Publications

2026
S. Ploner, L.-S. Schneider, N. K. Waheed, Y. Hwang, A. R. Hassan, J. G. Fujimoto, A. Maier
MICCAI 2026

Investigates how including unlabeled data and meta-ablation studies improves the validation of simulation-based evaluation methods for medical imaging models.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, S. Mei, F. Wu, S. Bayer, P. A. Pérez-Toro, A. Maier, D. Liu, J. Scheuplein
MICCAI 2026

Proposes a Fourier neural operator conditioned on the acquisition trajectory to reconstruct cone-beam CT images from non-circular source orbits.

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A. Bose, T. Gorges, L. Hüttner, L.-S. Schneider, M. Seuret, F. Wu, V. Christlein
ICDAR 2026

Compares lightweight model architectures for translating text embedded in document images, evaluating the trade-off between model size and translation quality.

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S. M. A. Ahad, T. Gorges, L. Hüttner, L.-S. Schneider, F. Wu, M. Seuret, V. Christlein
ICDAR 2026 Workshop

Studies incremental learning strategies for classifying document types from a combination of textual content and layout features as new document classes are introduced over time.

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T. Gorges, J. van der Loop, L. Hüttner, L.-S. Schneider, F. Wu, M. Seuret, V. Christlein
ICDAR 2026 Competition

Introduces CircleID, a large-scale ICDAR 2026 competition using a new 46,155-image dataset of hand-drawn circles to benchmark open-set writer identification and cross-writer pen classification across hundreds of participating teams.

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L.-S. Schneider, A. Maier
Submitted to Inverse Problems

Proposes a differentiable, graded relaxation of Tuy's completeness condition, together with an Effective Spatial Resolution diagnostic, for projection selection in region-of-interest cone-beam CT, and shows via NP-completeness analysis that a submodular greedy algorithm with proven approximation guarantees nearly matches an exact MILP solution.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, M. Thies, S. Mei, P. A. Pérez-Toro, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA), 2026

Analyzes the robustness of a differentiable shift-variant FBP framework for cone-beam CT, showing it remains stable under irregular and non-planar trajectories, tolerates sparse-view acquisition with far lower computational cost than iterative methods, and is more sensitive to spatial sampling distribution than to trajectory ordering.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, C. Ye, A. Maier
Preprints.org, 2026

Presents diffct, a CUDA-accelerated, open-source library providing differentiable forward and exact adjoint operators for 2D parallel-beam, 2D fan-beam, and 3D cone-beam CT, extending from a stable circular-orbit release to arbitrary per-view source/detector trajectories.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, S. Mei, S. Bayer, P. A. Pérez-Toro, A. Maier
Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2026 (BVM Workshop), pp. 328-333

Proposes a differentiable, end-to-end trainable approximate-truncation-robust (ATRACT) CBCT reconstruction network built via known operator learning that optimizes redundancy weights under limited-angle/truncated geometry, improving SSIM and MSE over Parker-weighted analytical reconstruction.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, S. Mei, C. Ye, M. Gu, F. Wagner, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2026 (BVM Workshop), pp. 34-39

Presents Filter2Noise-4D, a zero-shot, interpretable content-adaptive bilateral filtering framework with only about 1.8k parameters that exploits spatio-temporal correlations across neighboring slices to denoise 4D low-dose CT without paired training data or per-protocol retraining.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, S. Mei, J. Wang, G. Hu, M. Gu, C. Ye, F. Wagner, L. Song, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Journal of Medical Imaging 13(2), 024004

Presents Filter2Noise, a self-supervised, interpretable low-dose CT denoising framework built on an attention-guided bilateral filter with a multi-scale loss and Euclidean Local Shuffle training scheme, achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on Mayo Clinic and photon-counting CT data with only about 3.6k parameters.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, M. Gu, C. Ye, D. Liu, Z. Yang, F. Wu, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Submitted to Medical Physics

Proposes a test-time, physics-guided manifold optimization approach to blindly compensate for motion artifacts in single-scan cone-beam CT without requiring external motion sensors or paired training data.

Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, S. Mei, C. Ye, M. Gu, F. Wagner, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Submitted to International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Introduces a motion-aware joint bilateral filter guided by deformable attention to denoise 4D CT data in a zero-shot setting while accounting for inter-phase motion.

Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, M. Gu, S. Mei, C. Ye, L. Cai, J. Wang, G. Hu, D. Liu, Z. Yang, S. Wittl, A. Maier, F. Wu, L. Song
Submitted to SPIE

Proposes Noise2Flow, a single-image denoising method that learns a conditional mean denoising flow from weak anchor couplings instead of paired clean/noisy training data.

2025
L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, C. Ye, M. Michen, A. Maier
Fully3D 2025

Describes an updated PYRO-NN library for differentiable CT reconstruction, adding PyTorch compatibility, native CUDA kernels for parallel/fan/cone-beam projection and back-projection, artifact-simulation tools, arbitrary trajectory modeling, and a high-level API for end-to-end trainable pipelines.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, A. Maier
Fully3D 2025

Introduces a neural network for cone-beam CT reconstruction from non-circular trajectories that replaces the trajectory-dependent filtering component of a differentiable shift-variant FBP model with a trainable 2D Gaussian model, cutting parameters by about 99% and reducing per-trajectory training time to roughly a quarter of the original while preserving reconstruction quality.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, C. Ye, M. Gu, S. Mei, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Fully3D 2025

Introduces an enhanced, interpretable FDK-based neural network for 3D cone-beam CT that uses wavelet transforms to sparsify trainable cosine-weighting and filtering parameters, cutting parameter count by 93.75% while preserving reconstruction quality and the classical FDK's inference cost.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, S. Bayer, A. Maier
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Proposes standardizing non-circular cone-beam CT source trajectories so that a single differentiable shift-variant FBP model, trained once, generalizes across trajectory types instead of requiring per-trajectory retraining.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, A. Schwarz, M. Gu, S. Mei, C. Ye, S. Bayer, A. Maier
Int'l Workshop on Reconstruction and Imaging Motion Estimation (RIME), MICCAI 2025, pp. 76-86

Introduces LSTT, an end-to-end framework that uses a VQ-VAE to tokenize CBCT projections, a temporal transformer to model motion dynamics, and a differentiable FDK layer to directly correct non-rigid respiratory motion from projection data without external gating hardware.

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Y. Sun, L.-S. Schneider, M. Gu, S. Mei, S. Bayer, A. Maier
14th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT), Wels, Austria

Presents a model-agnostic framework that applies 2D generative models slice-by-slice with a through-plane total-variation consistency loss to compensate for motion artifacts caused by mechanical vibration in industrial cone-beam CT.

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L.-S. Schneider, A. Waldyra, Y. Sun, A. Maier
14th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT), Wels, Austria

Proposes a two-step few-view CT reconstruction pipeline that first uses the Discrete Algebraic Reconstruction Technique to generate a binary structural prior, then integrates that prior into a differentiable known-operator-learning framework via gradient-update cropping and prior-informed initialization to reconstruct from sparse, arbitrary-trajectory projection data.

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Y. Zhou, L.-S. Schneider, A. Maier
14th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT), Wels, Austria

Proposes two deep-learning-enhanced alternatives to iterative reconstruction for arbitrary CBCT trajectories — one optimizing shift-variant filtering before reconstruction and one applying a learned filter afterward — that improve reconstruction quality over iterative methods while reducing computation.

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L.-S. Schneider, A. Dhingra, A. Maier
14th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT), Wels, Austria

Proposes optimizing CT scan trajectories using a ResNet-18 model trained to predict defect-detection probability from projections of CAD volumes with embedded artificial defects, then greedily selecting projections that balance high Tuy completeness against task-based defect visibility.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, M. Thies, A. Maier
Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2025: Physics of Medical Imaging 13405, 134052L, pp. 539-544

Applies PCA to the redundancy weights learned by a differentiable shift-variant FBP model for non-circular CBCT trajectories, achieving a 97.25% reduction in trainable parameters without loss of reconstruction accuracy and substantially faster training.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, M. Thies, A. Maier
Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025 (BVM Workshop), pp. 292-297

Shows that a differentiable shift-variant FBP neural network can learn redundancy weights for non-continuous or randomly ordered cone-beam CT trajectories, indicating that data-driven weight learning depends on spatial sampling rather than strict trajectory ordering.

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C. Ye, L.-S. Schneider, Y. Sun, M. Thies, S. Mei, A. Maier
Physics in Medicine & Biology 70(7), 075005

DRACO introduces a differentiable reconstruction framework for cone-beam CT (CBCT) that supports arbitrary imaging orbits, enhancing flexibility and accuracy in CT reconstruction.

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Y. Sun, Y. Huang, Z. Yang, L.-S. Schneider, M. Thies, M. Gu, S. Mei, S. Bayer, F. G. Zöllner, A. Maier
Journal of Medical Imaging 12(1), 014001

EAGLE proposes a novel edge-aware loss function designed to enhance gradient localization, improving the preservation of edge details in CT image reconstruction.

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N. Schiering, S. Eichstädt, M. Heizmann, W. Koch, L.-S. Schneider, S. Scheele, K. D. Sommer
Measurement: Sensors 38, 101503

This paper explores various approaches to modeling measuring systems, ranging from traditional white-box models to advanced cognitive methodologies, highlighting their applications and limitations.

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L.-S. Schneider, J. Peng, A. Maier
Scientific Reports 15(1), 32506

Proposes a reinforcement learning framework combining a modified artificial potential field method with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient and a tailored reward with a compensation term, achieving safer, more energy-efficient obstacle avoidance than baselines including a TD3 variant.

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2024
M. Thies, F. Wagner, N. Maul, Y. Hu, M. Gu, L. Folle, S. Mei, G. Preuhs, M. Manhart, A. Maier
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

This paper introduces a gradient-based approach for fast and accurate compensation of head motion in cone-beam CT, improving reconstruction quality under motion scenarios.

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L. Schneider, P. Krauss, N. Schiering, C. Syben, R. Schielein, A. Maier
Technisches Messen

An overview of data-driven approaches in metrology, highlighting recent advancements and potential future directions.

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F. Sukowski, D. Rauch, R. Schielein, T. Schön, A. Waldyra, M. Fries, A. Maier, L. Schneider, G. Herl, S. Wittl, S. Zabler, S. Zeitel, J. Bissels, C. Becker
e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing

Explores AI-driven automation techniques for robotic CT scanning procedures to improve efficiency and reliability.

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L. Schneider, G. Herl, A. Maier
CT Meeting 2024, Bamberg, Germany

This paper introduces an integer optimization approach for CT trajectories, leveraging a discrete data completeness formulation to enhance imaging performance and efficiency.

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Y. Zhou, L. Schneider, F. Fan, A. Maier
CT Meeting 2024, Bamberg, Germany

Presents a novel sinogram-based technique for localizing defects in CT images, improving diagnostic accuracy.

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Y. Yuan, L. Schneider, A. Maier
CT Meeting 2024, Bamberg, Germany

Investigates the use of gated recurrent units (GRUs) to optimize CT trajectories for enhanced image quality and reduced scanning times.

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Y. Sun, L. Schneider, F. Fan, M. Thies, M. Gu, S. Mei, Y. Zhou, S. Bayer, A. Maier
CT Meeting 2024, Bamberg, Germany

Introduces trainable Fourier series for filter design in filtered back-projection CT reconstruction, achieving improved results over conventional methods.

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C. Ye, L. Schneider, Y. Sun, A. Maier
CT Meeting 2024, Bamberg, Germany

Explores deep learning applications to CT reconstruction, building on the Defrise and Clack algorithm for improved artifact suppression.

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2023
M. Thies, F. Wagner, N. Maul, L. Folle, M. Meier, M. Rohleder, L. Schneider, L. Pfaff, M. Gu, M. Manhart, A. Maier
Physics in Medicine & Biology

Presents a gradient-based learning approach for optimizing fan-beam CT geometries, enhancing image quality and reducing artifacts.

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L. Schneider, M. Thies, C. Syben, R. Schielein, M. Unberath, A. Maier
Fully3D 2023

Describes a task-based approach for generating optimized CT projection sets using differentiable ranking methods.

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M. Thies, F. Wagner, N. Maul, L. Pfaff, L. Schneider, C. Syben, A. Maier
Fully3D 2023

This paper discusses methods for optimizing CT scan geometries, comparing gradient-based and non-gradient-based approaches to improve imaging performance and reduce artifacts.

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2022
L. Schneider, M. Thies, R. Schielein, C. Syben, M. Unberath, A. Maier
12th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT)

Develops a learning-based optimization framework for twin robotic CT systems, enhancing operational efficiency and imaging results.

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