Sparse-view and limited-angle Computed Tomography (CT) are very challenging problems in real applications. Due to the high ill-posedness, both analytical and iterative reconstruction methods may present distortions an...
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Sparse-view and limited-angle Computed Tomography (CT) are very challenging problems in real applications. Due to the high ill-posedness, both analytical and iterative reconstruction methods may present distortions and artifacts for such incompletedata problems. In this work, we propose a novel reconstruction model to jointly reconstruct a high-quality image and its corresponding high-resolution projection data. The model is built up by deploying regularization on both CT image and projection data, as well as by introducing a novel full-sampling condition to fuse information from both domains. Inspired by the success of deep learning methods in imaging, we utilize the convolutional neural networks to embed and learn both the interrelationship between raw data and reconstructed images and prior information such as regularization, which is implemented in an end-to-end training process. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms both variational and popular learning-based reconstruction methods for the sparse-view and limited-angle CT problems.
This paper addresses the problems of imagereconstruction in fan beam straight-path tomography and imagereconstructionfromincomplete object projections data. A method for restoring the parallel beam projections of ...
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This paper addresses the problems of imagereconstruction in fan beam straight-path tomography and imagereconstructionfromincomplete object projections data. A method for restoring the parallel beam projections of a test object from its fan beam projections in straight-path tomography is introduced. The scheme utilizes FFT routines to accomplish the restoration task. It is shown that the approach reduces the required amount of the collected fan beam data by one-half. Moreover, a noniterative method of imagereconstruction, when arbitrary segments of the object projections cannot be detected, is presented. The technique exploits the functional properties of the object projections, in conjunction with a priori information available about the test object, to restore the unknown data. The method's applications in straight-path and diffraction tomography systems are shown.
An approach based on limited-angle transmission tomography for reconstruction of the sound velocity distribution in the breast is proposed. The imaging setup is similar to that of x-ray mammography. With this setup, t...
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An approach based on limited-angle transmission tomography for reconstruction of the sound velocity distribution in the breast is proposed. The imaging setup is similar to that of x-ray mammography. With this setup, the time-of-flight data are acquired by a linear array positioned at the top of the compressed breast that both transmits and receives, and a metal plate is placed at the bottom as a reflector. The setup allows acoustic data acquisition for simultaneous B-mode image formation and the tomographic sound velocity reconstruction. In order to improve the sound velocity estimation accuracy, a new reconstruction algorithm based on a convex programming formulation has been developed. Extensive simulations for both imaging and time-of-flight data based on a 5-MHz linear array were performed on tissues with different geometries and acoustic parameters. Results show that the sound velocity error was generally 1-3 m/s, with a maximum of 5.8 m/s. The radii of the objects under investigation varied from 2 to 6 mm, and all of them were detected successfully. Thus, the proposed approach has been shown to be both feasible and accurate. The approach can be used to complement conventional B-mode imaging to further enhance the detection of breast cancer.
Optical diffusion imaging is a new imaging modality that promises great potential in applications such as medical imaging, environmental sensing and nondestructive testing. It presents a difficult nonlinear image reco...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819437689
Optical diffusion imaging is a new imaging modality that promises great potential in applications such as medical imaging, environmental sensing and nondestructive testing. It presents a difficult nonlinear imagereconstruction problem however. An inversion algorithm is formulated in a Bayesian framework, and an efficient optimization technique that uses iterative coordinate descent is presented. A general multigrid optimization technique for nonlinear imagereconstruction problems is developed and applied to the optical diffusion imaging problem. Numerical results show that this approach improves the quality of reconstructions and dramatically decreases computation times.
CT imagereconstructionfromincomplete projection data is a challenging problem. Among massive reconstruction methods, iterative reconstruction based on compressed sensing (CS) is a promising one that enables us to a...
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(纸本)9781479905348
CT imagereconstructionfromincomplete projection data is a challenging problem. Among massive reconstruction methods, iterative reconstruction based on compressed sensing (CS) is a promising one that enables us to accurately recovery signals from highly under-sample data when the signals have a sparse representation, which usually can be done by the constrained l(1) minimization. The total variation (TV) minimization is a commonly used sparsity constraint, which assumes the target image is piece-wise constant. TV based CS algorithm has been successfully applied to solve many computed tomography problems, such as few views and interior reconstruction. In this work, we proposed a novel CS algorithm combined with a prior image to enhance the TV sparsity, namely structural prior enhanced compressed sensing (SPECS). Numerical simulation indicates SPECS is effective and robust for many kinds of incompletedata cases.
