectional area of the retina in micro-meter resolutions. It has been widely used as a auxiliary imaging reference to detect eye-related pathology and predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Shuo Chen , Da Ma , Sieun Lee , Timothy T. L. Yu , Gavin Xu , Donghuan Lu , Karteek Popuri , Myeong Jin Ju , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg

This paper presents the development and validation of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) purposed to create high-resolution, realistic Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) images. We trained the Style and WAvelet based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Jad F. Assaf , Anthony Abou Mrad , Dan Z. Reinstein , Guillermo Amescua , Cyril Zakka , Timothy Archer , Jeffrey Yammine , Elsa Lamah , Michèle Haykal , Shady T. Awwad

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extensively studied in the past few years. Arguably their most significant impact has been in the area of computer vision where great advances have been made in challenges such as plausible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengwei Wang , Qi She , Tomas E. Ward

Computed Tomography (CT) is pivotal in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. Sparse-view CT, offering reduced ionizing radiation, faces challenges due to its under-sampled nature, leading to ill-posed reconstruction problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiayang Shi , Junyi Zhu , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg , Matthew B. Blaschko

Performing recognition tasks using latent fingerprint samples is often challenging for automated identification systems due to poor quality, distortion, and partially missing information from the input samples. We propose a direct latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Ali Dabouei , Sobhan Soleymani , Hadi Kazemi , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

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Compressive sensing (CS) is widely used to reduce the acquisition time of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Although state-of-the-art deep learning based methods have been able to obtain fast, high-quality reconstruction of CS-MR images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Bhavya Vasudeva , Puneesh Deora , Saumik Bhattacharya , Pyari Mohan Pradhan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) transform low-dimensional latent vectors into visually plausible images. If the real dataset contains only clean images, then ostensibly, the manifold learned by the GAN should contain only clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Subarna Tripathi , Zachary C. Lipton , Truong Q. Nguyen