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Purpose Medical imaging diagnosis faces challenges, including low-resolution images due to machine artifacts and patient movement. This paper presents the Frequency-Guided U-Net (GFNet), a novel approach for medical image segmentation that…

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Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging modality for breast imaging. Image reconstruction methods that incorporate accurate wave physics produce high resolution quantitative images of acoustic properties but are computationally…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent imaging technique for retina. However, it is affected by multiplicative speckle noise that can degrade the visibility of essential anatomical structures, including blood vessels and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Dewei Hu , Joseph D. Malone , Yigit Atay , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Real-time monocular 3D reconstruction is a challenging problem that remains unsolved. Although recent end-to-end methods have demonstrated promising results, tiny structures and geometric boundaries are hardly captured due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Chenyangguang Zhang , Zhiqiang Lou , Yan Di , Federico Tombari , Xiangyang Ji

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) enables the observation of atomic arrangements at sub-angstrom resolution, allowing for atomically resolved analysis of the physical and chemical properties of materials. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Hesong Li , Ziqi Wu , Ruiwen Shao , Tao Zhang , Ying Fu

Medical imaging is essential in healthcare to provide key insights into patient anatomy and pathology, aiding in diagnosis and treatment. Non-invasive techniques such as X-ray, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Fnu Neha , Deepshikha Bhati , Deepak Kumar Shukla , Sonavi Makarand Dalvi , Nikolaos Mantzou , Safa Shubbar

Automated segmentation of pathological regions of interest aids medical image diagnostics and follow-up care. However, accurate pathological segmentations require high quality of annotated data that can be both cost and time intensive to…

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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

Low-resolution image segmentation is crucial in real-world applications such as robotics, augmented reality, and large-scale scene understanding, where high-resolution data is often unavailable due to computational constraints. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Anzhe Cheng , Chenzhong Yin , Yu Chang , Heng Ping , Shixuan Li , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

In the recent past, there have been several efforts in accelerating computationally heavy beamforming algorithms such as minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming to achieve real-time performance comparable to the popular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Sairoop Bodepudi , A N Madhavanunni , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

Quality assurance and condition assessment of concrete structures is an important topic world-wide due to the ageing infrastructure and increasing traffic demands. Common topics include, but are not limited to, localisation of rebar or…

Image enhancement is a critical task in computer vision and photography that is often entangled with noise. This renders the traditional Image Signal Processing (ISP) ineffective compared to the advances in deep learning. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Srinivas Miriyala , Sowmya Vajrala , Hitesh Kumar , Sravanth Kodavanti , Vikram Rajendiran

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) enables atomic-resolution imaging and atom manipulation, but its utility is often limited by tip degradation and slow serial data acquisition. Fabrication adds another layer of complexity since the tip…

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While Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has been widely used in diagnosis of number of diseases, it has costly acquisition process which involves radiation exposure to patients. However, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Hajar Emami , Qiong Liu , Ming Dong

Muon Tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons in matter is a promising technique for detecting heavily shielded high-Z radioactive materials (U, Pu) in cargo or vehicles. The technique uses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Leonard V. Grasso , Marcus Hohlmann , Judson B. Locke , Amilkar S. Quintero , Debasis Mitra

We developed a source detection algorithm based on the Minimal Spanning Tree (MST), that is a graph-theoretical method useful for finding clusters in a given set of points. This algorithm is applied to gamma-ray bidimensional images where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riccardo Campana , Enrico Massaro , Dario Gasparrini , Sara Cutini , Andrea Tramacere

We apply the U-Net model for compressive light field synthesis. Compared to methods based on stacked CNN and iterative algorithms, this method offers better image quality, uniformity and less computation.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chen Gao , Haifeng Li , Xu Liu , Xiaodi Tan

This paper proposes a classification network to image semantic retrieval (NIST) framework to counter the image retrieval challenge. Our approach leverages the successful classification network GoogleNet based on Convolutional Neural…

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The diagnosis of brain cancer relies heavily on medical imaging techniques, with MRI being the most commonly used. It is necessary to perform automatic segmentation of brain tumors on MRI images. This project intends to build an MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Hu , Haowei Yang , Ting Xu , Shuyao He , Jiajie Yuan , Haozhang Deng

Fluoroscopy is critical for real-time X-ray visualization in medical imaging. However, low-dose images are compromised by noise, potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. Noise reduction is crucial for maintaining image quality, especially…

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