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Positron emission tomography (PET) offers powerful functional imaging but involves radiation exposure. Efforts to reduce this exposure by lowering the radiotracer dose or scan time can degrade image quality. While using magnetic resonance…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an active research area. Previous studies…

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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 clinical practice, single-radiotracer positron emission tomography (PET) is commonly used for imaging. Although multi-tracer PET imaging can provide supplementary information of radiotracers that are sensitive to physiological function…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Bin Huang , Feihong Xu , Xinchong Shi , Shan Huang , Binxuan Li , Fei Li , Qiegen Liu

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) while minimizing radiation exposure, a range of methods have been designed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) from corresponding low-dose PET (LPET) images. However, most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yuchen Fei , Yanmei Luo , Yan Wang , Jiaqi Cui , Yuanyuan Xu , Jiliu Zhou , Dinggang Shen

To acquire high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images while reducing the radiation tracer dose, numerous efforts have been devoted to reconstructing standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET). However, the success…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Jiaqi Cui , Pinxian Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Diffusion models have recently enabled state-of-the-art reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) images while requiring only image training data. However, domain shift remains a key concern for clinical adoption: priors trained…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is instrumental in clinical diagnosis, offering diverse contrasts that provide comprehensive diagnostic information. However, acquiring multiple MRI contrasts is often constrained by high costs, long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Kh Tohidul Islam , Bohan Zhuang , Guang Yang , Jianfei Cai , Meng Law , Zhaolin Chen

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Non-contrast CT (NCCT) imaging may reduce image contrast and anatomical visibility, potentially increasing diagnostic uncertainty. In contrast, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) facilitates the observation of regions of interest (ROI). Leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Tingyi Lin , Pengju Lyu , Jie Zhang , Yuqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Jianjun Zhu

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely utilized for cancer detection due to its ability to visualize functional and biological processes in vivo. PET images are usually reconstructed from histogrammed raw data (sinograms) using…

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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

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

Diffusion-based sparse-view CT (SVCT) imaging has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to its more stable generative capability. However, recovering reliable image content and visually consistent textures is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianqi Wang , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PET-MRI) systems can obtain functional and anatomical scans. PET suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, the k-space data acquisition process in MRI is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Taofeng Xie , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Chen Luo , Huayu Wang , Congcong Liu , Yuanzhi Zhang , Xuemei Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Guoqing Chen , Dong Liang , Qiyu Jin , Yihang Zhou , Haifeng Wang

Image restoration is rather challenging in adverse weather conditions, especially when multiple degradations occur simultaneously. Blind image decomposition was proposed to tackle this issue, however, its effectiveness heavily relies on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yufeng Yue , Meng Yu , Luojie Yang , Yi Yang

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely employed in particle and nuclear physics experiments. The accuracy of PMT waveform reconstruction directly impacts the detector's spatial and energy resolution. A key challenge arises when multiple…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-06 Kainan Liu , Jingyu Huang , Guihong Huang , Jianyi Luo

Low-dose PET imaging is crucial for reducing patient radiation exposure but faces challenges like noise interference, reduced contrast, and difficulty in preserving physiological details. Existing methods often neglect both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mengxiao Geng , Ran Hong , Xiaoling Xu , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) reconstruction is an inverse problem with severe ill-posedness arising from missing projection angles, and it is difficult to restore high-precision images without sufficient prior knowledge. In…

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