Learning and Optimization for Medical Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

We all know that imaging plays an essential role in medicine today: radiography, different kinds of tomography, magnetic resonance and echography (just to mention the most widespread imaging technologies) play a central role in modern medicine by supporting the diagnosis and treatment of a disease.

At the heart of every medical imaging technology, there is a sophisticated algorithm to reconstruct an image from the measured data, according to a physics-driven model of the measurement process. Moreover, post-processing applications such as denoising, deblurring, image segmentation and object detection are crucial to improve the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment. The latest technologies have introduced new challenges. Some of these problems are mathematically characterized as inverse problems. Optimization models and algorithms have been occupying a central stage in imaging applications; recently, deep learning approaches have been widely introduced to face the new challenges produced by the latest technologies.

We invite authors to submit original research papers related to different medical imaging applications. Papers focusing on numerical optimization and regularization algorithms, as well as contributions proposing new, robust deep-learning-based techniques, are welcome.

Dr. Simona Moldovanu 
Dr. Elena Morotti
Guest Editors

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