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PET suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, the k-space data acquisition process in MRI is time-consuming by PET-MRI systems. We aim to accelerate MRI and improve PET image quality. This paper proposed a novel joint…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an active research area. Previous studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar , Himashi Peiris , Victoria Mar , Cameron Dennis Pain , Zhaolin Chen

In recent years, the denoising diffusion model has achieved remarkable success in image segmentation modeling. With its powerful nonlinear modeling capabilities and superior generalization performance, denoising diffusion models have…

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The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical imaging and radiotherapy is hindered by the limited availability of large imaging data repositories. With recent research and improvements in denoising diffusion…

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Diffusion models learn strong image priors that can be leveraged to solve inverse problems like medical image reconstruction. However, for real-world applications such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, directly training diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Taewon Yang , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising is crucial for reduced radiation exposure while ensuring diagnostically acceptable image quality. Despite significant advancements driven by deep learning (DL) in recent years, existing DL-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhihao Chen , Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jun Zhao , Hongming Shan

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

In PET, the amount of relative (signal-dependent) noise present in different body regions can be significantly different and is inherently related to the number of counts present in that region. The number of counts in a region depends, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ye Li , Jianan Cui , Junyu Chen , Guodong Zeng , Scott Wollenweber , Floris Jansen , Se-In Jang , Kyungsang Kim , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

Capsule endoscopy has enabled minimally invasive gastrointestinal imaging, but its clinical utility is limited by the inherently low resolution of captured images due to hardware, power, and transmission constraints. This limitation hampers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Haozhe Jia

Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful technique in image generation, especially for image super-resolution tasks. While 2D diffusion models significantly enhance the resolution of individual images, existing diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Bohao Chen , Yanchao Zhang , Yanan Lv , Hua Han , Xi Chen

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important topic in the field of radiology over the past decades. LDCT reduces ionizing radiation-induced patient health risks but it also results in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Wenjun Xia , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

Reducing the injected dose would result in quality degradation and loss of information in PET imaging. To address this issue, deep learning methods have been introduced to predict standard PET images (S-PET) from the corresponding low-dose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Behnoush Sanaei , Reza Faghihi , Hossein Arabi

Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…