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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used, highly sensitive molecular imaging in clinical diagnosis. There is interest in reducing the radiation exposure from PET but also maintaining adequate image quality. Recent methods using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuxin Xue , Lei Bi , Yige Peng , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a critical challenge in molecular imaging, often hampered by noise amplification, structural blurring, and detail loss due to sparse sampling and the ill-posed nature of inverse problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mengxiao Geng , Zijie Chen , Ran Hong , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Point cloud compression significantly reduces data volume but sacrifices reconstruction quality, highlighting the need for advanced quality enhancement techniques. Most existing approaches focus primarily on point-to-point fidelity, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Tian Guo , Hui Yuan , Qi Liu , Honglei Su , Raouf Hamzaoui , Sam Kwong

Medical image reconstruction with pre-trained score-based generative models (SGMs) has advantages over other existing state-of-the-art deep-learned reconstruction methods, including improved resilience to different scanner setups and…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality that enables the visualization of biochemical and physiological processes across various tissues. Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods have demonstrated significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Voxel-based methods are among the most efficient for point cloud geometry compression, particularly with dense point clouds. However, they face limitations due to a restricted receptive field, especially when handling high-bit depth point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bojun Liu , Yangzhi Ma , Ao Luo , Li Li , Dong Liu

We present the first approach for 3D point-cloud to image translation based on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN). The model handles multi-modal information sources from different domains, i.e. raw point-sets and images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Stefan Milz , Martin Simon , Kai Fischer , Maximillian Pöpperl

Reconstruction of PET images is an ill-posed inverse problem and often requires iterative algorithms to achieve good image quality for reliable clinical use in practice, at huge computational costs. In this paper, we consider the PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jieqing Jiao , Sebastien Ourselin

This paper presents a method to reconstruct high-quality textured 3D models from single images. Current methods rely on datasets with expensive annotations; multi-view images and their camera parameters. Our method relies on GAN generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Aysegul Dundar , Jun Gao , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Limited by the computational efficiency and accuracy, generating complex 3D scenes remains a challenging problem for existing generation networks. In this work, we propose DepthGAN, a novel method of generating depth maps with only semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yidi Li , Yiqun Wang , Zhengda Lu , Jun Xiao

State-of-the-art image inpainting approaches can suffer from generating distorted structures and blurry textures in high-resolution images (e.g., 512x512). The challenges mainly drive from (1) image content reasoning from distant contexts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yanhong Zeng , Jianlong Fu , Hongyang Chao , Baining Guo

Recent years have witnessed the growth of point cloud based applications because of its realistic and fine-grained representation of 3D objects and scenes. However, it is a challenging problem to compress sparse, unstructured, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhu Li , Zhan Ma

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for clinical diagnosis. As PET suffers from low resolution and high noise, numerous efforts try to incorporate anatomical priors into PET image reconstruction, especially with the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Nuobei Xie , Kuang Gong , Ning Guo , Zhixin Qin , Zhifang Wu , Huafeng Liu , Quanzheng Li

Recovering high-quality 3D scenes from a single RGB image is a challenging task in computer graphics. Current methods often struggle with domain-specific limitations or low-quality object generation. To address these, we propose CAST…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Kaixin Yao , Longwen Zhang , Xinhao Yan , Yan Zeng , Qixuan Zhang , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

As a sensitive functional imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) plays a critical role in early disease diagnosis. However, obtaining a high-quality PET image requires injecting a sufficient dose (standard dose) of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Caiwen Jiang , Mianxin Liu , Kaicong Sun , Dinggang Shen

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important clinical imaging tool but inevitably introduces radiation hazards to patients and healthcare providers. Reducing the tracer injection dose and eliminating the CT acquisition for attenuation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tianqi Chen , Jun Hou , Yinchi Zhou , Huidong Xie , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Menghua Xia , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu , Bo Zhou

In autonomous vehicles or robots, point clouds from LiDAR can provide accurate depth information of objects compared with 2D images, but they also suffer a large volume of data, which is inconvenient for data storage or transmission. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Sukai Wang , Jianhao Jiao , Peide Cai , Ming Liu