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A standard dose of radioactive tracer must be delivered into the patients body to obtain high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images for diagnostic purposes, which raises the risk of radiation harm. A reduced tracer dose, on the…
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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…
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Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational…
Subject-specific modeling is a powerful tool in cardiovascular research, providing insights beyond the reach of current clinical diagnostics. Limitations in available clinical data require the incorporation of uncertainty into models to…
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Deep learning-based cardiac segmentation has seen significant advancements over the years. Many studies have tackled the challenge of anatomically incorrect segmentation predictions by introducing auxiliary modules. These modules either…
This paper presents a novel approach to improving autonomous vehicle control in environments lacking clear road markings by integrating a diffusion-based motion predictor within an Active Inference Framework (AIF). Using a simulated parking…
Autonomous racing is a critical research area for autonomous driving, presenting significant challenges in vehicle dynamics modeling, such as balancing model precision and computational efficiency at high speeds (>280km/h), where minor…
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Deformable image registration plays a fundamental role in medical image analysis by enabling spatial alignment of anatomical structures across subjects. While recent deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved computational…
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Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death, and its adverse outcomes are urgent to predict. Yet ECG-based prognostic models underperform because deep learning requires large, labelled datasets, which are scarce in medicine.…
Automatic analysis of spatio-temporal microscopy images is inevitable for state-of-the-art research in the life sciences. Recent developments in deep learning provide powerful tools for automatic analyses of such image data, but heavily…
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