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Recent denoising algorithms based on the "blind-spot" strategy show impressive blind image denoising performances, without utilizing any external dataset. While the methods excel in recovering highly contaminated images, we observe that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Chaewon Kim , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Algorithm unrolling methods have proven powerful for solving the regularized least squares problem in computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These approaches unfold an iterative algorithm with a fixed number of iterations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully, one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods are the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Abinash Nayak

We propose a new plug-and-play priors (PnP) based MR image reconstruction method that systematically enforces data consistency while also exploiting deep-learning priors. Our prior is specified through a convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Weijie Gan , Cihat Eldeniz , Jiaming Liu , Sihao Chen , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We propose a new approach for non-Cartesian magnetic resonance image reconstruction. While unrolled architectures provide robustness via data-consistency layers, embedding measurement operators in Deep Neural Network (DNN) can become…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Yiwei Chen , Chao Tang , Amir Aghabiglou , Chung San Chu , Yves Wiaux

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an imaging modality exploiting the nonlinear magnetization behavior of (super-)paramagnetic nanoparticles to obtain a space- and often also time-dependent concentration of a tracer consisting of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Mads Thorstein Roar Henriksen , Peter Maass

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

We present two efficient numerical methods for susceptibility artifact correction applicable in Echo Planar Imaging (EPI), an ultra fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique widely used in clinical applications. Both methods address a…

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The fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) with physics-guided frameworks has opened transformative avenues for advancing the design and optimization of electromagnetic and nanophotonic systems. Innovations in deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Parallel imaging is a widely-used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, current methods still perform poorly in reconstructing artifact-free MRI images from highly undersampled k-space data. Recently, implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

The ability to recover MRI signal from noise is key to achieve fast acquisition, accurate quantification, and high image quality. Past work has shown convolutional neural networks can be used with abundant and paired low and high-SNR images…

Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising approach to realize in vivo transcranial cerebral vascular imaging. However, the strong attenuation and distortion of the photoacoustic wave caused by the thick porous skull greatly affect the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Ya Gao , Wenyi Xu , Yiming Chen , Weiya Xie , Qian Cheng

Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Benfenati

We introduce a novel energy formulation for Plug- and-Play (PnP) image recovery. Traditional PnP methods that use a convolutional neural network (CNN) do not have an energy based formulation. The primary focus of this work is to introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Jyothi Rikabh Chand , Mathews Jacob

Plug-and-play denoisers can be used to perform generic image restoration tasks independent of the degradation type. These methods build on the fact that the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) optimization can be solved using smaller sub-problems,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-23 Siavash Bigdeli , David Honzátko , Sabine Süsstrunk , L. Andrea Dunbar

The use of Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods has become a central approach for solving inverse problems, with denoisers serving as regularising priors that guide optimisation towards a clean solution. In this work, we introduce KAN-PnP, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yanqi Cheng , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) suffers from inherent limitations that can degrade the quality of reconstructed results, such as noise, artifacts and incomplete data acquisition caused by sparse sampling or partial array detection. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yu Zhang , Shuang Li , Yibing Wang , Yu Sun , Wenyi Xiang

We propose a new operator-sketching paradigm for designing efficient iterative data-driven reconstruction (IDR) schemes, e.g. Plug-and-Play algorithms and deep unrolling networks. These IDR schemes are currently the state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Modern image restoration and super-resolution methods utilize deep learning due to its superior performance compared to traditional algorithms. However, deep learning typically requires large labeled training datasets, which are rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Suraj Singh , Anastasia Batsheva , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ahmed Bouridane