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The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, these models often suffer from excessive complexity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Yousef Sadegheih , Afshin Bozorgpour , Pratibha Kumari , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals are attracting growing interest in various research fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry, pharmacy and biology owing to their low dimensionality and dramatic change of properties compared to the bulk…

Cosmic-ray muon tomography is a promising technique for border security applications, leveraging highly penetrating cosmic-ray muons and their interactions with various materials to generate 3D images of large and dense objects, such as…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

The identification and reconstruction of charged particles, such as muons, is a main challenge for the physics program of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. This task will become increasingly difficult with the start of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-30 Jonathan Renusch

In accelerated MRI reconstruction, the anatomy of a patient is recovered from a set of under-sampled and noisy measurements. Deep learning approaches have been proven to be successful in solving this ill-posed inverse problem and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Blur detection is the separation of blurred and clear regions of an image, which is an important and challenging task in computer vision. In this work, we regard blur detection as an image segmentation problem. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Fan Yang , Xiao Xiao

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced significantly in visual representation learning and recognition. However, they face notable challenges in performance and computational efficiency when dealing with real-world, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

Convolutional neural networks have witnessed remarkable improvements in computational efficiency in recent years. A key driving force has been the idea of trading-off model expressivity and efficiency through a combination of $1\times 1$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Zhichao Lu , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging (SRUS) is an active area of research as it brings up to a ten-fold improvement in the resolution of microvascular structures. The limitations to the clinical adoption of SRUS include long acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Arthur David Redfern , Katherine G. Brown

Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) imaging algorithms based on deep learning can effectively reduce computational costs. The idea of existing researches is to reconstruct the elevation for each range-azimuth cell in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Yu Ren , Xiaoling Zhang , Yunqiao Hu , Xu Zhan

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has become a vital imaging technique in various medical fields but scatter artifacts are a major limitation in CBCT scanning. This challenge is exacerbated by the use of large flat panel 2D detectors.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Harshit Agrawal , Ari Hietanen , Simo Särkkä

Traditional weak-lensing mass reconstruction techniques suffer from various artifacts, including noise amplification and the mass-sheet degeneracy. In Hong et al. (2021), we demonstrated that many of these pitfalls of traditional mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Sangjun Cha , M. James Jee , Sungwook E. Hong , Sangnam Park , Dongsu Bak , Taehwan kim

Cosmic-ray muons are highly penetrative charged particles that are observed at sea level with a flux of approximately one per square centimetre per minute. They interact with matter primarily through Coulomb scattering, which is exploited…

Freehand 3D ultrasound (US) has important clinical value due to its low cost and unrestricted field of view. Recently deep learning algorithms have removed its dependence on bulky and expensive external positioning devices. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Mingyuan Luo , Xin Yang , Hongzhang Wang , Liwei Du , Dong Ni

Muon radiography is a fast growing field in applied scientific research. In recent years, many detector technologies and imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering and absorption properties of cosmic-ray muons have been developed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-11 F. Ambrosino , L. Bonechi , L. Cimmino , R. D'Alessandro , D. G. Ireland , R. Kaiser , D. F. Mahon , N. Mori , P. Noli , G. Saracino , C. Shearer , L. Viliani , G. Yang

This paper applies the recent fast iterative neural network framework, Momentum-Net, using appropriate models to low-dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction. At each layer of the proposed Momentum-Net, the model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

Purpose To develop and evaluate a deep learning-based method (MC-Net) to suppress motion artifacts in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods MC-Net was derived from a UNet combined with a two-stage multi-loss function. T1-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Lei Zhang , Xiaoke Wang , Michael Rawson , Radu Balan , Edward H. Herskovits , Elias Melhem , Linda Chang , Ze Wang , Thomas Ernst