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Positron emission tomography (PET) suffers from severe resolution limitations which limit its quantitative accuracy. In this paper, we present a super-resolution (SR) imaging technique for PET based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Tzu-An Song , Samadrita Roy Chowdhury , Fan Yang , Joyita Dutta

Dynamic positron emission tomography (dPET) image reconstruction is extremely challenging due to the limited counts received in individual frame. In this paper, we propose a spatial-temporal convolutional primal dual network (STPDnet) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Rui Hu , Jianan Cui , Chengjin Yu , Yunmei Chen , Huafeng Liu

In this paper, we provide a precise mathematical model of crystal-to-crystal response which is used to generate the white image - a necessary compensation model needed to overcome the physical limitations of the PET scanner. We present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Tomislav Matulić , Damir Seršić

Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bin Huang , Binzhong He , Yanhan Chen , Zhili Liu , Xinyue Wang , Binxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Phase retrieval, a nonlinear problem prevalent in imaging applications, has been extensively studied using random models, some of which with i.i.d. sensing matrix components. While these models offer robust reconstruction guarantees, they…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 Zhiyuan Hu , Julián Tachella , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Many nuclear safety applications need fast, portable, and accurate imagers to better locate radiation sources. The Rotating Scatter Mask (RSM) system is an emerging device with the potential to meet these needs. The main challenge is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yilun Zhu , Clayton Scott , Darren Holland , George Landon , Aaron Fjeldsted , Azaree Lintereur

Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

This paper discusses the reconstruction of partially sampled spectrum-images to accelerate the acquisition in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The problem of image reconstruction has been widely considered in the literature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Etienne Monier , Thomas Oberlin , Nathalie Brun , Xiaoyan Li , Marcel Tencé , Nicolas Dobigeon

Anatomically guided PET reconstruction using MRI information has been shown to have the potential to improve PET image quality. However, these improvements are limited to PET scans with paired MRI information. In this work we employed a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Weijie Gan , Huidong Xie , Carl von Gall , Günther Platsch , Michael T. Jurkiewicz , Andrea Andrade , Udunna C. Anazodo , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hongyu An , Jorge Cabello

In this paper, we provide a novel method for the estimation of unknown parameters of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A vast majority of PET imaging methods are based on reconstruction model that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tomislav Matulić , Damir Seršić

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

Quantitative accuracy and thus diagnostic precision in Emission Tomography is impaired by the inherent random characteristics of the data acquisition leading to statistical image noise. Edge preserving spatial variation regularized…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Andre Salomon , Andriy Andreyev , Andreas Goedicke

We introduce GRM, a large-scale reconstructor capable of recovering a 3D asset from sparse-view images in around 0.1s. GRM is a feed-forward transformer-based model that efficiently incorporates multi-view information to translate the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yinghao Xu , Zifan Shi , Wang Yifan , Hansheng Chen , Ceyuan Yang , Sida Peng , Yujun Shen , Gordon Wetzstein

Online reconstructing and rendering of large-scale indoor scenes is a long-standing challenge. SLAM-based methods can reconstruct 3D scene geometry progressively in real time but can not render photorealistic results. While NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yiming Gao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

High resolution images can be acquired using a non-regular sampling sensor which consists of an underlying low resolution sensor that is covered with a non-regular sampling mask. The reconstructed high resolution image is then obtained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Markus Jonscher , Karina Jaskolka , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Variational formulations of reconstruction in computed tomography have the notable drawback of requiring repeated evaluations of both the forward Radon transform and either its adjoint or an approximate inverse transform which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Richard C. Barnard , Rick Archibald

Human beings construct perception of space by integrating sparse observations into massively interconnected synapses and neurons, offering a superior parallelism and efficiency. Replicating this capability in AI finds wide applications in…

We develop and evaluate MlPET, a fast localized machine learning approach for probabilistic PET image analysis addressing the noise-resolution trade-off in conventional reconstructions. MlPET replaces computationally demanding Markov chain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Thomas Mejer Hansen , Nana Christensen , Mikkel Vendelbo

Although image super-resolution (SR) problem has experienced unprecedented restoration accuracy with deep neural networks, it has yet limited versatile applications due to the substantial computational costs. Since different input images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Cheeun Hong , Kyoung Mu Lee

Three-dimensional x-ray CT image reconstruction in baggage scanning in security applications is an important research field. The variety of materials to be reconstructed is broader than medical x-ray imaging. Presence of high attenuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-20 S. Degirmenci , Joseph A. O'Sullivan , David G. Politte