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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of modern radiology. The ability to detect cancer and metastases in whole body scans fundamentally changed cancer diagnosis and treatment. One of the main bottlenecks in the clinical…

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Kernelized maximum-likelihood (ML) expectation maximization (EM) methods have recently gained prominence in PET image reconstruction, outperforming many previous state-of-the-art methods. But they are not immune to the problems of…

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Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important functional medical imaging technique often used in the evaluation of certain brain disorders, whose reconstruction problem is ill-posed. The vast majority of reconstruction methods in PET…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Tin Vlašić , Tomislav Matulić , Damir Seršić

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Medical image reconstruction with pre-trained score-based generative models (SGMs) has advantages over other existing state-of-the-art deep-learned reconstruction methods, including improved resilience to different scanner setups and…

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinical diagnosis. However, its long acquisition time remains a critical issue. Parallel imaging (PI) is a common approach to reduce acquisition time by periodically skipping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hao Li , Yusheng Zhou , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lyu , Weidong Cai , Wei Chen

We report a study of the original image reconstruction algorithm based on the time-of-flight maximum likelihood expectation maximisation (TOF MLEM), developed for the total-body (TB) Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanners. The method is…

Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSEL)'s inverse design demands expert knowledge in physics, materials science, and quantum mechanics which is prohibitively labor-intensive. Advanced AI technologies, especially reinforcement…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Ceyao Zhang , Renjie Li , Cheng Zhang , Zhaoyu Zhang , Feng Yin

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

Diffusion models have shown great promise in medical image denoising and reconstruction, but their application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging remains limited by tracer-specific contrast variability and high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Fumio Hashimoto , Kuang Gong

Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reduces scan time but often degrades image quality. While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) show promise for MRI reconstruction, they struggle at high acceleration factors due to weak prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Eytan Kats , Mattias P. Heinrich

Anatomically guided PET reconstruction using MRI information has been shown to have the potential to improve PET image quality. However, these improvements are limited to PET scans with paired MRI information. In this work we employed a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Weijie Gan , Huidong Xie , Carl von Gall , Günther Platsch , Michael T. Jurkiewicz , Andrea Andrade , Udunna C. Anazodo , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hongyu An , Jorge Cabello

Simultaneous functional PET/MR (sf-PET/MR) presents a cutting-edge multimodal neuroimaging technique. It provides an unprecedented opportunity for concurrently monitoring and integrating multifaceted brain networks built by spatiotemporally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Luoyu Wang , Yitian Tao , Qing Yang , Yan Liang , Siwei Liu , Hongcheng Shi , Dinggang Shen , Han Zhang

Positron emission tomography(PET) image reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers from high level of noise due to limited counts received. Recently deep neural networks especially convolutional neural networks(CNN) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Rui Hu , Huafeng Liu

Image reconstruction for positron emission tomography (PET) is challenging because of the ill-conditioned tomographic problem and low counting statistics. Kernel methods address this challenge by using kernel representation to incorporate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

We present Large Inverse Rendering Model (LIRM), a transformer architecture that jointly reconstructs high-quality shape, materials, and radiance fields with view-dependent effects in less than a second. Our model builds upon the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhengqin Li , Dilin Wang , Ka Chen , Zhaoyang Lv , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Milim Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Lei Xiao , Cheng Zhang , Yufeng Zhu , Carl S. Marshall , Yufeng Ren , Richard Newcombe , Zhao Dong

Inverse rendering aims to estimate physical attributes of a scene, e.g., reflectance, geometry, and lighting, from image(s). Inverse rendering has been studied primarily for single objects or with methods that solve for only one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Soumyadip Sengupta , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Guilin Liu , David W. Jacobs , Jan Kautz

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Introduction: We describe the foundation of PETRIC, an image reconstruction challenge to minimise the computational runtime of related algorithms for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Purpose: Although several similar challenges are…