1. A processing component that processes images based on an iterative reconstruction algorithm with regularization and/or de-noising algorithm, the processing component comprising: a set point determiner that determines a quality set point between predetermined lower and upper quality bounds based on a quality variable indicative of an image quality of interest; a comparator that compares, each processing iteration, a quality metric of a current generated image with the quality set point and generates a difference value indicative of a difference between the quality metric and the quality set point; and a regularization factor updater that generates an updated regularization factor for a next processing iteration based on a current value of the regularization factor and at least the quality metric in response to the difference value indicating that the quality metric is outside of a predetermined range about the quality set point.