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Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts received, PET image quality needs further improvements. The denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are distribution learning-based models, which try to transform a…

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Large high-quality medical image datasets are difficult to acquire but necessary for many deep learning applications. For positron emission tomography (PET), reconstructed image quality is limited by inherent Poisson noise. We propose a…

Removing noise from scanned pages is a vital step before their submission to the optical character recognition (OCR) system. Most available image denoising methods are supervised where the pairs of noisy/clean pages are required. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Mehrdad J Gangeh , Marcin Plata , Hamid Motahari , Nigel P Duffy

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for clinical diagnosis. As PET suffers from low resolution and high noise, numerous efforts try to incorporate anatomical priors into PET image reconstruction, especially with the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Nuobei Xie , Kuang Gong , Ning Guo , Zhixin Qin , Zhifang Wu , Huafeng Liu , Quanzheng Li

Dynamic computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging is a promising approach for acute ischemic stroke diagnosis and evaluation. Hemodynamic parametric maps of cerebral parenchyma are calculated from repeated CT scans of the first pass of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Dufan Wu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging requires accurate attenuation correction (AC) to account for photon loss due to tissue density variations. In PET/MR systems, computed tomography (CT), which offers a straightforward estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Weijie Chen , James Wang , Alan McMillan

Achieving high image quality for temporal frames in dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) is challenging due to the limited statistic especially for the short frames. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) is useful in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kuang Xiaodong , Li Bingxuan , Li Yuan , Rao Fan , Ma Gege , Xie Qingguo , Mok Greta S P , Liu Huafeng , Zhu Wentao

The quality of images captured by wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is key for doctors to diagnose diseases of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. However, there exist many low-quality endoscopic images due to the limited illumination and complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Shaofeng Zou , Mingzhu Long , Xuyang Wang , Xiang Xie , Guolin Li , Zhihua Wang

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

With the development of deep learning, medical image processing has been widely used to assist clinical research. This paper focuses on the denoising problem of low-dose computed tomography using deep learning. Although low-dose computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhilin Guan , Wei Zhang

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is widely used in a number of clinical applications, including cancer and Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, monitoring of disease development, and treatment effect evaluation. Statistical…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Akhil Ambekar , Robert Zielinski , Ani Eloyan

Recent advances in text-guided image compression have shown great potential to enhance the perceptual quality of reconstructed images. These methods, however, tend to have significantly degraded pixel-wise fidelity, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hagyeong Lee , Minkyu Kim , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Seungeon Kim , Dokwan Oh , Jaeho Lee

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…

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

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging technique, but the design and evaluation of new PET scanner technologies present significant challenges. The process is typically divided into three major stages: 1. detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-30 J. Renner , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. Soleti

Radiation exposure in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging limits its usage in the studies of radiation-sensitive populations, e.g., pregnant women, children, and adults that require longitudinal imaging. Reducing the PET radiotracer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Viswanath P. Sudarshan , Uddeshya Upadhyay , Gary F. Egan , Zhaolin Chen , Suyash P. Awate

To achieve disentangled image manipulation, previous works depend heavily on manual annotation. Meanwhile, the available manipulations are limited to a pre-defined set the models were trained for. We propose a novel framework, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zipeng Xu , Tianwei Lin , Hao Tang , Fu Li , Dongliang He , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Errui Ding

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

Positron emission tomography (PET) image denoising, along with lesion and organ segmentation, are critical steps in PET-aided diagnosis. However, existing methods typically treat these tasks independently, overlooking inherent synergies…

This paper reviewed the machine learning-based studies for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of machine learning-based methods in PET attenuation correction and low-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Tonghe Wang , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang