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Objective: Quantitative technique based on In-line phase-contrast computed tomography with single scanning attracts more attention in application due to the flexibility of the implementation. However, the quantitative results usually suffer…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Suyu Liao , Shiwo Deng , Yining Zhu , Huitao Zhang , Peiping Zhu , Kai Zhang , Xing Zhao

Computed Tomography (CT) using synchrotron radiation is a powerful technique that, compared to lab-CT techniques, boosts high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing access to a range of contrast-formation mechanisms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Precession electron diffraction has in the past few decades become a powerful technique for structure solving, strain analysis, and orientation mapping, to name a few. One of the benefits of precessing the electron beam, is increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-12 Gregory Nordahl , Lewys Jones , Emil Frang Christiansen , Kasper Aas Hunnestad , Magnus Nord

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…

Deep learning has potential to automate screening, monitoring and grading of disease in medical images. Pretraining with contrastive learning enables models to extract robust and generalisable features from natural image datasets,…

Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Giammarco La Barbera , Haithem Boussaid , Francesco Maso , Sabine Sarnacki , Laurence Rouet , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive medical imaging modality utilizing the current-density/voltage data measured on the surface of the subject. Calder\'on's method is a relatively recent EIT imaging algorithm that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

To accommodate rapid changes in the real world, the cognition system of humans is capable of continually learning concepts. On the contrary, conventional deep learning models lack this capability of preserving previously learned knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Tianren Wang , Brian C. Lovell

In clinical CT system, the x-ray tube emits polychromatic x-rays, and the x-ray detectors operate in the current-integrating mode. This physical process is accurately described by an energy-dependent non-linear integral equation. However,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Wenxiang Cong , Bruno De Man , Ge Wang

One of the solutions of depth imaging of moving scene is to project a static pattern on the object and use just a single image for reconstruction. However, if the motion of the object is too fast with respect to the exposure time of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Yuki Shiba , Satoshi Ono , Ryo Furukawa , Shinsaku Hiura , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Recent developments in high-power ultrafast optical technology and emerging theoretical frameworks in strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) are unveiling nuanced differentiations between the semi-classical and full quantum…

Convolutional autoencoders have emerged as popular methods for unsupervised defect segmentation on image data. Most commonly, this task is performed by thresholding a pixel-wise reconstruction error based on an $\ell^p$ distance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Bergmann , Sindy Löwe , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging plays an important role in advanced imaging applications due to its material decomposition capability. Image-domain decomposition operates directly on CT images using linear matrix inversion,…

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Coherent diffraction imaging is a high-resolution imaging technique whose potential can be greatly enhanced by applying the extrapolation method presented here. We demonstrate enhancement in resolution of a non-periodical object…

Purpose: This study proposes a systematic method for determining the optimal x-ray tube settings/energy windows and fluence for minimal noise and maximum CNR in material density images obtained from DECT scans by fixing the subject size and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Fatma Terzioglu , Emil Y. Sidky , Jp Phillips , Ingrid Reiser , Guillaume Bal , Xiaochuan Pan

One of the advantages of spectral computed tomography (CT) is it can achieve accurate material components using the material decomposition methods. The image-based material decomposition is a common method to obtain specific material…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Weiwen Wu , Peijun Chen , Vince Vardhanabhuti , Weifei Wu , Hengyong Yu

Purpose: Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been shown to derive stopping power ratio (SPR) map with higher accuracy than conventional single energy CT (SECT) by obtaining the energy dependence of photon interactions. However, DECT is not as widely…

Dual energy X-ray Computed Tomography (DECT) enables to automatically decompose materials in clinical images without the manual segmentation using the dependency of the X-ray linear attenuation with energy. In this work we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Jiandong Wang , Alessandro Perelli

With increasing interest in high-speed imaging should come an increased interest in the response times of our scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) detectors. Previous works have previously highlighted and contrasted performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Tiarnan Mullarkey , Matthew Geever , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Ian Griffiths , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones

In medical image segmentation, particularly in UNet-like architectures, upsampling is primarily used to transform smaller feature maps into larger ones, enabling feature fusion between encoder and decoder features and supporting multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chengkun Sun , Jinqian Pan , Renjie Liang , Zhengkang Fan , Xin Miao , Jiang Bian , Jie Xu