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Many clinical applications depend critically on the accurate differentiation and classification of different types of materials in patient anatomy. This work introduces a unified framework for accurate nonlinear material decomposition and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Wei Zhao , Don Vernekohl , Fei Han , Bin Han , Hao Peng , Lei Xing , James K Min

This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

Computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in clinical settings because it delivers detailed 3D images of the human body. However, performing CT scans is not always feasible due to radiation exposure and limitations in certain surgical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xuhui Liu , Zhi Qiao , Runkun Liu , Hong Li , Juan Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Zhen Qian , Baochang Zhang

Material decomposition in X-ray imaging uses the energy-dependence of attenuation to virtually decompose an object into specific constituent materials. X-ray phase contrast imaging is a developing technique that can enhance image contrast…

In a standard computed tomography (CT) image, pixels having the same Hounsfield Units (HU) can correspond to different materials and it is, therefore, challenging to differentiate and quantify materials. Dual-energy CT (DECT) is desirable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Wei Zhao , Tianling Lv , Peng Gao , Liyue Shen , Xianjin Dai , Kai Cheng , Mengyu Jia , Yang Chen , Lei Xing

In recent years, deep learning-based image compression, particularly through generative models, has emerged as a pivotal area of research. Despite significant advancements, challenges such as diminished sharpness and quality in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Ryugo Morita , Hitoshi Nishimura , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

Dual-energy imaging is a clinically well-established technique that offers several advantages over conventional X-ray imaging. By performing measurements with two distinct X-ray spectra, differences in energy-dependent attenuation are…

Increased noise is a general concern for dual-energy material decomposition. Here, we develop an image-domain material decomposition algorithm for dual-energy CT (DECT) by incorporating an edge-preserving filter into the Local HighlY…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Wei Zhao , Tianye Niu , Lei Xing , Yaoqin Xie , Guanglei Xiong , Kimberly Elmore , Jun Zhu , Luyao Wang , James K. Min

The diffusion-based text-to-image model harbors immense potential in transferring reference style. However, current encoder-based approaches significantly impair the text controllability of text-to-image models while transferring styles. In…

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We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang

Due to the high complexity and technical requirements of industrial production processes, surface defects will inevitably appear, which seriously affects the quality of products. Although existing lightweight detection networks are highly…

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By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

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Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Inferior soft-tissue contrast resolution is a major limitation of current CT scanners. The aim of the study is to improve the contrast resolution of CT scanners using dual-energy acquisition. Based on dual-energy material decomposition, the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wei Zhao , Lu Wan , Bo Zhang , Qiude Zhang , Tianye Niu

Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Runyi Li

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

One of the advantages of spectral computed tomography (CT) is it can achieve accurate material components using the material decomposition methods. The image-based material decomposition is a common method to obtain specific material…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Weiwen Wu , Peijun Chen , Vince Vardhanabhuti , Weifei Wu , Hengyong Yu

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used to obtain quantitative elemental composition of imaged subjects for personalized and precise medical diagnosis. Compared with existing high-end DECT leveraging advanced X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Qiaoxin Li , Dong Liang , Yinsheng Li

Denoising diffusion models have found applications in image segmentation by generating segmented masks conditioned on images. Existing studies predominantly focus on adjusting model architecture or improving inference, such as test-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Yunguan Fu , Yiwen Li , Shaheer U Saeed , Matthew J Clarkson , Yipeng Hu