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PURPOSE: Real-time assessment of ventricular volumes requires high acceleration factors. Residual convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown potential for removing artifacts caused by data undersampling. In this study we investigated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Felix Lucka , Vivek Muthurangu , Jennifer A. Steeden

X-ray diffraction microscopy (XDM) is a new form of x-ray imaging that is being practiced at several third-generation synchrotron-radiation x-ray facilities. Although only five years have elapsed since the technique was first introduced, it…

Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) improves accessibility and reduces costs but generally has lower signal-to-noise ratios and degraded contrast compared to high field (HF) MRI, limiting its clinical utility. Simulating LF MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Ziqi Gao , Nicha Dvornek , Xiaoran Zhang , Gigi Galiana , Hemant Tagare , Todd Constable

Computed tomography (CT) has been used worldwide as a non-invasive test to assist in diagnosis. However, the ionizing nature of X-ray exposure raises concerns about potential health risks such as cancer. The desire for lower radiation doses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Yucheng Lu , Zhixin Xu , Moon Hyung Choi , Jimin Kim , Seung-Won Jung

Artifacts pose a significant challenge in medical imaging, impacting diagnostic accuracy and downstream analysis. While image-based approaches for detecting artifacts can be effective, they often rely on preprocessing methods that can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Caner Özer , Patryk Rygiel , Bram de Wilde , İlkay Öksüz , Jelmer M. Wolterink

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

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

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is widely used to reduce radiation exposure to mitigate high exposure side effects, but often suffers from noise and artifacts that affect diagnostic accuracy. To tackle this issue, deep learning models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Taifour Yousra , Beghdadi Azeddine , Marie Luong , Zuheng Ming

Radiative transfer coupled with highly realistic simulations of the solar atmosphere is routinely used to infer the physical properties underlying solar observations. Due to its computational efficiency, the method of short-characteristics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 Courtney L. Peck , Serena Criscuoli , Mark P. Rast

Based on a plane-wave expansion of the observation data in quasi-planar multi-static scattering scenarios, an improved formalism for image creation utilizing back-projection in the spatial domain is derived. The underlying integral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Matthias M. Saurer , Marius Brinkmann , Han Na , Quanfeng Wang , Thomas Eibert

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

In this paper, we present a new method to generate an instantaneous volumetric image using a single x-ray projection. To fully extract motion information hidden in projection images, we partitioned a projection image into small patches. We…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yuan Xu , Hao Yan , Luo Ouyang , Jing Wang , Linghong Zhou , Laura Cervino , Steve B. Jiang , Xun Jia

Phase-contrast and dark-field imaging are relatively new X-ray imaging modalities that provide additional information to conventional attenuation-based imaging. However, this new information comes at the price of a more complex acquisition…

Several variants of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have significantly improved the accuracy of synthesized images and surface reconstruction of 3D scenes/objects. In all of these methods, a key characteristic is that none can train the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gonçalo Dias Pais , Valter Piedade , Moitreya Chatterjee , Marcus Greiff , Pedro Miraldo

This paper proposes a visual-servoing method dedicated to grasping of daily-life objects. In order to obtain an affordable solution, we use a low-accurate robotic arm. Our method corrects errors by using an RGB-D sensor. It is based on SURF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Ludovic Hofer , Michio Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh , Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei , Takashi Morie

Purpose: In conventional fluoroscopy-guided interventions, the 2D projective nature of X-ray imaging limits depth perception and leads to prolonged radiation exposure. Virtual fluoroscopy, combined with spatially tracked surgical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Shuwei Xing , Inaara Ahmed-Fazal , Utsav Pardasani , Uditha Jayarathne , Scott Illsley , Aaron Fenster , Terry M. Peters , Elvis C. S. Chen

Digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) are simulated 2D X-ray images generated from 3D CT volumes, widely used in preoperative settings but limited in intraoperative applications due to computational bottlenecks, especially for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Xiao Chen , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

X-ray dark-field radiography provides complementary diagnostic information to conventional attenuation imaging by visualizing microstructural tissue changes through small-angle scattering. However, the limited availability of such data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Lina Felsner , Henriette Bast , Tina Dorosti , Florian Schaff , Franz Pfeiffer , Daniela Pfeiffer , Julia Schnabel

Deep learning-based automated diagnosis of lung cancer has emerged as a crucial advancement that enables healthcare professionals to detect and initiate treatment earlier. However, these models require extensive training datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aryan Goyal , Ashish Mittal , Pranav Rao , Manoj Tadepalli , Preetham Putha