Dr. Javier Montoya

Projects

• Web-Based Traffic Prediction Engine for Urban Traffic Simulation / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Novel Data-Driven Models for Robust Ultra-Low-Dose PET Image Reconstruction and CT-Free PET Image Synthesis / Project leader / ongoing
• Synthetic data generation of CoVID-19 CT/X-rays images for enabling fast triage of healthy vs. unhealthy patients / Project leader / completed
• Standardized Data and Modeling for AI-based CoVID-19 Diagnosis Support on CT Scans / Team member / completed
• DIR3CT: Deep Image Reconstruction through X-Ray Projection-based 3D Learning of Computed Tomography Volumes / Team member / completed
• RealScore – Scanning of Real-World Sheet Music for a Digital Music Stand / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Tuggener, L. et al. (2024) 'Real world music object recognition', Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 7(1), pp. 1–14. doi: 10.5334/tismir.157.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Cheng, C.-W. et al. (2025) 'Implicit U-KAN2.0 : dynamic, efficient and interpretable medical image segmentation', in Gee, J. C. et al. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025. Cham: Springer, pp. 304–314. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-05141-7_30.
• Mandujano-Cornejo, V. and Montoya-Zegarra, J. A. (2022) 'Polyp2Seg : improved polyp segmentation with vision transformer', in Yang, G. et al. (eds) Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. Cham: Springer, pp. 519–534. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12053-4_39.
• Amirian, M. et al. (2021) 'PrepNet : a convolutional auto-encoder to homogenize CT scans for cross-dataset medical image analysis', in Proceedings of CISP-BMEI'21. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-23318.

Other publications

• Yang, L. et al. (2026) CT-conditioned diffusion prior with physics-constrained sampling for PET super-resolution. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.13901.
• Cheng, C.-W. et al. (2026) ProSMA-UNet : decoder conditioning for proximal-sparse skip feature selection. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.03187.
• Jing, P. et al. (2026) MAP-Diff : multi-anchor guided diffusion for progressive 3D whole-body low-dose PET denoising. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.02012.
• Jing, P. et al. (2026) 3D wavelet-based structural priors for controlled diffusion in whole-body low-dose PET denoising. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.07093.
• Cheng, Y. et al. (2025) DNA-Prior : unsupervised denoise anything via dual-domain prior. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.23124.

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