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...
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.
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.
arXiv:2509. 21913v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background: Cone-beam computed tomography CBCT is a commonly used modality for image guided radiotherapy.
arXiv:2608. 20112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have shown strong potential for positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction.
arXiv:2607. 07401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While whole-body multimodal medical imaging scanners have been increasingly recognized for more effective medical applications, the excessive long acquisition time in PET-MR scanning is a major obstacle in more efficient clinical practice.
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.
TransNSNet is a Transformer‑enhanced multi‑scale adversarial framework designed for CT‑to‑PET image synthesis. The study curated a paired CT‑PET dataset from a public NSCLC Radiogenomics collection and evaluated the framework against several baselines, reporting that TransNSNet achieved the best mean performance in nine of ten metrics while maintaining a smaller parameter footprint. Statistical analysis found no significant superiority over other models after correction, and the authors caution that synthesized PET‑like images should not replace clinically acquired PET scans.
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.
The paper introduces Dose-Aware Cold Diffusion (DACD), a physics-consistent framework that treats radiation dose as a continuous latent variable in a cold diffusion process for low-dose CT reconstruction. DACD combines dose-aware perception, multi-scale structural priors, and dose-calibrated step allocation to guide denoising, and adds an iterative forward-backprojection correction to enforce projection-domain consistency. Experiments on Mayo-2020, Mayo-2016, and LoDoPaB-CT show DACD outperforms existing diffusion-based and physics-guided methods, especially at ultra-low doses, and generalizes robustly across continuous, unseen dose levels.
The paper introduces Conditional Diffusion Posterior Alignment (CDPA), a method that scales diffusion-based sparse‑view CT reconstruction to large 3D volumes by conditioning a 2D U‑Net diffusion model on an initial 3D reconstruction and enforcing data‑consistency alignment. CDPA addresses high memory demands, limited 3D training data, and slice‑wise inconsistencies, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on synthetic and real Cone Beam CT data. The authors also demonstrate that the same approach improves fast denoising U‑Nets, delivering near‑diffusion quality at a fraction of the computational cost.
arXiv:2606. 24313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-driven image-to-image synthesis is rapidly advancing, with growing applications in medical imaging.