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Medical imaging plays a significant role in detecting and treating various diseases. However, these images often happen to be of too poor quality, leading to decreased efficiency, extra expenses, and even incorrect diagnoses. Therefore, we…

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The variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is a popular option for training unsupervised generative models, featuring ease of training and latent representation of data. The objective function of VAE does not guarantee to achieve the…

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We introduce a new CT image reconstruction algorithm that is less affected by various artifacts. The new reconstruction algorithm is a method of minimizing the difference between synchrotron X-ray tomography data and sinograms generated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Byung Chun Kim , Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Computed Tomography (CT) is pivotal in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. Sparse-view CT, offering reduced ionizing radiation, faces challenges due to its under-sampled nature, leading to ill-posed reconstruction problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiayang Shi , Junyi Zhu , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg , Matthew B. Blaschko

Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods for the generation of synthetic computed tomography (sCT) have received significant research attention as an alternative to classical ones. We present here a systematic review of these methods by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Maria Francesca Spadea , Matteo Maspero , Paolo Zaffino , Joao Seco

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important modality for diagnosing diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease, capable of revealing the uptake of radiolabeled molecules that target specific pathological markers of the diseases.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Hsin-Hsiung Huang , Zheyuan Zhu , Slun Booppasiri , Zhuo Chen , Shuo Pang , Chien-Min Kao

This paper is concerned with the development, analysis and numerical realization of a novel variational model for the regularization of inverse problems in imaging. The proposed model is inspired by the architecture of generative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Andreas Habring , Martin Holler

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a classical imaging technique to reconstruct the mass distribution of a radioactive material. If the mass distribution is static, this essentially leads to inversion of the X-ray transform. However, if…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Marco Mauritz , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We present a novel method that integrates subspace modeling with an adaptive generative image prior for high-dimensional MR image reconstruction. The subspace model imposes an explicit low-dimensional representation of the high-dimensional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Ruiyang Zhao , Xi Peng , Varun A. Kelkar , Mark A. Anastasio , Fan Lam

Automatically generating one medical imaging modality from another is known as medical image translation, and has numerous interesting applications. This paper presents an interpretable generative modelling approach to medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Mikael Brudfors , John Ashburner , Parashkev Nachev , Yael Balbastre

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an advanced medical imaging technique that plays a crucial role in non-invasive clinical diagnosis. However, while reducing radiation exposure through low-dose PET scans is beneficial for patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Bin Huang , Xubiao Liu , Lei Fang , Qiegen Liu , Bingxuan Li

Multishot Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a promising imaging modality that can produce a high-resolution image with relatively less data acquisition time. The downside of multishot MRI is that it is very sensitive to subject motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Muhammad Usman , Muhammad Umar Farooq , Siddique Latif , Muhammad Asim , Junaid Qadir

Positron emission tomography (PET) offers powerful functional imaging but involves radiation exposure. Efforts to reduce this exposure by lowering the radiotracer dose or scan time can degrade image quality. While using magnetic resonance…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which can be used to investigate chemical changes in human biological processes such as cancer development or neurochemical reactions. Most dynamic PET scans are currently analyzed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-11 Ci-Ren Jiang , John A D Aston , Jane-Ling Wang

The insufficiency of annotated medical imaging scans for cancer makes it challenging to train and validate data-hungry deep learning models in precision oncology. We propose a new richer generative adversarial network for free-form 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Qiangguo Jin , Hui Cui , Changming Sun , Zhaopeng Meng , Ran Su

Providing more precise tissue attenuation information, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to improved radiation therapy treatment planning. In our study, we employ the advanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Fuxin Fan , Jingna Qiu , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

Positron emission tomography(PET) image reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers from high level of noise due to limited counts received. Recently deep neural networks especially convolutional neural networks(CNN) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Rui Hu , Huafeng Liu

Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yida Wang , Weihong Deng

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

Stochastic-sampling-based Generative Neural Networks, such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Generative Adversarial Networks, are now used for applications such as denoising, image occlusion removal, pattern completion, and motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alexander Potapov , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Alexander Cloninger , Srinjoy Das