In recent years, dictionary learning has shown to be an efficient tool in recovering images from their degraded, damaged or incomplete version. Especially, for medical images that contain significant details and chara...
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In recent years, dictionary learning has shown to be an efficient tool in recovering images from their degraded, damaged or incomplete version. Especially, for medical images that contain significant details and characteristics. In this work, the authors are interested in this unsupervised learning technique for discovering and visualising the underlying structure of a medical image. Therefore, an adaptive bi-dictionary learning model for recovering magnetic resonance (MR) imagefrom undersampled measurements is introduced. The proposed model learns two dictionaries, one over the underlying image and the other over its sparse gradient. Hence, the algorithm minimises a linear combination of three terms corresponding to the least-squares data fitting, dictionary learning over the pixel domain, and gradient-based dictionary. Numerically, experimental results on several MR images demonstrate that the proposed bi-dictionary framework can improve reconstruction accuracy over other methods.
We give a recursive algorithm to calculate submatrices of the Cramer-Rao (CR) matrix bound on the covariance of any unbiased estimator of a vector parameter theta. Our algorithm computes a sequence of lower bounds tha...
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We give a recursive algorithm to calculate submatrices of the Cramer-Rao (CR) matrix bound on the covariance of any unbiased estimator of a vector parameter theta. Our algorithm computes a sequence of lower bounds that converges monotonically to the CR bound with exponential speed of convergence. The recursive algorithm uses an invertible ''splitting matrix'' to successively approximate the inverse Fisher information matrix. We present a statistical approach to selecting the splitting matrix based on a ''complete-data-incomplete-data'' formulation similar to that of the well-known EM parameter estimation algorithm. As a concrete illustration we consider imagereconstructionfrom projections for emission computed tomography.
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Power, GJUSAF
Res Lab Wright Patterson AFB OH 45433 USA
When imaging the ground from the air, distortions can occur if the imagery was created from an electro-optical line scanner pointing to nadir and mounted on the bottom of all airborne platform. The inability of the ai...
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(纸本)0819437689
When imaging the ground from the air, distortions can occur if the imagery was created from an electro-optical line scanner pointing to nadir and mounted on the bottom of all airborne platform. The inability of the aircraft to maintain a perfect trajectory can cause the distortions. In the worst case scenario, camera stabilizers fail, no geographical reference or navigation data is available, and the sensor periodically fails leaving incompletedata for imagereconstruction. Motion compensation can restore the images. This paper describes various distortions that can be created for an airborne nadir-aimed line scanner. A motion-compensation technique is introduced that combines multiple cues from geographical reference and navigation data as well as line-scan matched filtering. A semi-automated restoration implementation is introduced followed by the automated line-scan matched filter implementation. These various compensation techniques provide backup for each other thus creating a more efficient motion-compensation system. Even in the worst case scenario, the system continues to attempt motion compensation using an optimal line-scan matched filtering technique. The results of using this automated technique for motion compensation is demonstrated using simulated high-definition imagery and then using actual electro-optical and hyperspectral images that were obtained from the Dynamic data Base (DDB) program sponsored LS the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Cepstral filtering is reviewed as a suitable and efficient method to solve the inverse scattering problem in the case of strongly scattering permittivity distributions. The number and distribution of measured scattere...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819482969
Cepstral filtering is reviewed as a suitable and efficient method to solve the inverse scattering problem in the case of strongly scattering permittivity distributions. The number and distribution of measured scattered field data required is discussed, as is the effective number of degrees of freedom available to describe the scattering structure. The latter is identified as a key parameter determining the performance of the cepstral method. This is of particular importance for strong scattering and nonlinear image processing methods since many data sets are compiled based on the sampling requirements of weakly scattering objects. We find that the domain of the object support and the maximum permittivity contrast are important prior information for determining the minimum number of data samples necessary while maximizing use of the available degrees of freedom;examples are presented.
Maximum likelihood statistical algorithms are described for estimating the 3-D variation of the electron scattering intensity of biological objects from cryo electron microscopy images of multiple instances of the obj...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819472960
Maximum likelihood statistical algorithms are described for estimating the 3-D variation of the electron scattering intensity of biological objects from cryo electron microscopy images of multiple instances of the object. Three virus objects, two spherical and one helical, are considered. Solution of the maximum likelihood problem by expectation maximization algorithms or by direct maximization of the log likelihood requires large scale computing and end-to-end codesign of biological problem formulation, statistical models, algorithms, and software design and implementation have contributed to achieving practical results.
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