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Deep learning has been successfully applied to low-dose CT (LDCT) image denoising for reducing potential radiation risk. However, the widely reported supervised LDCT denoising networks require a training set of paired images, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yuhui Ruan , Qiao Yuan , Chuang Niu , Chen Li , Yudong Yao , Ge Wang , Yueyang Teng

The objective of this study was to develop a PET tumor-segmentation framework that addresses the challenges of limited spatial resolution, high image noise, and lack of clinical training data with ground-truth tumor boundaries in PET…

Synchrotron-based X-ray computed tomography is widely used for investigating inner structures of specimens at high spatial resolutions. However, potential beam damage to samples often limits the X-ray exposure during tomography experiments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Ziling Wu , Tekin Bicer , Zhengchun Liu , Vincent De Andrade , Yunhui Zhu , Ian T. Foster

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is crucial in medicine, but its clinical use is limited due to high signal-to-noise ratio doses increasing radiation exposure. Lowering doses increases Poisson noise, which current denoising methods fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yang Shi , Jingchao Wang , Liangsi Lu , Mingxuan Huang , Ruixin He , Yifeng Xie , Hanqian Liu , Minzhe Guo , Yangyang Liang , Weipeng Zhang , Zimeng Li , Xuhang Chen

Moving object detection (MOD) in remote sensing is significantly challenged by low resolution, extremely small object sizes, and complex noise interference. Current deep learning-based MOD methods rely on probability density estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinyue Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Zhongjian Huang , Tianyang Zhang , Yifei Jiang , Licheng Jiao

This paper reviewed the machine learning-based studies for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of machine learning-based methods in PET attenuation correction and low-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Tonghe Wang , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

Fully automatic detection of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images can facilitate early diagnosis and repression of malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Although convolutional neural networks are a powerful solution, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Anindo Saha , Prem Prasad , Abdullah Thabit

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

Deep image prior (DIP) has been successfully applied to positron emission tomography (PET) image restoration, enabling represent implicit prior using only convolutional neural network architecture without training dataset, whereas the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yuya Onishi , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Keisuke Matsubara , Masanobu Ibaraki

Objective: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has been a commonly used imaging modality in broad clinical applications. One of the most important tradeoffs in PET imaging is between image quality and radiation dose: high image quality comes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Shaoyan Pan , Elham Abouei , Junbo Peng , Joshua Qian , Jacob F Wynne , Tonghe Wang , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Jonathon A Nye , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

Although supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often outperform conventional alternatives for denoising positron emission tomography (PET) images, they require many low- and high-quality reference PET image pairs. Herein, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yuya Onishi , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Hiroyuki Ohba , Ryosuke Ota , Etsuji Yoshikawa , Yasuomi Ouchi

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality widely used in neuroscience studies. To obtain meaningful quantitative results from PET images, attenuation correction is necessary during image reconstruction. For PET/MR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Kuang Gong , Jaewon Yang , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Youngho Seo , Quanzheng Li

Combining dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) with positron emission tomography (PET) offers many potential clinical applications but typically requires expensive hardware upgrades or increases radiation doses on PET/CT scanners due to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Siqi Li , Yansong Zhu , Benjamin A. Spencer , Guobao Wang

Deep learning implemented with convolutional network architectures can exceed specialists' diagnostic accuracy. However, whole-image deep learning trained on a given dataset may not generalize to other datasets. The problem arises because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Norsang Lama , R. Joe Stanley , Anand Nambisan , Akanksha Maurya , Jason Hagerty , William V. Stoecker

Acquiring high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images requires administering high-dose radiotracers, which increases radiation exposure risks. Generating standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) has become a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Xiaolong Niu , Zanting Ye , Xu Han , Yanchao Huang , Hao Sun , Hubing Wu , Lijun Lu

Imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are key in cancer detection, inspiring Deep Neural Networks (DNN) models that merge these scans for tumor segmentation. When both CT and PET scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Nada Saadi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

The analysis of multi-modality positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) images for computer aided diagnosis applications requires combining the sensitivity of PET to detect abnormal regions with anatomical localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

In this study, we introduce a multi-modal approach that efficiently integrates multi-scale clinical and dermoscopy features within a single network, thereby substantially reducing model parameters. The proposed method includes three novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-31 Peng Tang , Tobias Lasser

Diffusion models have recently dominated image synthesis tasks. However, the iterative denoising process is expensive in computations at inference time, making diffusion models less practical for low-latency and scalable real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yefei He , Luping Liu , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

Deep learning-based image compression has made great progresses recently. However, many leading schemes use serial context-adaptive entropy model to improve the rate-distortion (R-D) performance, which is very slow. In addition, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Haisheng Fu , Feng Liang , Jie Liang , Yongqiang Wang , Guohe Zhang , Jingning Han