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Images play a vital role in understanding data through visual representation. It gives a clear representation of the object in context. But if this image is not clear it might not be of much use. Thus, the topic of Image Super Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Umashankar Kumaravelan , Nivedita M

Whole-body PET/CT scan is an important tool for diagnosing various malignancies (e.g., malignant melanoma, lymphoma, or lung cancer), and accurate segmentation of tumors is a key part for subsequent treatment. In recent years, CNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Hengzhi Xue , Qingqing Fang , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are two widely used clinical imaging modalities for non-invasive diagnosis. However, both of these modalities come with certain problems. CT uses harmful ionising radiation, and MRI suffers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Philipp Ernst , Soumick Chatterjee , Georg Rose , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

PET super-resolution is highly under-constrained because paired multi-resolution scans from the same subject are rarely available, and effective resolution is determined by scanner-specific physics (e.g., PSF, detector geometry, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liutao Yang , Zi Wang , Peiyuan Jing , Xiaowen Wang , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Kuangyu Shi , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Dynamic positron emission tomography (dPET) image reconstruction is extremely challenging due to the limited counts received in individual frame. In this paper, we propose a spatial-temporal convolutional primal dual network (STPDnet) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Rui Hu , Jianan Cui , Chengjin Yu , Yunmei Chen , Huafeng Liu

Gating is commonly used in PET imaging to reduce respiratory motion blurring and facilitate more sophisticated motion correction methods. In the applications of low dose PET, however, reducing injection dose causes increased noise and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Chi Liu

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an imaging modality for diagnosing a number of neurological diseases. In contrast to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), PET is costly and involves injecting a radioactive substance into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Haoliang Sun , Ronak Mehta , Hao H. Zhou , Zhichun Huang , Sterling C. Johnson , Vivek Prabhakaran , Vikas Singh

Positron range (PR) limits spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy in PET imaging, particularly for high-energy positron-emitting radionuclides like 68Ga. We propose a deep learning method using 3D residual encoder-decoder…

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images while minimizing radiation exposure, various methods have been proposed for reconstructing standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) sinograms directly.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Cui , Pinxian Zeng , Xinyi Zeng , Peng Wang , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Although deep learning based models for underwater image enhancement have achieved good performance, they face limitations in both lightweight and effectiveness, which prevents their deployment and application on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fuheng Zhou , Dikai Wei , Ye Fan , Yulong Huang , Yonggang Zhang

Neurological Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a critical imaging modality for diagnosing and studying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. However, the inherent low spatial resolution of PET images poses significant…

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

Positron emission tomography(PET) image reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers from high level of noise due to limited counts received. Recently deep neural networks especially convolutional neural networks(CNN) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Rui Hu , Huafeng Liu

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are widely used for modeling plasma kinetics by tracking discrete particle dynamics. However, their computational cost remains prohibitively high, due to the need to simulate large numbers of particles to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Jianhua Lv , Linlin Zhong

This paper presents a robust multi-domain network designed to restore low-quality amyloid PET images acquired in a short period of time. The proposed method is trained on pairs of PET images from short (2 minutes) and standard (20 minutes)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hyoung Suk Park , Young Jin Jeong , Kiwan Jeon

Face super-resolution is a technology that transforms a low-resolution face image into the corresponding high-resolution one. In this paper, we build a novel parsing map guided face super-resolution network which extracts the face prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chenyang Wang , Junjun Jiang , Zhiwei Zhong , Deming Zhai , Xianming Liu

The Computed Tomography (CT) for diagnosis of lesions in human internal organs is one of the most fundamental topics in medical imaging. Low-dose CT, which offers reduced radiation exposure, is preferred over standard-dose CT, and therefore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wenjie Liu

By acquiring two sets of tomographic measurements at distinct X-ray spectra, the dual-energy CT (DECT) enables quantitative material-specific imaging. However, the conventionally decomposed material basis images may encounter severe image…

Structured pruning compresses neural networks by reducing channels (filters) for fast inference and low footprint at run-time. To restore accuracy after pruning, fine-tuning is usually applied to pruned networks. However, too few remaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yu Qian , Jian Cao , Xiaoshuang Li , Jie Zhang , Hufei Li , Jue Chen

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

Recently, deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) steered face super-resolution methods have achieved great progress in restoring degraded facial details by jointly training with facial priors. However, these methods have some obvious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Guangwei Gao , Zixiang Xu , Juncheng Li , Jian Yang , Tieyong Zeng , Guo-Jun Qi