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Capturing images is a key part of automation for high-level tasks such as scene text recognition. Low-light conditions pose a challenge for high-level perception stacks, which are often optimized on well-lit, artifact-free images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Cindy M. Nguyen , Eric R. Chan , Alexander W. Bergman , Gordon Wetzstein

Objective: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a low-dose imaging alternative to conventional CT, but suffers from noise, scatter, and artifacts that degrade image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) aims to translate CBCT to high-quality…

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Robustness of deep learning methods for limited angle tomography is challenged by two major factors: a) due to insufficient training data the network may not generalize well to unseen data; b) deep learning methods are sensitive to noise.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Guenter Lauritsch , Michael Manhart , Xiaolin Huang , Andreas Maier

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pascal Peter , Karl Schrader , Tobias Alt , Joachim Weickert

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, which can effectively alleviate the radiation problem, will degrade the imaging quality. In this paper, we propose a novel LDCT reconstruction network that unrolls the iterative scheme and performs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yongqiang Huang , Zuoqiang Shi , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Yang Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy for image-guided treatment, improving setup accuracy, adaptive planning, and motion management. However, slow gantry rotation limits performance by introducing motion artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuan Gao , Shaoyan Pan , Mingzhe Hu , Huiqiao Xie , Jill Remick , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Zhen Tian , Xiaofeng Yang

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

The clinical application of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is constrained by the inherent trade-off between radiation exposure and image quality. Ultra-sparse angular sampling, employed to reduce dose, introduces severe undersampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junlin Wang , Jiancheng Fang , Peng Peng , Shaoyu Wang , Qiegen Liu

Low-dose PET imaging is crucial for reducing patient radiation exposure but faces challenges like noise interference, reduced contrast, and difficulty in preserving physiological details. Existing methods often neglect both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mengxiao Geng , Ran Hong , Xiaoling Xu , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

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

The exponential surge in high-resolution remote sensing data faces a severe bottleneck in satellite-to-ground transmission. Limited downlink bandwidth forces the use of extreme high-ratio compression, which irreversibly destroys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yun Li , Xianju Li

Diffusion-based sparse-view CT (SVCT) imaging has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to its more stable generative capability. However, recovering reliable image content and visually consistent textures is still a…

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Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, and early detection is crucial for reducing its mortality rate and improving quality of life. Dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) scanners offer better image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Wenjun Xia , Hsin Wu Tseng , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Srinivasan Vedantham , Ge Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for solving inverse problems due to their exceptional ability to model complex prior distributions. However, existing methods predominantly assume known forward operators (i.e., non-blind),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Weimin Bai , Siyi Chen , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Single LDR to HDR reconstruction remains challenging for over-exposed regions where traditional methods often fail due to complete information loss. We present a training-free approach that enhances existing indirect and direct HDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yo-Tin Lin , Su-Kai Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yen-Yu Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Medical image segmentation models struggle with rare abnormalities due to scarce annotated pathological data. We propose DiffAug a novel framework that combines textguided diffusion-based generation with automatic segmentation validation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Francesco Setti

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used in image-guided radiotherapy. Reconstructing CBCTs from limited-angle acquisitions (LA-CBCT) is highly desired for improved imaging efficiency, dose reduction, and better mechanical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jiacheng Xie , Hua-Chieh Shao , Yunxiang Li , You Zhang

In recent years inpainting-based compression methods have been shown to be a viable alternative to classical codecs such as JPEG and JPEG2000. Unlike transform-based codecs, which store coefficients in the transform domain, inpainting-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Niklas Kämper , Vassillen Chizhov , Joachim Weickert