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most citedA Review on Low-Dose Emission Tomography Post-Reconstruction Denoising with Neural Network Approaches

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19 papers

physics.med-ph2026

Continuous 3-D Latent Diffusion for Medical Image Generation and Reconstruction

Youness Mellak, Antoine De Paepe, Dimitris Visvikis +1

High-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) medical latent diffusion remains limited by the cost of decoding full volumes, which existing latent autoencoders (AEs) handle through overl…

eess.IV2025

Direct Dual-Energy CT Material Decomposition using Model-based Denoising Diffusion Model

Hang Xu, Alexandre Bousse, Alessandro Perelli

Dual-energy X-ray Computed Tomography (DECT) constitutes an advanced technology which enables automatic decomposition of materials in clinical images without manual segmentation us…

physics.med-ph2025★ 1 cited

Joint Reconstruction of Activity and Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling in Wavelet Coefficient Space

Clémentine Phung-Ngoc, Alexandre Bousse, Antoine De Paepe +6

Attenuation correction (AC) is necessary for accurate activity quantification in positron emission tomography (PET). Conventional reconstruction methods typically rely on attenuati…

physics.med-ph2025

Adaptive Diffusion Models for Sparse-View Motion-Corrected Head Cone-beam CT

Antoine De Paepe, Alexandre Bousse, Clémentine Phung-Ngoc +2

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an imaging modality widely used in head and neck diagnostics due to its accessibility and lower radiation dose. However, its relatively long…

physics.med-ph2025

Material Decomposition in Photon-Counting Computed Tomography with Diffusion Models: Comparative Study and Hybridization with Variational Regularizers

Corentin Vazia, Thore Dassow, Alexandre Bousse +6

Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) has emerged as a promising imaging technique, enabling spectral imaging and material decomposition (MD). However, images typically suffer…

physics.med-ph2025

Semi-Supervised Learning for Dose Prediction in Targeted Radionuclide: A Synthetic Data Study

Jing Zhang, Alexandre Bousse, Chi-Hieu Pham +2

Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) is a modern strategy in radiation oncology that aims to administer a potent radiation dose specifically to cancer cells using cancer-targeting r…

physics.med-ph2025★ 2 cited

Dual-Input Dynamic Convolution for Positron Range Correction in PET Image Reconstruction

Youness Mellak, Alexandre Bousse, Thibaut Merlin +3

Positron range (PR) blurring degrades positron emission tomography (PET) image resolution, particularly for high-energy emitters like gallium-68 (68 Ga). We introduce Dual-Input Dy…

physics.med-ph2025★ 6 cited

Evaluation of Deep Learning-based Scatter Correction on a Long-axial Field-of-view PET scanner

Baptiste Laurent, Alexandre Bousse, Thibaut Merlin +3

Objective: Long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) positron emission tomography (PET) systems allow higher sensitivity, with an increased number of detected lines of response induced by a…

physics.med-ph2025

Joint Reconstruction of the Activity and the Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling: a Feasibility Study

Clémentine Phung-Ngoc, Alexandre Bousse, Antoine De Paepe +3

This study introduces a novel framework for joint reconstruction of the activity and the attenuation (JRAA) in positron emission tomography (PET) using diffusion posterior sampling…

physics.med-ph2025

Solving Blind Inverse Problems: Adaptive Diffusion Models for Motion-corrected Sparse-view 4DCT

Antoine De Paepe, Alexandre Bousse, Clémentine Phung-Ngoc +1

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) is essential for medical imaging applications like radiotherapy, which demand precise respiratory motion representation. Traditional met…

physics.med-ph2024★ 2 cited

Synergistic PET/CT Reconstruction Using a Joint Generative Model

Noel Jeffrey Pinton, Alexandre Bousse, Zhihan Wang +5

We propose in this work a framework for synergistic positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) reconstruction using a joint generative model as a penalty. We use a…

physics.med-ph2024

Direct3γ: A Pipeline for Direct Three-gamma PET Image Reconstruction

Youness Mellak, Alexandre Bousse, Thibaut Merlin +2

This paper presents a novel image reconstruction pipeline for three-gamma (3-γ) positron emission tomography (PET) aimed at improving spatial resolution and reducing noise in nucle…

physics.med-ph2024

CConnect: Synergistic Convolutional Regularization for Cartesian T2* Mapping

Juan Molina, Alexandre Bousse, Tabita Catalán +5

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is fundamental for the assessment of many diseases, due to its excellent tissue contrast characterization. This is based on quantitative techniques…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Multibranch Generative Models for Multichannel Imaging with an Application to PET/CT Synergistic Reconstruction

Noel Jeffrey Pinton, Alexandre Bousse, Catherine Cheze-Le-Rest +1

This paper presents a novel approach for learned synergistic reconstruction of medical images using multibranch generative models. Leveraging variational autoencoders (VAEs), our m…

physics.med-ph2024

Fast-Track of F-18 Positron paths simulations using GANs

Youness Mellak, Konstantinos Chatzipapas, Alexandre Bousse +3

In recent years, the use of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the domain of Medical Physics has become a state-of-the-art technology that consumes lots of computational resources for…

physics.med-ph2024

Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Synergistic Reconstruction in Spectral Computed Tomography

Corentin Vazia, Alexandre Bousse, Béatrice Vedel +6

Using recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models, this paper introduces a new synergistic method for spectral computed tomography (CT) r…

physics.med-ph2024

Spectral CT Two-step and One-step Material Decomposition using Diffusion Posterior Sampling

Corentin Vazia, Alexandre Bousse, Jacques Froment +6

This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse prob…

physics.med-ph2024★ 38 cited

A Review on Low-Dose Emission Tomography Post-Reconstruction Denoising with Neural Network Approaches

Alexandre Bousse, Venkata Sai Sundar Kandarpa, Kuangyu Shi +4

Low-dose emission tomography (ET) plays a crucial role in medical imaging, enabling the acquisition of functional information for various biological processes while minimizing the…

physics.med-ph2023★ 5 cited

Uconnect: Synergistic Spectral CT Reconstruction with U-Nets Connecting the Energy bins

Zhihan Wang, Alexandre Bousse, Franck Vermet +5

Spectral computed tomography (CT) offers the possibility to reconstruct attenuation images at different energy levels, which can be then used for material decomposition. However, t…