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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

Low-dose CT (LDCT) denoising remains an important yet challenging problem in medical imaging. Although recent learning-based methods have shown promising performance, those optimized using classical pixel-level objectives often produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jianxu Wang , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

Ultra-high resolution images are desirable in photon counting CT (PCCT), but resolution is physically limited by interactions such as charge sharing. Deep learning is a possible method for super-resolution (SR), but sourcing paired training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Christopher Wiedeman , Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Bruno De Man , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

During raw-data acquisition in CT imaging, diverse factors can degrade the collected sinograms, with undersampling and noise leading to severe artifacts and noise in reconstructed images and compromising diagnostic accuracy. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingyu Ai , Shaoyu Wang , Zhiyuan Jia , Ao Xu , Hongming Shan , Jianhua Ma , Qiegen Liu

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

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Senmao Li , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Chun-Le Guo , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Text-guided diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in object inpainting by providing high-level semantic guidance through text prompts. However, they often lack precise pixel-level spatial control, especially in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yongle Zhang , Yimin Liu , Yan Huang , Qiang Wu

Diffusion models have recently been shown to excel in many image reconstruction tasks that involve inverse problems based on a forward measurement operator. A common framework uses task-agnostic unconditional models that are later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Alper Güngör , Bahri Batuhan Bilecen , Tolga Çukur

Brain signal visualization has emerged as an active research area, serving as a critical interface between the human visual system and computer vision models. Although diffusion models have shown promise in analyzing functional magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bohan Zeng , Shanglin Li , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Xiaolong Jiang , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is a practical solution to reduce radiation dose, but the resulting ill-posed inverse problem poses significant challenges for accurate image reconstruction. Although deep learning and diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Changsheng Fang , Yongtong Liu , Bahareh Morovati , Shuo Han , Yu Shi , Li Zhou , Shuyi Fan , Hengyong Yu

Seismic imaging from sparsely acquired data faces challenges such as low image quality, discontinuities, and migration swing artifacts. Existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods struggle with complex feature distributions…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Xingchen Shi , Shijun Cheng , Weijian Mao , Wei Ouyang

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment planning; however, concerns about ionizing radiation exposure drive efforts to optimize image quality at lower doses. This study introduces Poisson Flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Dennis Hein , Grant Stevens , Adam Wang , Ge Wang

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenging due to undersampling, leading to an ill-posed inverse problem. Traditional iterative methods incorporate handcrafted or learned priors to regularize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Leon Suarez-Rodriguez , Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdron-Hurtado , Ana Mantilla-Dulcey , Henry Arguello

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) offers improved temporal resolution and reduced radiation dose for cardiac imaging, but suffers from severe artifacts due to truncated projections. To address the ill-posedness of LACT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yu Shi , Shuyi Fan , Changsheng Fang , Shuo Han , Haodong Li , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Dayang Wang , Hengyong Yu

This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

Infrared imaging offers resilience against changing lighting conditions by capturing object temperatures. Yet, in few scenarios, its lack of visual details compared to daytime visible images, poses a significant challenge for human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anh-Dzung Doan , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Surabhi Gupta , Markus Wagner , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

Limited data and low dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms which lead to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years sinogram denoising has become an essential pre-processing step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Pierre Vandergheynst , Ulf Skoglund
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