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Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) is pivotal for highlighting tissue perfusion and vascularity, yet its clinical ubiquity is impeded by the invasive nature of contrast agents and radiation risks. While virtual contrast…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) plays a vital role in clinical applications by mitigating radiation risks. Nevertheless, reducing radiation doses significantly degrades image quality. Concurrently, common deep learning methods demand…

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PET super-resolution is highly under-constrained because paired multi-resolution scans from the same subject are rarely available, and effective resolution is determined by scanner-specific physics (e.g., PSF, detector geometry, and…

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Recent works demonstrate the effectiveness of diffusion models as unsupervised solvers for inverse imaging problems. Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has greatly benefited from these advancements, achieving improved generalization…

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Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

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Diffusion models have been shown to implicitly generate visual content autoregressively in the frequency domain, where low-frequency components are generated earlier in the denoising process while high-frequency details emerge only in later…

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Sparse-view sampling in dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) significantly reduces radiation dose and increases imaging speed, yet is highly prone to artifacts. Although diffusion models have demonstrated potential in effectively handling…

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