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20192026
most citedRARE: Image Reconstruction using Deep Priors Learned without Ground Truth

153 citations · 236 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

eess.IV2026

A Unified Framework for Multimodal Image Reconstruction and Synthesis using Denoising Diffusion Models

Weijie Gan, Xucheng Wang, Tongyao Wang +6

Image reconstruction and image synthesis are important for handling incomplete multimodal imaging data, but existing methods require various task-specific models, complicating trai…

eess.IV2025

Plug-and-Play Posterior Sampling for Blind Inverse Problems

Anqi Li, Weijie Gan, Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are…

eess.IV2025

A Self-supervised Diffusion Bridge for MRI Reconstruction

Harry Gao, Weijie Gan, Yuyang Hu +2

Diffusion bridges (DBs) are a class of diffusion models that enable faster sampling by interpolating between two paired image distributions. Training traditional DBs for image reco…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

A Generalizable 3D Diffusion Framework for Low-Dose and Few-View Cardiac SPECT

Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Wei Ji +13

Myocardial perfusion imaging using SPECT is widely utilized to diagnose coronary artery diseases, but image quality can be negatively affected in low-dose and few-view acquisition…

eess.IV2024

ADOBI: Adaptive Diffusion Bridge For Blind Inverse Problems with Application to MRI Reconstruction

Yuyang Hu, Albert Peng, Weijie Gan +1

Diffusion bridges (DB) have emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion models for imaging inverse problems, achieving faster sampling by directly bridging low- and high-qualit…

eess.IV2024

Stochastic Deep Restoration Priors for Imaging Inverse Problems

Yuyang Hu, Albert Peng, Weijie Gan +3

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image pr…

eess.IV2024★ 4 cited

Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D PET Image Denoising: Multi-institutional Validation with Reader Study and Real Low-dose Data

Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Reimund Bayerlein +24

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigat…

eess.IV2024

Pseudo-MRI-Guided PET Image Reconstruction Method Based on a Diffusion Probabilistic Model

Weijie Gan, Huidong Xie, Carl von Gall +7

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…

cs.CV2023

Convergence of Nonconvex PnP-ADMM with MMSE Denoisers

Chicago Park, Shirin Shoushtari, Weijie Gan +1

Plug-and-Play Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PnP-ADMM) is a widely-used algorithm for solving inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models and convolut…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

DDPET-3D: Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D Ultra Low-dose PET Imaging

Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Bo Zhou +8

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

FLAIR: A Conditional Diffusion Framework with Applications to Face Video Restoration

Zihao Zou, Jiaming Liu, Shirin Shoushtari +3

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probab…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

DiffGEPCI: 3D MRI Synthesis from mGRE Signals using 2.5D Diffusion Model

Yuyang Hu, Satya V. V. N. Kothapalli, Weijie Gan +5

We introduce a new framework called DiffGEPCI for cross-modality generation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a 2.5D conditional diffusion model. DiffGEPCI can synthesize h…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Model-Based Deep Learning via Network Pruning and Fine-Tuning

Chicago Y. Park, Weijie Gan, Zihao Zou +3

Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estim…

eess.IV2023★ 12 cited

PtychoDV: Vision Transformer-Based Deep Unrolling Network for Ptychographic Image Reconstruction

Weijie Gan, Qiuchen Zhai, Michael Thompson McCann +3

Ptychography is an imaging technique that captures multiple overlapping snapshots of a sample, illuminated coherently by a moving localized probe. The image recovery from ptychogra…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

A Plug-and-Play Image Registration Network

Junhao Hu, Weijie Gan, Zhixin Sun +2

Deformable image registration (DIR) is an active research topic in biomedical imaging. There is a growing interest in developing DIR methods based on deep learning (DL). A traditio…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Block Coordinate Plug-and-Play Methods for Blind Inverse Problems

Weijie Gan, Shirin Shoushtari, Yuyang Hu +3

Plug-and-play (PnP) prior is a well-known class of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining physical measurement models and lea…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

SINCO: A Novel structural regularizer for image compression using implicit neural representations

Harry Gao, Weijie Gan, Zhixin Sun +1

Implicit neural representations (INR) have been recently proposed as deep learning (DL) based solutions for image compression. An image can be compressed by training an INR model w…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

Self-Supervised Deep Equilibrium Models for Inverse Problems with Theoretical Guarantees

Weijie Gan, Chunwei Ying, Parna Eshraghi +7

Deep equilibrium models (DEQ) have emerged as a powerful alternative to deep unfolding (DU) for image reconstruction. DEQ models-implicit neural networks with effectively infinite…

eess.IV2022★ 5 cited

CoRRECT: A Deep Unfolding Framework for Motion-Corrected Quantitative R2* Mapping

Xiaojian Xu, Weijie Gan, Satya V. V. N. Kothapalli +2

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) refers to a class of MRI methods for quantifying the spatial distribution of biological tissue parameters. Traditional qMRI methods usually deal separately…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

SPICER: Self-Supervised Learning for MRI with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation and Reconstruction

Yuyang Hu, Weijie Gan, Chunwei Ying +6

Deep model-based architectures (DMBAs) integrating physical measurement models and learned image regularizers are widely used in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (PMRI). Traditi…

eess.IV2022★ 6 cited

Online Deep Equilibrium Learning for Regularization by Denoising

Jiaming Liu, Xiaojian Xu, Weijie Gan +2

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularization by Denoising (RED) are widely-used frameworks for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining ph…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Image Reconstruction for MRI using Deep CNN Priors Trained without Groundtruth

Weijie Gan, Cihat Eldeniz, Jiaming Liu +3

We propose a new plug-and-play priors (PnP) based MR image reconstruction method that systematically enforces data consistency while also exploiting deep-learning priors. Our prior…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

Learning Cross-Video Neural Representations for High-Quality Frame Interpolation

Wentao Shangguan, Yu Sun, Weijie Gan +1

This paper considers the problem of temporal video interpolation, where the goal is to synthesize a new video frame given its two neighbors. We propose Cross-Video Neural Represent…

eess.IV2021★ 1 cited

Learning-based Motion Artifact Removal Networks (LEARN) for Quantitative Mapping

Xiaojian Xu, Satya V. V. N. Kothapalli, Jiaming Liu +4

Purpose: To introduce two novel learning-based motion artifact removal networks (LEARN) for the estimation of quantitative motion- and -inhomogeneity-corrected maps…