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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) are essential for diagnosing, staging, and monitoring various diseases, particularly cancer. Despite their importance, the use of PET/CT systems is limited by the necessity for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Dac Thai Nguyen , Trung Thanh Nguyen , Huu Tien Nguyen , Thanh Trung Nguyen , Huy Hieu Pham , Thanh Hung Nguyen , Thao Nguyen Truong , Phi Le Nguyen

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

Diffusion Posterior Sampling(DPS) methodology is a novel framework that permits nonlinear CT reconstruction by integrating a diffusion prior and an analytic physical system model, allowing for one-time training for different applications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xiao Jiang , Shudong Li , Peiqing Teng , Grace Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Diffusion models have recently enabled state-of-the-art reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) images while requiring only image training data. However, domain shift remains a key concern for clinical adoption: priors trained…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bin Huang , Binzhong He , Yanhan Chen , Zhili Liu , Xinyue Wang , Binxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Single-bed whole-body positron emission tomography based on resistive plate chamber detectors (RPC-PET) has been proposed for human studies, as a complementary resource to scintillator-based PET scanners. The purpose of this work is mainly…

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Huidong Xie , Weijie Gan , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Liang Guo , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Ge Wang , Chi Liu

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a critical challenge in molecular imaging, often hampered by noise amplification, structural blurring, and detail loss due to sparse sampling and the ill-posed nature of inverse problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mengxiao Geng , Zijie Chen , Ran Hong , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

This paper develops a method of biologically guided deep learning for post-radiation FDG-PET image outcome prediction based on pre-radiation images and radiotherapy dose information. Based on the classic reaction-diffusion mechanism, a…

PET imaging is widely employed for observing biological metabolic activities within the human body. However, numerous benign conditions can cause increased uptake of radiopharmaceuticals, confounding differentiation from malignant tumors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ran Hong , Yuxia Huang , Lei Liu , Zhonghui Wu , Bingxuan Li , Xuemei Wang , Qiegen Liu

Reconstruction of PET images is an ill-posed inverse problem and often requires iterative algorithms to achieve good image quality for reliable clinical use in practice, at huge computational costs. In this paper, we consider the PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jieqing Jiao , Sebastien Ourselin

Differential phase-contrast computed tomography (DPC-CT) is a powerful analysis tool for soft-tissue and low-atomic-number samples. Limited by the implementation conditions, DPC-CT with incomplete projections happens quite often.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jianbing Dong , Jian Fu , Zhao He

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 tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

We investigate subset-based optimization methods for positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction incorporating a regularizing prior. PET reconstruction methods that use a prior, such as the relative difference prior (RDP), are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Zeljko Kereta , Georg Schramm

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Uncompressed clinical data from modern positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are very large, exceeding 350 million data points (projection bins). The last decades have seen tremendous advancements in mathematical imaging tools many of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Pawel Markiewicz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb