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Uncertainty estimation in machine learning is paramount for enhancing the reliability and interpretability of predictive models, especially in high-stakes real-world scenarios. Despite the availability of numerous methods, they often pose a…

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U-net is an image segmentation technique developed primarily for medical image analysis that can precisely segment images using a scarce amount of training data. These traits provide U-net with a very high utility within the medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Nahian Siddique , Paheding Sidike , Colin Elkin , Vijay Devabhaktuni

We investigated the use of a U-Net convolutional neural network for denoising simulated medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of stars. Simulated spectra were generated under realistic observational conditions resembling the Subaru…

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Image restoration is a low-level vision task which is to restore degraded images to noise-free images. With the success of deep neural networks, the convolutional neural networks surpass the traditional restoration methods and become the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

For decades, the application of muon tomography to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) cask imaging has been theoretically evaluated and experimentally verified by many research groups around the world, including Los Alamos National Laboratory in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-01 JungHyun Bae , Rose Montgomery , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Deep learning techniques, particularly convolutional neural networks, have shown great potential in computer vision and medical imaging applications. However, deep learning models are computationally demanding as they require enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Owais Ali , Hazrat Ali , Syed Ayaz Ali Shah , Aamir Shahzad

In transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) systems, the rotation of a scanned sample might be restricted to a limited angular range to avoid collision to other system parts or high attenuation at certain tilting angles. Image reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Yixing Huang , Shengxiang Wang , Yong Guan , Andreas Maier

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Manual annotation of the images of thin tissue sections remains a time-consuming step in Mueller microscopy and limits its scalability. We present a novel automated approach using only the total intensity M11 element of the Mueller matrix…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Sooyong Chae , Dani Giammattei , Ajmal Ajmal , Junzhu Pei , Amanda Sanchez , Tananant Boonya-ananta , Andres Rodriguez , Tatiana Novikova , Jessica Ramella-Roman

Aims: This study investigates whether a U-Net architecture can perform standalone end-to-end blind deconvolution of astronomical images without any prior knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF) or noise characteristics. Our goal is to…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is crucial in medicine, but its clinical use is limited due to high signal-to-noise ratio doses increasing radiation exposure. Lowering doses increases Poisson noise, which current denoising methods fail…

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Machine learning (ML) methods are extraordinarily successful at denoising photographic images. The application of such denoising methods to scientific images is, however, often complicated by the difficulty in experimentally obtaining a…

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers affordable access to diagnostic imaging but faces challenges such as prolonged acquisition times and reduced image quality. Although accelerated imaging via k-space undersampling helps…

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

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a promising imaging modality with distinctive advantages in strongly perturbed environments. Existing SPI methods lack physical sparsity constraints and overlook the integration of local and global features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jijun Lu , Yifan Chen , Libang Chen , Yiqiang Zhou , Ye Zheng , Mingliang Chen , Zhe Sun , Xuelong Li

Muon scattering tomography is a well-established, non-invasive imaging technique using cosmic-ray muons. Simple algorithms, such as PoCA (Point of Closest Approach), are often utilized to reconstruct the volume of interest from the observed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-10 Jean-Marco Alameddine , Felix Sattler , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

We propose a deep network that can be trained to tackle image reconstruction and classification problems that involve detection of multiple object instances, without any supervision regarding their whereabouts. The network learns to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Baptiste Angles , Yuhe Jin , Simon Kornblith , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Molecular orbital (MO) is one of the most fundamental concepts for molecules, relating to all branches of chemistry, while scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been widely recognized for its potential to measure the spatial distribution…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Yu Zhu , Renjie Xue , Hao Ren , Yicheng Chen , Wenjie Yan , Bingzheng Wu , Sai Duan , Haiming Zhang , Lifeng Chi , Xin Xu

Quantum state tomography (QST) aiming at reconstructing the density matrix of a quantum state plays an important role in various emerging quantum technologies. Recognizing the challenges posed by imperfect measurement data, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hailan Ma , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , Chang-Jiang Huang , Guo-Yong Xiang