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Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) excel in zero-shot segmentation for natural images but struggle with medical image segmentation due to differences in texture, contrast, and noise. Annotating medical images is costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Keerthi Sravan Ravi , Gopal Avinash , Ravi Soni

Deformable image registration between Computed Tomography (CT) images and Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is essential for many image-guided therapies. In this paper, we propose a novel translation-based unsupervised deformable image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Zhe Xu , Jie Luo , Jiangpeng Yan , Ritvik Pulya , Xiu Li , William Wells , Jayender Jagadeesan

Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) shows great potential for automating implant reconstruction in brachytherapy. One of the challenges of this technology is that it does not intrinsically share the same reference frame as the patient's medical…

We propose a new variational model for joint image reconstruction and motion estimation in spatiotemporal imaging, which is investigated along a general framework that we present with shape theory. This model consists of two components, one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Chong Chen , Barbara Gris , Ozan Öktem

Registration of images with pathologies is challenging due to tissue appearance changes and missing correspondences caused by the pathologies. Moreover, mass effects as observed for brain tumors may displace tissue, creating larger…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Xu Han , Zhengyang Shen , Zhenlin Xu , Spyridon Bakas , Hamed Akbari , Michel Bilello , Christos Davatzikos , Marc Niethammer

We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Mengqi Lou , Kabir Aladin Verchand , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Ashwin Pananjady

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging modality for breast imaging. Image reconstruction methods that incorporate accurate wave physics produce high resolution quantitative images of acoustic properties but are computationally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Luke Lozenski , Hanchen Wang , Fu Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin , Umberto Villa

4D medical images, which represent 3D images with temporal information, are crucial in clinical practice for capturing dynamic changes and monitoring long-term disease progression. However, acquiring 4D medical images poses challenges due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 JungEun Kim , Hangyul Yoon , Geondo Park , Kyungsu Kim , Eunho Yang

Respiration-correlated CBCT, commonly called 4DCBCT, provide respiratory phase-resolved CBCT images. In many clinical applications, it is more preferable to reconstruct true 4DCBCT with the 4th dimension being time, i.e., each CBCT image is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Jian-Feng Cai , Xun Jia , Hao Gao , Steve B. Jiang , Zuowei Shen , Hongkai Zhao

Classical pairwise image registration methods search for a spatial transformation that optimises a numerical measure that indicates how well a pair of moving and fixed images are aligned. Current learning-based registration methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Yipeng Hu , Eli Gibson , Dean C. Barratt , Mark Emberton , J. Alison Noble , Tom Vercauteren

Recent progress in neural implicit functions has set new state-of-the-art in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D shapes from a collection of images. However, these approaches are limited to closed surfaces as they require the surface to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xiaoxu Meng , Weikai Chen , Bo Yang

Limited capture range, and the requirement to provide high quality initialization for optimization-based 2D/3D image registration methods, can significantly degrade the performance of 3D image reconstruction and motion compensation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Benjamin Hou , Bishesh Khanal , Amir Alansary , Steven McDonagh , Alice Davidson , Mary Rutherford , Jo V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker , Bernhard Kainz

3-D image registration, which involves aligning two or more images, is a critical step in a variety of medical applications from diagnosis to therapy. Image registration is commonly performed by optimizing an image matching metric as a cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Rui Liao , Shun Miao , Pierre de Tournemire , Sasa Grbic , Ali Kamen , Tommaso Mansi , Dorin Comaniciu

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in diagnosing and staging abdominal diseases due to its lack of non-ionizing radiation and prevalent availability. However, significant inter-operator variability and inconsistent image acquisition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Marco Esposito , Nassir Navab

In this paper, we consider the problem of feature reconstruction from incomplete x-ray CT data. Such problems occurs, e.g., as a result of dose reduction in the context medical imaging. Since image reconstruction from incomplete data is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Simon Göppel , Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier

Project ILATO focuses on Improving Limited Angle computed Tomography by Optical data integration in order to enhance image quality and shorten acquisition times in X-ray based industrial quality inspection. Limited angle computed tomography…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Andreas Beyer , Hubert Mara , Susanne Krömker

Image Registration is the process of aligning two or more images of the same scene with reference to a particular image. The images are captured from various sensors at different times and at multiple view-points. Thus to get a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Sayan Nag

Objectives: Computerized phantoms play an essential role in various applications of medical imaging research. Although the existing computerized phantoms can model anatomical variations through organ and phantom scaling, this does not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Junyu Chen , Ye Li , Yong Du , Eric C. Frey

Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…