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In this work, we develop a novel technique for reconstructing images from projection-based nano- and microtomography. Our contribution focuses on enhancing reconstruction quality, particularly for specimen composed of homogeneous material…

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Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

Image segmentation is an important median level vision topic. Accurate and efficient multiphase segmentation for images with intensity inhomogeneity is still a great challenge. We present a new two-stage multiphase segmentation method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Xueyan Guo , Yunhua Xue , Chunlin Wu

We propose a direct reconstruction algorithm for Computed Tomography, based on a local fusion of a few preliminary image estimates by means of a non-linear fusion rule. One such rule is based on a signal denoising technique which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

In this paper, we present a new image segmentation method based on the concept of sparse subset selection. Starting with an over-segmentation, we adopt local spectral histogram features to encode the visual information of the small segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Farhad Kamangar

Image segmentation and image restoration are two important topics in image processing with great achievements. In this paper, we propose a new multiphase segmentation model by combining image restoration and image segmentation models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Xiaohao Cai

This work presents a region-growing image segmentation approach based on superpixel decomposition. From an initial contour-constrained over-segmentation of the input image, the image segmentation is achieved by iteratively merging similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Mahaman Sani Chaibou , Pierre-Henri Conze , Karim Kalti , Basel Solaiman , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

Image segmentation is an essential component in many image processing and computer vision tasks. The primary goal of image segmentation is to simplify an image for easier analysis, and there are two broad approaches for achieving this: edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 J. N. Mueller , J. N. Corcoran

A levelset free but a hybrid image segmentation approach based on a modified version of the piece wise constant shape gradient of an Mumford Shah shape functional and a repulsive function is considered. The segmentation is performed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shafeequdheen Palengara , Jyotiranjan Nayak , Vijayakrishna Rowthu

Image optimization problems encompass many applications such as spectral fusion, deblurring, deconvolution, dehazing, matting, reflection removal and image interpolation, among others. With current image sizes in the order of megabytes, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Majed El Helou , Frederike Dümbgen , Radhakrishna Achanta , Sabine Süsstrunk

Tumor segmentation in whole-slide images of histology slides is an important step towards computer-assisted diagnosis. In this work, we propose a tumor segmentation framework based on the novel concept of persistent homology profiles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Talha Qaiser , Yee-Wah Tsang , Daiki Taniyama , Naoya Sakamoto , Kazuaki Nakane , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

To segment 4K or 6K ultra high-resolution images needs extra computation consideration in image segmentation. Common strategies, such as down-sampling, patch cropping, and cascade model, cannot address well the balance issue between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tiancheng Shen , Yuechen Zhang , Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Xingyu Xie , Jianlong Wu , Zhe Lin , Jiaya Jia

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

Fluorescence microscopy has become a widely used tool for studying various biological structures of in vivo tissue or cells. However, quantitative analysis of these biological structures remains a challenge due to their complexity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Soonam Lee , Chichen Fu , Paul Salama , Kenneth W. Dunn , Edward J. Delp

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation techniques have shown promising results when evaluated based on conventional metrics such as the Dice score or Intersection-over-Union. However, these fully automatic methods often fail to meet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Cheng Ouyang , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Geodesic models are known as an efficient tool for solving various image segmentation problems. Most of existing approaches only exploit local pointwise image features to track geodesic paths for delineating the objective boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Li Liu , Da Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

Image semantic segmentation aims at the pixel-level classification of images, which has requirements for both accuracy and speed in practical application. Existing semantic segmentation methods mainly rely on the high-resolution input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tianjiao Jiang , Yi Jin , Tengfei Liang , Xu Wang , Yidong Li

We present a parametric deformable model which recovers image components with a complexity independent from the resolution of input images. The proposed model also automatically changes its topology and remains fully compatible with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Jacques-Olivier Lachaud , Benjamin Taton

Existing research highlights the crucial role of topological priors in image segmentation, particularly in preserving essential structures such as connectivity and genus. Accurately capturing these topological features often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenxiao Li , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jun Liu

This paper addresses the automatic image segmentation problem in a region merging style. With an initially over-segmented image, in which the many regions (or super-pixels) with homogeneous color are detected, image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Bo Peng , Lei Zhang , David Zhang