The paper introduces a high‑resolution Rectified Flow Matching model trained on 256×256 chest CT images to serve as a generative prior for CT reconstruction. A two‑stage training strategy—initial strong anatomically informed augmentation followed by fine‑tuning—helps mitigate overfitting and improve structural fidelity. When evaluated on various CT inverse problems, Flow Matching‑based reconstruction methods outperform diffusion‑based algorithms in PSNR, SSIM, and perceptual quality while requiring fewer sampling steps.
By Davide Evangelista
The paper introduces a one‑pass conditional 3D rectified flow (3D Flow) framework for denoising whole‑body PET images, employing an optimized non‑uniform sampling strategy and a linear‑interpolant velocity‑matching objective. It reconstructs a full 3D volume in about 30 seconds, dramatically faster than multi‑hour 3D diffusion models, while maintaining high global image quality and lesion conspicuity even at ultra‑low doses (down to 1/100 of standard). Zero‑shot transfer tests on independent clinical data demonstrate robust performance across datasets and unseen dose levels.
By Jiale Shen, Guolin Wang, Chenhao Wang, Xinhui Su, Wei Luo, Feng Yu
arXiv:2603. 00205v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models, particularly Diffusion Models (DM), have shown strong potential for Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction serving as expressive priors for solving ill-posed inverse problems.
By Jiayang Shi, Lincen Yang, Zhong Li, Tristan van Leeuwen, Daniel M. Pelt, K. Joost Batenburg
Generative Translation Priors (GTP) is a Bayesian framework that repurposes diffusion-based image-to-image translation models as cross-modality priors for ill‑posed imaging inverse problems. It incorporates target‑domain measurements via likelihood guidance, steering the translation toward the desired posterior distribution. The authors analyze the resulting posterior dynamics, identify an intrinsic bias from likelihood guidance, and propose a ground‑truth‑free metric to estimate this bias, leading to two discretized GTP algorithms that demonstrate high‑fidelity reconstruction in CT and PET imaging using complementary side information.
By Evan Bell, Jiaming Liu, Yifan Chen, Yu Sun
arXiv:2609.12860v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) provide complementary anatomical and functional information for cancer diagnosis and tr...
By Sarita Mourya, Francesco Di Feola, Pierangelo Veltri, Paolo Soda
arXiv:2610.17401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Incomplete field-of-view (FOV) diffusion MRI (dMRI) acquisitions compromise whole-brain white matter analysis by excluding brain regions from tractogra...
By Gaurav Rudravaram, Lianrui Zuo, Ema Topolnjak, Michael E. Kim, Adam M. Saunders, Elyssa M. McMaster, Paula Trujillo, Ely E. Wesley, Colin D. McKnight, Pratik P. Pandharipande, Mayur B. Patel, Cayce Strength, Brenda T. Pund, Amelia W Maiga, Robert S. Dittus, David A. Bennett, Julie A. Schneider, Konstantinos Arfanakis, The HABS-HD Study Team, Derek B. Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, Yelena Bodien, Daniel C. Moyer, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman
arXiv:2606. 16212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view CT reduces radiation dose and scanning time by acquiring fewer projection views, but angular undersampling makes reconstruction severely ill-posed, causing streak artifacts, structural blurring, and loss of fine details.
By Jigang Duan, Jiayi Wang, Heran Wang, Ping Yang, Genwei Ma, Xing Zhao
arXiv:2509. 21913v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background: Cone-beam computed tomography CBCT is a commonly used modality for image guided radiotherapy.
By Alzahra Altalib, Chunhui Li, Alessandro Perelli
FlowSGS introduces a flow-based posterior sampling method that combines Split Gibbs Sampling with annealed coupling and Stochastic Interpolants to improve flow priors for inverse imaging. The approach includes a novel timestep correction and accelerated warm-up using one-step flow models, resulting in faster and more accurate performance across various imaging tasks. It also demonstrates the first application of flow-based samplers to a nonlinear inverse problem, namely Fourier phase retrieval, and extends one-step flow models to principled Bayesian inverse imaging.
By Tianao Li, Xinhui Qian, Emma Alexander
arXiv:2606. 28513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positron emission tomography (PET) seeks to balance diagnostic quality with ra-diation dose.
By Raymond Confidence, Udunna C. Anazodo
arXiv:2607. 11941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computed tomography (CT) is a critical imaging modality for clinical diagnosis, but reducing radiation dose inevitably introduces severe noise and structured artifacts that degrade image quality.
By Md Imam Ahasan, Guangchao Yang, A F M Abdun Noor, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S. M. Hasan Mahmud, Md Mahfuzur Rahman
arXiv:2606. 22216v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While longitudinal brain PET imaging is the gold standard for quantifying the spatiotemporal accumulation of Beta-amyloid, its widespread clinical utility is constrained by high operational costs and cumulative radiation risks.
By Yongheng Sun, Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Maureen Kohi, Mingxia Liu