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Computed tomography (CT) scans offer a detailed, three-dimensional representation of patients' internal organs. However, conventional CT reconstruction techniques necessitate acquiring hundreds or thousands of x-ray projections through a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Chulong Zhang , Lin Liu , Jingjing Dai , Xuan Liu , Wenfeng He , Yinping Chan , Yaoqin Xie , Feng Chi , Xiaokun Liang

In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shohei Hayashi , Bisser Raytchev , Toru Tamaki , Kazufumi Kaneda

Spectral computed tomography (CT) offers the possibility to reconstruct attenuation images at different energy levels, which can be then used for material decomposition. However, traditional methods reconstruct each energy bin individually…

Limited view tomographic reconstruction aims to reconstruct a tomographic image from a limited number of sinogram or projection views arising from sparse view or limited angle acquisitions that reduce radiation dose or shorten scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Bo Zhou , S. Kevin Zhou , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Computed tomography (CT) provides high spatial resolution visualization of 3D structures for scientific and clinical applications. Traditional analytical/iterative CT reconstruction algorithms require hundreds of angular data samplings, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Di Xu , Yang Yang , Hengjie Liu , Qihui Lyu , Martina Descovich , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most important diagnostic imaging techniques in clinical applications. Sparse-view CT imaging reduces the number of projection views to a lower radiation dose and alleviates the potential risk of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Xiaohong Fan , Ke Chen , Huaming Yi , Yin Yang , Jianping Zhang

Medical image translation has the potential to reduce the imaging workload, by removing the need to capture some sequences, and to reduce the annotation burden for developing machine learning methods. GANs have been used successfully to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Pauliina Paavilainen , Saad Ullah Akram , Juho Kannala

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

Dual-energy computed tomography (CT) is to reconstruct images of an object from two projection datasets generated from two distinct x-ray source energy spectra. It can provide more accurate attenuation quantification than conventional CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Wenxiang Cong , Daniel Harrison , Yan Xi , Ge Wang

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

In practical applications of tomographic imaging, there are often challenges for image reconstruction due to under-sampling and insufficient data. In computed tomography (CT), for example, image reconstruction from few views would enable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 Emil Y. Sidky , Chien-Min Kao , Xiaochuan Pan

3D recovery from multi-stereo and stereo images, as an important application of the image-based perspective geometry, serves many applications in computer vision, remote sensing and Geomatics. In this chapter, the authors utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Rongjun Qin , Shuang Song , Xiao Ling , Mostafa Elhashash

Multimodal information is frequently available in medical tasks. By combining information from multiple sources, clinicians are able to make more accurate judgments. In recent years, multiple imaging techniques have been used in clinical…

Accurate motion estimation at high acceleration factors enables rapid motion-compensated reconstruction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) without compromising the diagnostic image quality. In this work, we introduce an attention-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Aya Ghoul , Jiazhen Pan , Andreas Lingg , Jens Kübler , Patrick Krumm , Kerstin Hammernik , Daniel Rueckert , Sergios Gatidis , Thomas Küstner

X-ray is widely applied for transmission imaging due to its stronger penetration than natural light. When rendering novel view X-ray projections, existing methods mainly based on NeRF suffer from long training time and slow inference speed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Cai , Yixun Liang , Jiahao Wang , Angtian Wang , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

Recovering the 3D representation of an object from single-view or multi-view RGB images by deep neural networks has attracted increasing attention in the past few years. Several mainstream works (e.g., 3D-R2N2) use recurrent neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shangchen Zhou , Shengping Zhang

In this paper, we first propose a variational model for the limited-angle computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction and then convert the model into an end-to-end deep network.We use the penalty method to solve the model and divide it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used in interventional surgeries and radiation oncology. Due to the limited size of flat-panel detectors, anatomical structures might be missing outside the limited field-of-view (FOV), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yixing Huang , Fuxin Fan , Ahmed Gomaa , Andreas Maier , Rainer Fietkau , Christoph Bert , Florian Putz

For optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images, a limited scanning rate leads to a trade-off between field-of-view (FOV) and imaging resolution. Although larger FOV images may reveal more parafoveal vascular lesions, their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Weiwen Zhang , Dawei Yang , Haoxuan Che , An Ran Ran , Carol Y. Cheung , Hao Chen

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang