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With the development of computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, it is possible to acquire multi-energy data by spectral CT. Being different from conventional CT, the X-ray energy spectrum of spectral CT is cutting into several narrow…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuanwei He , Li Zeng , Qiong Xu , Zhe Wang , Haijun Yu , Zhaoqiang Shen , Zhaojun Yang , Rifeng Zhou

Experimentally acquired microscopy images are unavoidably affected by the presence of noise and other unwanted signals, which degrade their quality and might hide relevant features. With the recent increase in image acquisition rate, modern…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Marco Corrias , Giada Franceschi , Michele Riva , Alberto Tampieri , Karin Föttinger , Ulrike Diebold , Thomas Pock , Cesare Franchini

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

In many inverse problems it is essential to use regularization methods that preserve edges in the reconstructions, and many reconstruction models have been developed for this task, such as the Total Variation (TV) approach. The associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Donghui Chen , Misha E. Kilmer , Per Christian Hansen

We propose an original method for vectorizing an image or zooming it at an arbitrary scale. The core of our method relies on the resolution of a geometric variational model and therefore offers theoretic guarantees. More precisely, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Bertrand Kerautret , Jacques-Olivier Lachaud

We consider linear inverse problems that are formulated in the continuous domain. The object of recovery is a function that is assumed to minimize a convex objective functional. The solutions are constrained by imposing a continuous-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Harshit Gupta , Julien Fageot , Michael Unser

We study the qualitative properties of optimal regularisation parameters in variational models for image restoration. The parameters are solutions of bilevel optimisation problems with the image restoration problem as constraint. A general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

In this paper we investigate the problem of identifying conductivity in electrical impedance tomography from one boundary measurement. A variational method with total variation regularization is here proposed to tackle this problem. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Michael Hinze , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an emerging technology in medical imaging which employs light in the NIR spectrum to estimate the distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. DOT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Alessandro Benfenati , Giuseppe Bisazza , Paola Causin

1D Total Variation (TV) denoising, considering the data fidelity and the Total Variation (TV) regularization, proposes a good restored signal preserving shape edges. The main issue is how to choose the weight $\lambda$ balancing those two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Zhanhao Liu , Marion Perrodin , Thomas Chambrion , Radu Stoica

Due to the merit of establishing volumetric data, X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is increasingly used as a non-destructive evaluation technique in the quality control of advanced manufactured parts with complex non-line-of-sight features.…

In this paper we introduce the notion of second-order total generalized variation (TGV) regularization for manifold-valued data in a discrete setting. We provide an axiomatic approach to formalize reasonable generalizations of TGV to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 K. Bredies , M. Holler , M. Storath , A. Weinmann

We consider the image denoising problem using total variation (TV) regularization. This problem can be computationally challenging to solve due to the non-differentiability and non-linearity of the regularization term. We propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Zhiwei Qin , Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

In this work, we propose Regularization-by-Equivariance (REV), a novel structure-adaptive regularization scheme for solving imaging inverse problems under incomplete measurements. This regularization scheme utilizes the equivariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Junqi Tang

A qualitative comparison of total variation like penalties (total variation, Huber variant of total variation, total generalized variation, ...) is made in the context of global seismic tomography. Both penalized and constrained…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 Ignace Loris , Caroline Verhoeven

This paper aims to numerically solve the two-dimensional electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with Cauchy data. This inverse problem is highly challenging due to its severe ill-posed nature and strong nonlinearity, which necessitates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Kai Li , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

Total variation regularization and total variation flows (TVF) have been widely applied for image enhancement and denoising. To include a generic preservation of crossing curvilinear structures in TVF we lift images to the homogeneous space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Remco Duits , Etienne St-Onge , Jim Portegies , Bart Smets

Recently, non-convex regularisation models have been introduced in order to provide a better prior for gradient distributions in real images. They are based on using concave energies $\phi$ in the total variation type functional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Michael Hintermüller , Tuomo Valkonen , Tao Wu

We present a new computed tomography (CT) method for inverting the Radon transform in 2D. The idea relies on the geometry of the flat torus, hence we call the new method Torus CT. We prove new inversion formulas for integrable functions,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Joonas Ilmavirta , Olli Koskela , Jesse Railo

The problem of restoring images corrupted by Poisson noise is common in many application fields and, because of its intrinsic ill posedness, it requires regularization techniques for its solution. The effectiveness of such techniques…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Daniela di Serafino , Germana Landi , Marco Viola