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The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

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Score-based generative modelling (SGM) has proven to be a very effective method for modelling densities on finite-dimensional spaces. In this work we propose to extend this methodology to learn generative models over functional spaces. To…

In the context of dynamic emission tomography, the conventional processing pipeline consists of independent image reconstruction of single time frames, followed by the application of a suitable kinetic model to time activity curves (TACs)…

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We consider the general problem of recovering a high-dimensional signal from noisy quantized measurements. Quantization, especially coarse quantization such as 1-bit sign measurements, leads to severe information loss and thus a good prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Xiangming Meng , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Accurate attenuation and scatter corrections are crucial in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for accurate visual interpretation and quantitative analysis. Traditional methods relying on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Min Jeong Cho , Hyeong Seok Shim , Sungyu Kim , Jae Sung Lee

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

The incorporation of generative models as regularisers within variational formulations for inverse problems has proven effective across numerous image reconstruction tasks. However, the resulting optimisation problem is often non-convex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Pascal Fernsel , Željko Kereta , Alexander Denker

Large segmentation foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have reshaped promptable segmentation in natural images, and recent efforts have extended these models to medical images and volumetric settings. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zixuan Tang , Shen Zhao

Over the past years, pseudo-healthy reconstruction for unsupervised anomaly detection has gained in popularity. This approach has the great advantage of not requiring tedious pixel-wise data annotation and offers possibility to generalize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Ravi Hassanaly , Camille Brianceau , Maëlys Solal , Olivier Colliot , Ninon Burgos

Image reconstruction of low-count positron emission tomography (PET) data is challenging. Kernel methods address the challenge by incorporating image prior information in the forward model of iterative PET image reconstruction. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Siqi Li , Kuang Gong , Ramsey D. Badawi , Edward J. Kim , Jinyi Qi , Guobao Wang

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

This paper presents a novel approach for learned synergistic reconstruction of medical images using multibranch generative models. Leveraging variational autoencoders (VAEs), our model learns from pairs of images simultaneously, enabling…

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Differentiable rendering has been widely adopted in computer graphics as a powerful approach to inverse problems, enabling efficient gradient-based optimization by differentiating the image formation process with respect to millions of…

Diffusion model has been successfully applied to MRI reconstruction, including single and multi-coil acquisition of MRI data. Simultaneous multi-slice imaging (SMS), as a method for accelerating MR acquisition, can significantly reduce…

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Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely utilized for cancer detection due to its ability to visualize functional and biological processes in vivo. PET images are usually reconstructed from histogrammed raw data (sinograms) using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging technique that enables high-resolution imaging over a large field of view. However, its application in the biomedical field has been limited due to the long image…

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Score-based generative models can effectively learn the distribution of data by estimating the gradient of the distribution. Due to the multi-step denoising characteristic, researchers have recently considered combining score-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Changyuan Zhao , Hongyang Du , Guangyuan Liu , Dusit Niyato

Real-time 3D reconstruction of surgical scenes plays a vital role in computer-assisted surgery, holding a promise to enhance surgeons' visibility. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown great potential for real-time…

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This paper presents a novel image reconstruction pipeline for three-gamma (3-{\gamma}) positron emission tomography (PET) aimed at improving spatial resolution and reducing noise in nuclear medicine; the proposed Direct3{\gamma} pipeline…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Youness Mellak , Alexandre Bousse , Thibaut Merlin , Debora Giovagnoli , Dimitris Visvikis