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Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a novel medical imaging modality for mapping the distribution of proton relative stopping power (RSP) in medical objects of interest. Compared to conventional X-ray computed tomography, where range…

The framework of ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) has recently re-emerged as a powerful, safe and operator-independent way to image the breast. State of the art image reconstruction methods are performed with iterative techniques based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Luca A. Forte

Ultrasound Computed Tomography (USCT) provides a radiation-free option for high-resolution clinical imaging. Despite its potential, the computationally intensive Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) required for tissue property reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Zhijun Zeng , Yihang Zheng , Youjia Zheng , Yubing Li , Zuoqiang Shi , He Sun

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology capable of providing high chemical specificity, which is crucial for many applications such as detecting threats in luggage. This type of application requires both fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Wail Mustafa , Christian Kehl , Ulrik Lund Olsen , Søren Kimmer Schou Gregersen , David Malmgren-Hansen , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Ultrasound imaging is a real-time diagnostic modality that reconstructs acoustic signals into visual representations of internal body structures. A key component in this process is beamforming, with the Delay and Sum (DAS) algorithm being a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chiara Razzetta , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in ultrasound (US) images, particularly small ones, is challenging due to noise and variability in imaging conditions (e.g., probe position, patient anatomy, tissue characteristics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Danielle L. Ferreira , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni , Gopal Avinash

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging computed imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles to form images of the absorbed optical energy density within tissue. If the object…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Joemini Poudel , Thomas P. Matthews , Lei Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Lihong V. Wang

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is an emerging computed imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles to form images of the absorbed optical energy density within tissue. When the imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Qiwei Sheng , Kun Wang , Thomas P. Matthews , Jun Xia , Liren Zhu , Lihong V. Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

Digital cameras consume ~0.1 microjoule per pixel to capture and encode video, resulting in a power usage of ~20W for a 4K sensor operating at 30 fps. Imagining gigapixel cameras operating at 100-1000 fps, the current processing model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Miao Cao , Siming Zheng , Lishun Wang , Ziyang Chen , David Brady , Xin Yuan

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

The deployment of artificial intelligence in medical imaging is hindered by high computational complexity and resource-intensive processing of volumetric data. Although chest computed tomography (CT) volumes offer richer diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shadid Yousuf , S. M. Mahbubur Rahman , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising approach to reduce the number of measurements in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) while preserving high spatial resolution. This allows to increase the measurement speed and to reduce system costs.…

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology combines the advantages of optical imaging and ultrasound imaging, showing great potential in biomedical applications. Many preclinical studies and clinical applications urgently require fast,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Yuwei Zheng , Zijian Gao , Yuting Shen , Jiadong Zhang , Daohuai Jiang , Fengyu Liu , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction plays a crucial role in industrial nondestructive testing and medical diagnosis. Sparse view CT reconstruction aims to reconstruct high-quality CT images while only using a small number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Wangduo Xie , Richard Schoonhoven , Tristan van Leeuwen , Matthew B. Blaschko

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Xuehang Zheng , Zening Lu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Increasing the imaging speed is a central aim in photoacoustic tomography. This issue is especially important in the case of sequential scanning approaches as applied for most existing optical detection schemes. In this work we address this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Markus Haltmeier , Thomas Berer , Sunghwan Moon , Peter Burgholzer

Focused transmits are the most commonly used transmit strategy for echocardiograms, but suffer from relatively low frame rates, and in 3D, even lower volume rates. Fast imaging based on unfocused transmits has disadvantages such as motion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Wessel L. van Nierop , Oisín Nolan , Tristan S. W. Stevens , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has been a promising biomedical imaging technology in recent years. However, the point-by-point scanning mechanism results in low-speed imaging, which limits the application of PAM. Reducing sampling density…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Jiasheng Zhou , Da He , Xiaoyu Shang , Zhendong Guo , Sung-liang Chen , Jiajia Luo

Ultra low radiation dose in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important clinical objective in order to minimize the risk of carcinogenesis. Compressed Sensing (CS) enables significant reductions in radiation dose to be achieved by…