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Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

The acquisition conditions for low-dose and high-dose CT images are usually different, so that the shifts in the CT numbers often occur. Accordingly, unsupervised deep learning-based approaches, which learn the target image distribution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Chanyong Jung , Joonhyung Lee , Sunkyoung You , Jong Chul Ye

We consider structure discovery of undirected graphical models from observational data. Inferring likely structures from few examples is a complex task often requiring the formulation of priors and sophisticated inference procedures.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Eugene Belilovsky , Kyle Kastner , Gaël Varoquaux , Matthew Blaschko

Three-dimensional synthetic aperture radar (3D SAR) is an advanced active microwave imaging technology widely utilized in remote sensing area. To achieve high-resolution 3D imaging,3D SAR requires observations from multiple aspects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Da Li , Guoqiang Zhao , Chen Yao , Kaiqiang Zhu , Houjun Sun , Jiacheng Bao , Maokun Li

This work investigates three methods for calculating loss for autoencoder-based pretraining of image encoders: The commonly used reconstruction loss, the more recently introduced deep perceptual similarity loss, and a feature prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Since convolutional neural networks perform well in learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been widely used in image denoising tasks. However, the computational complexity increases dramatically as well…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yuanfan Zhang , Gen Li , Lei Sun

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based image reconstruction methods have been intensely used for X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction applications. Despite great success, good performance of this data-based approach critically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ziling Wu , Abdulaziz Alorf , Ting Yang , Ling Li , Yunhui Zhu

A variety of deep neural network (DNN)-based image denoising methods have been proposed for use with medical images. These methods are typically trained by minimizing loss functions that quantify a distance between the denoised image, or a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Kaiyan Li , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

Computed Tomography (CT) image reconstruction is crucial for accurate diagnosis and deep learning approaches have demonstrated significant potential in improving reconstruction quality. However, the choice of loss function profoundly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yipeng Sun , Yixing Huang , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Mareike Thies , Mingxuan Gu , Siyuan Mei , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

Deep learning methods based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition tasks have been widely studied currently. The existing deep methods are insufficient to perceive and mine the scattering information of SAR images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenxi Zhao , Daochang Wang , Siqian Zhang , Gangyao Kuang

Features obtained from object recognition CNNs have been widely used for measuring perceptual similarities between images. Such differentiable metrics can be used as perceptual learning losses to train image enhancement models. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Learning a typical image enhancement pipeline involves minimization of a loss function between enhanced and reference images. While L1 and L2 losses are perhaps the most widely used functions for this purpose, they do not necessarily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Hossein Talebi , Peyman Milanfar

In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang

An approach to incorporate deep learning within an iterative image reconstruction framework to reconstruct images from severely incomplete measurement data is presented. Specifically, we utilize a convolutional neural network (CNN) as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Brendan Kelly , Thomas P. Matthews , Mark A. Anastasio

Traditional model-based image reconstruction (MBIR) methods combine forward and noise models with simple object priors. Recent application of deep learning methods for image reconstruction provides a successful data-driven approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Ling Chen , Zhishen Huang , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Because of the internal malfunction of satellite sensors and poor atmospheric conditions such as thick cloud, the acquired remote sensing data often suffer from missing information, i.e., the data usability is greatly reduced. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Chao Zeng , Xinghua Li , Yancong Wei