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most citedAnatomical-Guided Attention Enhances Unsupervised PET Image Denoising Performance

50 citations · 186 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.med-ph2026

Multi-Kernel TOF-PET Image Reconstruction Using ADMM

Kibo Ote, Fumio Hashimoto, Yuya Onishi +3

Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) detectors exhibiting multiple coincidence time resolution (CTR) components, such as those induced by the mixing of Cherenkov a…

physics.ins-det2026

Machine learning enables experimental access to photon-by-photon arrival times in scintillation detectors

Yuya Onishi, Ryosuke Ota, Fumio Hashimoto +4

Scintillation detectors with excellent timing resolution enable more precise localization of radiation sources in positron emission tomography, leading to substantial improvements…

physics.med-ph2025★ 1 cited

Exploiting network optimization stability for enhanced PET image denoising using deep image prior

Fumio Hashimoto, Kibo Ote, Yuya Onishi +5

PET is affected by statistical noise due to constraints on tracer dose and scan duration, impacting both diagnostic performance and quantitative accuracy. While deep learning (DL)-…

physics.med-ph2024★ 2 cited

List-Mode PET Image Reconstruction Using Dykstra-Like Splitting

Kibo Ote, Fumio Hashimoto, Yuya Onishi +1

Convergence of the block iterative method in image reconstruction for positron emission tomography (PET) requires careful control of relaxation parameters, which is a challenging t…

physics.med-ph2023★ 6 cited

ReconU-Net: a direct PET image reconstruction using U-Net architecture with back projection-induced skip connection

Fumio Hashimoto, Kibo Ote

[Objective] This study aims to introduce a novel back projection-induced U-Net-shaped architecture, called ReconU-Net, for deep learning-based direct positron emission tomography (…

physics.med-ph2023

Emphasizing Cherenkov photons from bismuth germanate by single photon deconvolution

Ryosuke Ota, Kibo Ote

Bismuth germanate (BGO) has been receiving attention again because it is a potential scintillator for future time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Owing to its optical prope…

physics.med-ph2023★ 15 cited

Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Deep Image Prior-Based Robust PET Image Denoising

Yuya Onishi, Fumio Hashimoto, Kibo Ote +2

Deep image prior (DIP) has been successfully applied to positron emission tomography (PET) image restoration, enabling represent implicit prior using only convolutional neural netw…

physics.med-ph2022★ 22 cited

Fully 3D Implementation of the End-to-end Deep Image Prior-based PET Image Reconstruction Using Block Iterative Algorithm

Fumio Hashimoto, Yuya Onishi, Kibo Ote +2

Deep image prior (DIP) has recently attracted attention owing to its unsupervised positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction, which does not require any prior training…

physics.med-ph2022★ 40 cited

List-Mode PET Image Reconstruction Using Deep Image Prior

Kibo Ote, Fumio Hashimoto, Yuya Onishi +2

List-mode positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is an important tool for PET scanners with many lines-of-response and additional information such as time-of-fligh…

physics.med-ph2021★ 50 cited

Anatomical-Guided Attention Enhances Unsupervised PET Image Denoising Performance

Yuya Onishi, Fumio Hashimoto, Kibo Ote +4

Although supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often outperform conventional alternatives for denoising positron emission tomography (PET) images, they require many low-…

physics.med-ph2021★ 50 cited

Direct PET Image Reconstruction Incorporating Deep Image Prior and a Forward Projection Model

Fumio Hashimoto, Kibo Ote

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkable performance in positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction. In particular, CNN-based direct PET i…