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Dose verification based on proton-induced positron emitters is a promising quality assurance tool and may leverage the strength of artificial intelligence. To move a step closer towards practical application, the sensitivity analysis of two…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Shixiong Yu , Yuxiang Liu , Zongsheng Hu , Haozhao Zhang , Pengyu Qi , Hao Peng

Our aim was to enhance visual quality and quantitative accuracy of dynamic positron emission tomography (PET)uptake images by improved image reconstruction, using sophisticated sparse penalty models that incorporate both 2D spatial+1D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ida Häggström , Yizun Lin , Si Li , Andrzej Krol , Yuesheng Xu , C. Ross Schmidtlein

For applications in navigation and robotics, estimating the 3D pose of objects is as important as detection. Many approaches to pose estimation rely on detecting or tracking parts or keypoints [11, 21]. In this paper we build on a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Patrick Poirson , Phil Ammirato , Cheng-Yang Fu , Wei Liu , Jana Kosecka , Alexander C. Berg

Quantitative analysis of the dynamics of tiny cellular and sub-cellular structures, known as particles, in time-lapse cell microscopy sequences requires the development of a reliable multi-target tracking method capable of tracking numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Stephen Gould , Ba Tuong Vo , Ba-Ngu Vo , Katarina Mele , Richard Hartley

For the current 3D human pose estimation task, a group of methods mainly learn the rules of 2D-3D projection from spatial and temporal correlation. However, earlier methods model the global features of the entire body joint in the time…

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We present a monoenergetic positron beam specifically tailored to the needs of (near-) surface positron annihilation spectroscopy. The Setup for LOw-energy Positron Experiments (SLOPE) comprises a high-activity 22Na source, a tungsten…

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We present a fully Bayesian statistical approach to the problem of compartmental modelling in the context of Positron Emission Tomography. We cluster homogeneous region of interest and perform kinetic parameter estimation simultaneously. A…

Many man-made objects are characterised by a shape that is symmetric along one or more planar directions. Estimating the location and orientation of such symmetry planes can aid many tasks such as estimating the overall orientation of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Tommaso Cavallari

This work presents a compact, cumulative and coalescible probabilistic voxel mapping method to enhance performance, accuracy and memory efficiency in LiDAR odometry. Probabilistic voxel mapping requires storing past point clouds and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xu Yang , Wenhao Li , Qijie Ge , Lulu Suo , Weijie Tang , Zhengyu Wei , Longxiang Huang , Bo Wang

Positron range (PR) blurring degrades positron emission tomography (PET) image resolution, particularly for high-energy emitters like gallium-68 (68 Ga). We introduce Dual-Input Dynamic Convolution (DDConv), a novel computationally…

In the gravitational-wave analysis of pulsar-timing-array datasets, parameter estimation is usually performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to explore posterior probability densities. We introduce an alternative procedure that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Michele Vallisneri , Marco Crisostomi , Aaron D. Johnson , Patrick M. Meyers

Purpose: To develop a fast, general-purpose framework for voxelwise noise characterization in linear and nonlinear iterative MRI reconstructions, recovering the image-domain noise variance from which SNR, $g$-factor, and related…

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Recent advances in sparse voxel representations have significantly improved the quality of 3D content generation, enabling high-resolution modeling with fine-grained geometry. However, existing frameworks suffer from severe computational…

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We present Voxel Transformer (VoTr), a novel and effective voxel-based Transformer backbone for 3D object detection from point clouds. Conventional 3D convolutional backbones in voxel-based 3D detectors cannot efficiently capture large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jiageng Mao , Yujing Xue , Minzhe Niu , Haoyue Bai , Jiashi Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu

3D object detectors usually rely on hand-crafted proxies, e.g., anchors or centers, and translate well-studied 2D frameworks to 3D. Thus, sparse voxel features need to be densified and processed by dense prediction heads, which inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yukang Chen , Jianhui Liu , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Jiaya Jia

Synchronization over the special Euclidean group SE(3) aims to recover absolute poses from noisy pairwise relative transformations and is a core primitive in robotics and 3D vision. Standard approaches often require multi-step heuristic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Jianing Zhao , Linglingzhi Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

Bayesian inference, while foundational to probabilistic reasoning, is often hampered by the computational intractability of posterior distributions, particularly through the challenging evidence integral. Conventional approaches like Markov…

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A Bayesian lattice filtering and smoothing approach is proposed for fast and accurate modeling and inference in multivariate non-stationary time series. This approach offers computational feasibility and interpretable time-frequency…

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