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Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods can lead to tremendous visual performance for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Recent works on plug-and-play image restoration have shown that a denoiser can implicitly serve as the image prior for model-based methods to solve many inverse problems. Such a property induces considerable advantages for plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Kai Zhang , Yawei Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

In this paper we analyze the Gradient-Step Denoiser and its usage in Plug-and-Play algorithms. The Plug-and-Play paradigm of optimization algorithms uses off the shelf denoisers to replace a proximity operator or a gradient descent operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Vincent Herfeld , Baudouin Denis de Senneville , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

This paper presents a novel deformable registration framework, leveraging an image prior specified through a denoising function, for severely noise-corrupted placental images. Recent work on plug-and-play (PnP) priors has shown the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jiarui Xing , Ulugbek Kamilov , Wenjie Wu , Yong Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

Current spatiotemporal deep learning approaches to Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) build artefact-removal models customised to a particular k-space subsampling pattern which is used for fast (compressed) acquisition. This may not be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Ketan Fatania , Carolin M. Pirkl , Marion I. Menzel , Peter Hall , Mohammad Golbabaee

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Incorporating computed tomography (CT) reconstruction operators into differentiable pipelines has proven beneficial in many applications. Such approaches usually focus on the projection data and keep the acquisition geometry fixed. However,…

A major challenge for medical X-ray CT imaging is reducing the number of X-ray projections to lower radiation dosage and reduce scan times without compromising image quality. However these under-determined inverse imaging problems rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Maliha Hossain , Yuankai Huo , Xinqiang Yan , Xiao Wang

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Fast data acquisition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vastly in demand and scan time directly depends on the number of acquired k-space samples. Conventional MRI reconstruction methods for fast MRI acquisition mostly relied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ali Pour Yazdanpanah , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Sayantan Dutta , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Ashwini Galande , K. S. Shriram , Bipul Das

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is pivotal in corneal imaging for both surgical planning and diagnosis. However, high-speed acquisitions often degrade spatial resolution and increase speckle noise, posing challenges for accurate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Wenhan Guo , Ziyi Huang , Rosalinda Xiong , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Long lasting efforts have been made to reduce radiation dose and thus the potential radiation risk to the patient for computed tomography acquisitions without severe deterioration of image quality. To this end, numerous reconstruction and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Elias Eulig , Björn Ommer , Marc Kachelrieß

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in modern medical diagnostic but suffers from prolonged scan time. Current deep learning methods for undersampled MRI reconstruction exhibit good performance in image de-aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Min Xiao , Zi Wang , Jiefeng Guo , Xiaobo Qu

Recent frameworks, such as the so-called plug-and-play, allow us to leverage the developments in image denoising to tackle other, and more involved, problems in image processing. As the name suggests, state-of-the-art denoisers are plugged…

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Recovering high-dimensional statistical structure from limited measurements is a fundamental challenge in hyperspectral imaging, where capturing full-resolution data is often infeasible due to sensor, bandwidth, or acquisition constraints.…

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