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Computed tomography (CT) serves as an effective tool for lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, providing a rich source of features to quantify temporal and spatial tumor changes. Nonetheless, the diversity of CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Faraneh Fathi , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Guoqiang Yu , Jin Chen

Patients undergoing a mechanical thrombectomy procedure usually have a multi-detector CT (MDCT) scan before and after the intervention. The image quality of the flat panel detector CT (FDCT) present in the intervention room is generally…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) plays a vital role in clinical applications by mitigating radiation risks. Nevertheless, reducing radiation doses significantly degrades image quality. Concurrently, common deep learning methods demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wenhao Zhang , Bin Huang , Shuyue Chen , Xiaoling Xu , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

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

Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…

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

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

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

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

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

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

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

Anatomically guided PET reconstruction using MRI information has been shown to have the potential to improve PET image quality. However, these improvements are limited to PET scans with paired MRI information. In this work we employed a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Weijie Gan , Huidong Xie , Carl von Gall , Günther Platsch , Michael T. Jurkiewicz , Andrea Andrade , Udunna C. Anazodo , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hongyu An , Jorge Cabello

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

PET imaging is widely employed for observing biological metabolic activities within the human body. However, numerous benign conditions can cause increased uptake of radiopharmaceuticals, confounding differentiation from malignant tumors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ran Hong , Yuxia Huang , Lei Liu , Zhonghui Wu , Bingxuan Li , Xuemei Wang , Qiegen Liu

Radiation exposure in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging limits its usage in the studies of radiation-sensitive populations, e.g., pregnant women, children, and adults that require longitudinal imaging. Reducing the PET radiotracer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Viswanath P. Sudarshan , Uddeshya Upadhyay , Gary F. Egan , Zhaolin Chen , Suyash P. Awate

List-mode positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is an important tool for PET scanners with many lines-of-response and additional information such as time-of-flight and depth-of-interaction. Deep learning is one possible…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kibo Ote , Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Takashi Isobe , Yasuomi Ouchi

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