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Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a cost-effective alternative for medical imaging in resource-limited settings. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by two key challenges: prolonged scan times and reduced image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed Abdalla , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Healthcare industries face challenges when experiencing rare diseases due to limited samples. Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities overcome this situation to create synthetic data which is an ethical and privacy issue in the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Al Amin , Kamrul Hasan , Saleh Zein-Sabatto , Liang Hong , Sachin Shetty , Imtiaz Ahmed , Tariqul Islam

Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) has been shown to be a powerful technique for the non-invasive imaging of high-shielded objects. We present here the application of the MST technique to investigate two types of nuclear waste packages, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-13 A. F. Alrheli , D. Barker , C. De Sio , D. Kikoła , A. K. Kopp , M. Mhaidra , J. P. Stowell , L. F. Thompson , J. J. Velthuis , M. J. Weekes

Recent research has explored using neural networks to reconstruct undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Because of the complexity of the artifacts in the reconstructed images, there is a need to develop task-based approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Joshua D. Herman , Rachel E. Roca , Alexandra G. O'Neill , Marcus L. Wong , Sajan G. Lingala , Angel R. Pineda

Two-photon excitation fluorescence (2PEF) allows imaging of tissue up to about one millimeter in thickness. Typically, reducing fluorescence excitation exposure reduces the quality of the image. However, using deep learning super resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Stephen McAleer , Alex Fast , Yuntian Xue , Magdalene Seiler , William Tang , Mihaela Balu , Pierre Baldi , Andrew W. Browne

Automated medical image segmentation can assist doctors to diagnose faster and more accurate. Deep learning based models for medical image segmentation have made great progress in recent years. However, the existing models fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Lei Shi , Tianyu Gao , Zheng Zhang , Junxing Zhang

Decreasing projection views to lower X-ray radiation dose usually leads to severe streak artifacts. To improve image quality from sparse-view data, a Multi-domain Integrative Swin Transformer network (MIST-net) was developed in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Jiayi Pan , Heye Zhang , Weifei Wu , Zhifan Gao , Weiwen Wu

Among numerous applications of muon tomography, deployment in civil structures has caught attraction of many recently. In this work, the appropriateness of muon scattering tomography to detect defects in concrete structures has been studied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-23 Sridhar Tripathy , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Muon tomography (MT), based on atmospheric cosmic rays, is a promising technique suitable for nondestructive imaging of the internal structures of mountains. This method uses the measured flux distribution after attenuation, combined with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-27 Bin Zhang , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

Muography is a non-invasive imaging technique that exploits cosmic-ray muons to probe various targets by analyzing the absorption or scattering of muons. The method is particularly useful for applications ranging from geophysical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Hamid Basiri , Tadahiro Kin , Eduardo Cortina Gil , Andrea Giammanco

This paper applies the recent fast iterative neural network framework, Momentum-Net, using appropriate models to low-dose X-ray computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction. At each layer of the proposed Momentum-Net, the model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Il Yong Chun

Imaging under photon-scarce situations introduces challenges to many applications as the captured images are with low signal-to-noise ratio and poor luminance. In this paper, we investigate the raw image restoration under low-photon-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Shansi Zhang , Edmund Y. Lam

In image fusion tasks, images obtained from different sources exhibit distinct properties. Consequently, treating them uniformly with a single-branch network can lead to inadequate feature extraction. Additionally, numerous works have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Siran Peng , Chenhao Guo , Xiao Wu , Liang-Jian Deng

Spectral image reconstruction is an important task in snapshot compressed imaging. This paper aims to propose a new end-to-end framework with iterative capabilities similar to a deep unfolding network to improve reconstruction accuracy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zeyu Cai , Jian Yu , Ziyu Zhang , Chengqian Jin , Feipeng Da

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used medical imaging technique to scan internal structures of a body, typically involving collimation and mechanical rotation. Compton scatter tomography (CST) presents an interesting alternative to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Ishak Ayad , Cécilia Tarpau , Javier Cebeiro , Maï K. Nguyen

In this work, we propose a special cascade network for image segmentation, which is based on the U-Net networks as building blocks and the idea of the iterative refinement. The model was mainly applied to achieve higher recognition quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Artem Sevastopolsky , Stepan Drapak , Konstantin Kiselev , Blake M. Snyder , Jeremy D. Keenan , Anastasia Georgievskaya

We present results from a detailed GEANT4 simulation of a proposed Muon Tomography System that employs compact Micro Pattern Gas Detectors with high spatial resolution. A basic Point-Of-Closest-Approach algorithm is applied to reconstructed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Kondo Gnanvo , Patrick Ford , Jennifer Helsby , Richie Hoch , Debasis Mitra , Marcus Hohlmann

Background: We aimed at improving image quality (IQ) of sparse-view computed tomography (CT) images using a U-Net for lung metastasis detection and determining the best tradeoff between number of views, IQ, and diagnostic confidence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Annika Ries , Tina Dorosti , Johannes Thalhammer , Daniel Sasse , Andreas Sauter , Felix Meurer , Ashley Benne , Tobias Lasser , Franz Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff , Daniela Pfeiffer

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed tissue information, but its clinical application is limited by long acquisition time, high cost, and restricted resolution. Image translation has recently gained attention as a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xihe Qiu , Yang Dai , Xiaoyu Tan , Sijia Li , Fenghao Sun , Lu Gan , Liang Liu