English
Related papers

Related papers: Virtual Cylindrical PET for Efficient DOI Image Re…

200 papers

Differentiable rendering has been widely adopted in computer graphics as a powerful approach to inverse problems, enabling efficient gradient-based optimization by differentiating the image formation process with respect to millions of…

Cone Beam CT plays an important role in many medical fields nowadays, but the potential of this imaging modality is hampered by lower image quality compared to the conventional CT. A lot of recent research has been directed towards…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Cross-modal 3D medical image analysis requires voxelwise representations that remain anatomically consistent across imaging contrasts, scanners, and acquisition protocols. Recent work has shown that frozen 2D Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Guney Tombak , Ertunc Erdil , Ender Konukoglu

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

In this paper we prove that the choice of a suitable treatment of the scintillator surfaces, along with suitable photodetectors electronics and specific algorithms for raw data analysis, allow to achieve an optimal tradeoff between energy,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Luigi Cosentino , Paolo Finocchiaro , Alfio Pappalardo , Franco Garibaldi

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an essential technique in many clinical applications that allows for quantitative imaging at the molecular level. This study aims to develop a denoising method using novel dilated convolutional neural…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Karl Spuhler , Mario Serrano-Sosa , Renee Cattell , Christine DeLorenzo , Chuan Huang

Crystal arrays made of LSO and LuAP crystals 2x2x10 mm pixels were manufactured for evaluation of detector with depth-of-interaction (DOI) determination capability intended for small animal positron emission tomograph. Position-sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fedorov , A. Annenkov , A. Kholmetsky , M. Korzhik , P. Lecoq , A. Lobko , O. Missevitch , A. Tkatchov

We present a method and preliminary results of the image reconstruction in the Jagiellonian PET tomograph. Using GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission), interactions of the 511 keV photons with a cylindrical detector were…

Purpose: This study presents a variable resolution (VR) sampling and deep learning reconstruction approach for multi-spectral MRI near metal implants, aiming to reduce scan times while maintaining image quality. Background: The rising use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Azadeh Sharafi , Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Mehran Baboli , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

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

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier , Volkmar Schulz

Preclinical research and organ-dedicated applications require high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) detectors to visualize small structures and understand biological processes at a finer level of detail. Current commercial…

The growing interest in human-grade total body positron emission tomography (PET) systems has also application in small animal research. Due to the existing limitations in human-based studies involving drug development and novel treatment…

To correct for respiratory motion in PET imaging, an interpretable and unsupervised deep learning technique, FlowNet-PET, was constructed. The network was trained to predict the optical flow between two PET frames from different breathing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Teaghan O'Briain , Carlos Uribe , Kwang Moo Yi , Jonas Teuwen , Ioannis Sechopoulos , Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

Objective: This paper introduces a novel PET imaging methodology called 3-dimensional positron imaging (3D{\pi}), which integrates total-body (TB) coverage, time-of-flight (TOF) technology, ultra-low dose imaging capabilities, and…

The availability of city-scale Lidar maps enables the potential of city-scale place recognition using mobile cameras. However, the city-scale Lidar maps generally need to be compressed for storage efficiency, which increases the difficulty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Xudong Cai , Yongcai Wang , Zhe Huang , Yu Shao , Deying Li

Purpose: Neural network image reconstruction directly from measurement data is a relatively new field of research, that until now has been limited to producing small single-slice images (e.g., 1x128x128). This paper proposes a novel and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 William Whiteley , Wing K. Luk , Jens Gregor

Extremely high data rates expected in next-generation radio interferometers necessitate a fast and robust way to process measurements in a big data context. Dimensionality reduction can alleviate computational load needed to process these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Vijay Kartik , Arwa Dabbech , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

Deep image prior (DIP) has recently attracted attention owing to its unsupervised positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction, which does not require any prior training dataset. In this paper, we present the first attempt to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Kibo Ote , Hideaki Tashima , Taiga Yamaya