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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic tool that provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without the use of ionizing radiation. Compared to other clinical imaging modalities (e.g., CT or ultrasound), however, the data…

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This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

Sparse views X-ray computed tomography has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. Because of the reduced number of projection views, traditional reconstruction methods can lead to severe artifacts. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Guang Yang , Daoqiang Zhang

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into optimization algorithms. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) have recently demonstrated strong generative performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chicago Y. Park , Edward P. Chandler , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The utilisation of Plug-and-Play (PnP) priors in inverse problems has become increasingly prominent in recent years. This preference is based on the mathematical equivalence between the general proximal operator and the regularised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yanqi Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhenda Shen , Shujun Wang , Lequan Yu , Raymond H. Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

This paper introduces a stochastic plug-and-play (PnP) sampling algorithm that leverages variable splitting to efficiently sample from a posterior distribution. The algorithm based on split Gibbs sampling (SGS) draws inspiration from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-24 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

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

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Benfenati

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a methodology for regularized image reconstruction that specifies the prior through an image denoiser. While PnP algorithms are well understood for denoisers performing maximum a posteriori probability (MAP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Xiaojian Xu , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Since the various MR contrasts of a given anatomy contain redundant information, one contrast can be used to guide the reconstruction of another undersampled contrast acquired subsequently in the same session. To solve this reconstruction…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality that enables the visualization of biochemical and physiological processes across various tissues. Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods have demonstrated significant…

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Bayesian methods to solve imaging inverse problems usually combine an explicit data likelihood function with a prior distribution that explicitly models expected properties of the solution. Many kinds of priors have been explored in the…

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Uncertainty quantification is crucial to inverse problems, as it could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the inversion results. For example, seismic inversion is a notoriously ill-posed inverse problem due to the…

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Non-uniqueness and instability are characteristic features of image reconstruction processes. As a result, it is necessary to develop regularization methods that can be used to compute reliable approximate solutions. A regularization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Andrea Ebner , Markus Haltmeier

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is pivotal in corneal imaging for both surgical planning and diagnosis. However, high-speed acquisitions often degrade spatial resolution and increase speckle noise, posing challenges for accurate…

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Diffusion and Poisson flow models have shown impressive performance in a wide range of generative tasks, including low-dose CT image denoising. However, one limitation in general, and for clinical applications in particular, is slow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Dennis Hein , Staffan Holmin , Timothy Szczykutowicz , Jonathan S Maltz , Mats Danielsson , Ge Wang , Mats Persson

Achieving high-quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction at accelerated acquisition rates remains challenging due to the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. Traditional Compressed Sensing (CS) methods, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Pierre-Antoine Comby , Benjamin Lapostolle , Matthieu Terris , Philippe Ciuciu

We study the problem of posterior sampling in discrete-state spaces using discrete diffusion models. While posterior sampling methods for continuous diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress, analogous methods for discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenda Chu , Zihui Wu , Yifan Chen , Yang Song , Yisong Yue

The plug-and-play (PnP) method uses a deep denoiser within a proximal algorithm for model-based image reconstruction (IR). Unlike end-to-end IR, PnP allows the same pretrained denoiser to be used across different imaging tasks, without the…

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