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The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Diffusion-based sparse-view CT (SVCT) imaging has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to its more stable generative capability. However, recovering reliable image content and visually consistent textures is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianqi Wang , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Intraoperative CT imaging serves as a crucial resource for surgical guidance; however, it may not always be readily accessible or practical to implement. In scenarios where CT imaging is not an option, reconstructing CT scans from X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Zhi Qiao , Xuhui Liu , Xiaopeng Wang , Runkun Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Pei Dong , Zhen Qian

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation exposure by subsampling projection views, but conventional reconstruction methods produce severe streak artifacts with undersampled data. While deep-learning-based methods enable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Jixiang Chen , Yiqun Lin , Yi Qin , Hualiang Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) can be used in Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction by leveraging diffusion-based generative models for unconditional image synthesis while matching the observations (data) of a CT scan. Of particular…

Sparse views X-ray computed tomography has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. Because of the reduced number of projection views, traditional reconstruction methods can lead to severe artifacts. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Guang Yang , Daoqiang Zhang

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are the standard-of-care for the visualization and diagnosis of many clinical ailments, and are needed for the treatment planning of external beam radiotherapy. Unfortunately, the availability of CT scanners…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Yiran Sun , Hana Baroudi , Tucker Netherton , Laurence Court , Osama Mawlawi , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Diffusion Posterior Sampling(DPS) methodology is a novel framework that permits nonlinear CT reconstruction by integrating a diffusion prior and an analytic physical system model, allowing for one-time training for different applications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xiao Jiang , Shudong Li , Peiqing Teng , Grace Gang , J. Webster Stayman

We propose SparseFusion, a sparse view 3D reconstruction approach that unifies recent advances in neural rendering and probabilistic image generation. Existing approaches typically build on neural rendering with re-projected features but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhizhuo Zhou , Shubham Tulsiani

In this paper, we present a novel shape reconstruction method leveraging diffusion model to generate 3D sparse point cloud for the object captured in a single RGB image. Recent methods typically leverage global embedding or local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yan Di , Chenyangguang Zhang , Pengyuan Wang , Guangyao Zhai , Ruida Zhang , Fabian Manhardt , Benjamin Busam , Xiangyang Ji , Federico Tombari

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

Current deep learning approaches for prostate cancer lesion segmentation achieve limited performance, with Dice scores of 0.32 or lower in large patient cohorts. To address this limitation, we investigate synthetic correlated diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jarett Dewbury , Chi-en Amy Tai , Alexander Wong

Sparse-View CT (SVCT) reconstruction enhances temporal resolution and reduces radiation dose, yet its clinical use is hindered by artifacts due to view reduction and domain shifts from scanner, protocol, or anatomical variations, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Haodong Li , Shuo Han , Haiyang Mao , Yu Shi , Changsheng Fang , Jianjia Zhang , Weiwen Wu , Hengyong Yu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liutao Yang , Zi Wang , Peiyuan Jing , Xiaowen Wang , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Kuangyu Shi , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Inferring 3D structures from sparse, unposed observations is challenging due to its unconstrained nature. Recent methods propose to predict implicit representations directly from unposed inputs in a data-driven manner, achieving promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Songchun Zhang , Chunhui Zhao

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenging due to undersampling, leading to an ill-posed inverse problem. Traditional iterative methods incorporate handcrafted or learned priors to regularize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Leon Suarez-Rodriguez , Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdron-Hurtado , Ana Mantilla-Dulcey , Henry Arguello

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu