The potential synergies of visual scene reconstruction and medical image reconstruction

Image reconstruction in nuclear medicine produces valuable volumetric data of vital markers in living bodies. Visual scene reconstruction methods, that aim to recreate a scene from camera images, are also continuously improved by the recent advancements of light-fields and camera systems. The parallels of the two fields are increasingly noticeable as we now have the computing power and methods to take into account transparent materials and ray trace the scattering and other effects of lights for visual scene reconstruction. In this paper, we aim to highlight and analyze the similarities and potential synergies of the two methods.