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Neurological Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a critical imaging modality for diagnosing and studying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. However, the inherent low spatial resolution of PET images poses significant…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Quanzheng Li

We present a hybrid image classifier by mode-selective image upconversion, single pixel photodetection, and deep learning, aiming at fast processing a large number of pixels. It utilizes partial Fourier transform to extract the signature…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-21 Santosh Kumar , Ting Bu , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

We present a quantum secure imaging (QSI) scheme based on the phase encoding and weak + vacuum decoy-state BB84 protocol of quantum key distribution (QKD). It allows us to implement a computational ghost imaging (CGI) system with more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Yi-Bo Zhao , Wan-Li Zhang , Dong Wang , Xiao-Tian Song , Liang-Jiang Zhou , Chi-Biao Ding

This paper proposes a novel method to filter out the false alarm of LiDAR system by using the temporal correlation of target reflected photons. Because of the inevitable noise, which is due to background light and dark counts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-22 Zhenchao Feng , Weiji He , Jian Fang , Guohua Gu , Qian Chen , Ping Zhang , Yuanjin Chen , Beibei Zhou , Minhua Zhou

Full-color imaging is significant in digital pathology. Compared with a grayscale image or a pseudo-color image that only contains the contrast information, it can identify and detect the target object better with color texture information.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yuting Gao , Jiurun Chen , Aiye Wang , An Pan , Caiwen Ma , Baoli Yao

Computed tomography from a low radiation dose (LDCT) is challenging due to high noise in the projection data. Popular approaches for LDCT image reconstruction are two-stage methods, typically consisting of the filtered backprojection (FBP)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Tim Selig , Thomas März , Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann

We propose a novel technique of microscopy to overcome the effects of both scattering and limitation of the accessible depth due to the objective working distance. By combining Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) with Acoustic Photon…

We analyze noise in a quantum-enhanced fiber optic gyroscope (FOG), focusing on one of the leading sources of phase uncertainty - uncorrelated photon saturation. Taking a squeezed state input as a source for N00N states, we compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Stefan Evans , Joanna Ptasinski

It is shown that the maximal phase sensitivity of a two-path interferometer with high-intensity coherent light and squeezed vacuum in the input ports can be achieved by photon-number-resolving detection of only a small number of photons in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Jun-Yi Wu , Norifumi Toda , Holger F. Hofmann

A new method of quantum state tomography for quantum information processing is described. The method based on two-dimensional Fourier transform technique involves detection of all the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ranabir Das , T. S. Mahesh , Anil Kumar

Photon loss is destructive to the performance of quantum photonic devices and therefore suppressing the effects of photon loss is paramount to photonic quantum technologies. We present two schemes to mitigate the effects of photon loss for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Daiqin Su , Robert Israel , Kunal Sharma , Haoyu Qi , Ish Dhand , Kamil Brádler

Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Mateen Ulhaq , Simon Feltman

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational technique that achieves a large space-bandwidth product imaging. It addresses the challenge of balancing a large field of view and high resolution by fusing information from multiple…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao , Xin Li , Shaohui Zhang

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

The speed and quality of single-pixel imaging (SPI) are fundamentally limited by image modulation frequency and by the levels of optical noise and compression noise. In an approach to come close to these limits, we introduce a SPI…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Anna Pastuszczak , Rafał Stojek , Piotr Wróbel , Rafał Kotyński

It is thought that schemes for quantum imaging are fragile against realistic environments in which the background noise is often stronger than the nonclassical signal of the imaging photons. Unfortunately, it is unfeasible to produce…

Quantum imaging exploits the spatial correlations between photons to image object features with a higher resolution than a corresponding classical light source could achieve. Using a quantum correlated $N$-photon state, the method of…

We present an advanced quantum super-resolution imaging technique based on photon statistics measurement and its accurate modeling. Our reconstruction algorithm adapts to any kind of non-Poissonian emitters, outperforming the corresponding…

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

Accurate image reconstruction is crucial for photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT). Recently, deep learning has been used to reconstruct the PA image with a supervised scheme, which requires high-quality images as ground truth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Hengrong Lan , Lijie Huang , Zhiqiang Li , Jing Lv , Jianwen Luo