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We propose a general learning based framework for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex image reconstruction problems. We model the regularization function as the composition of the $l_{2,1}$ norm and a smooth but nonconvex feature mapping…

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Radiation-induced acoustic (RA) imaging is a promising technique for visualizing radiation energy deposition in tissues, enabling new imaging modalities and real-time therapy monitoring. However, it requires measuring hundreds or even…

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Recently, data-driven techniques have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in addressing challenges related to MR imaging inverse problems. However, these methods still exhibit certain limitations in terms of interpretability and…

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Deep learning (DL) techniques have been extensively employed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, delivering notable performance enhancements over traditional non-DL methods. Nonetheless, recent studies have identified…

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Variations of deep neural networks such as convolutional neural network (CNN) have been successfully applied to image denoising. The goal is to automatically learn a mapping from a noisy image to a clean image given training data consisting…

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