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Purpose: To improve the image quality of highly accelerated multi-channel MRI data by learning a joint variational network that reconstructs multiple clinical contrasts jointly. Methods: Data from our multi-contrast acquisition was embedded…

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Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Purpose: Photon counting (PC) computed tomography (CT) can provide material selective CT imaging at lowest patient dose but it suffers from suboptimal count rate. A dynamic beam attenuator (DBA) can help with count rate by modulating x-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 Haluk Atak , Polad M. Shikhaliev

Medical imaging plays a critical role in various clinical applications. However, due to multiple considerations such as cost and risk, the acquisition of certain image modalities could be limited. To address this issue, many cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Dong Nie , Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

For augmented fluoroscopy during cardiac catheter ablation procedures, a preoperatively acquired 3-D model of the left atrium of the patient can be registered to X-ray images. Therefore the 3D-model is matched with the contrast agent based…

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Electron tomography is a widely used technique for 3D structural analysis of nanomaterials, but it can cause damage to samples due to high electron doses and long exposure times. To minimize such damage, researchers often reduce beam…

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This paper studies inverse problems in quantitative photoacoustic tomography with additional optical current data supplemented from diffuse optical tomography. We propose a three-stage image reconstruction method for the simultaneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Yinxi Pan , Kui Ren , Shanyin Tong

Differentiable 3D-Gaussian splatting (GS) is emerging as a prominent technique in computer vision and graphics for reconstructing 3D scenes. GS represents a scene as a set of 3D Gaussians with varying opacities and employs a computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ziyuan Qu , Omkar Vengurlekar , Mohamad Qadri , Kevin Zhang , Michael Kaess , Christopher Metzler , Suren Jayasuriya , Adithya Pediredla

An optimization-based image reconstruction algorithm is developed for contrast enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using dual-energy scanning. The algorithm minimizes directional total variation (TV) with a data discrepancy and…

Speeding up the data acquisition is one of the central aims to advance tomographic imaging. On the one hand, this reduces motion artifacts due to undesired movements, and on the other hand this decreases the examination time for the…

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Phase-contrast X-ray imaging can improve the visibility of weakly absorbing objects (e.g. soft tissues) by an order of magnitude or more compared to conventional radiographs. Previously, it has been shown that combining phase retrieval with…

This study introduces a novel framework for joint reconstruction of the activity and the attenuation (JRAA) in positron emission tomography (PET) using diffusion posterior sampling (DPS). By leveraging diffusion models (DMs), this approach…

A new development in photoacoustic (PA) imaging has been the use of compact, portable and low-cost laser diodes (LDs), but LD-based PA imaging suffers from low signal intensity recorded by the conventional transducers. A common method to…

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Image binarization techniques are being popularly used in enhancement of noisy and/or degraded images catering different Document Image Anlaysis (DIA) applications like word spotting, document retrieval, and OCR. Most of the existing…

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Spectral CT offers enhanced material discrimination over single-energy systems and enables quantitative estimation of basis material density images. Water/iodine decomposition in contrast-enhanced CT is one of the most widespread…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Matthew Tivnan , Grace Gang , Wenchao Cao , Nadav Shapira , Peter B. Noel , J. Webster Stayman

Three-dimensional (3D) projection acquisition (PA) imaging has recently gained attention because of its advantages, such as achievability of very short echo time, less sensitivity to motion, and undersampled acquisition of projections…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Jinil Park , Taehoon Shin , Jang-Yeon Park

Capturing and reconstructing high-speed dynamic 3D scenes has numerous applications in computer graphics, vision, and interdisciplinary fields such as robotics, aerodynamics, and evolutionary biology. However, achieving this using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Zihao Zou , Ziyuan Qu , Xi Peng , Vivek Boominathan , Adithya Pediredla , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Accurate segmentation of coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography images is essential to diagnose and treat coronary artery diseases. Despite advances in deep learning, challenges such as high intra-class variance and class imbalance limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Rayan Merghani Ahmed , Adnan Iltaf , Mohamed Elmanna , Gang Zhao , Hongliang Li , Yue Du , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou

Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the standard imaging technique for visualizing blood flow and guiding endovascular treatments. The quality of DSA is often negatively impacted by body motion during acquisition,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Ruisheng Su , Matthijs van der Sluijs , Sandra Cornelissen , Wim van Zwam , Aad van der Lugt , Wiro Niessen , Danny Ruijters , Theo van Walsum , Adrian Dalca