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Indirect image registration is a promising technique to improve image reconstruction quality by providing a shape prior for the reconstruction task. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid method that seeks to reconstruct high quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Jiulong Liu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Hui Ji , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Automatic retinal layer segmentation with medical images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, serves as an important tool for diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate segmentation due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xiang He , Weiye Song , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Ji Yi , Manishi Desai , Quanqing Xu , Kongzheng Yang , Yi Wan

In this work, we propose a self-supervised learning method for affine image registration on 3D medical images. Unlike optimisation-based methods, our affine image registration network (AIRNet) is designed to directly estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Evelyn Chee , Zhenzhou Wu

State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rémi Flamary

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

The use of laser guide stars in astronomical adaptive optics results in elongated Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor image patterns. Image correlation techniques can be used to determine local wavefront slope by correlating each sub-aperture…

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Optical interferometry provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Through direct observation of rotationally distorted photospheres at sub-milliarcsecond scales, we are now able to…

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Photometric light curves suffer from fundamental degeneracies that limit surface information recovery. We demonstrate that astrometry enables access to complementary information through photocentre variations induced by rotating surface…

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In this paper, a method for Automatic Image Registration (AIR) through histogram is proposed. Automatic image registration is one of the crucial steps in the analysis of remotely sensed data. A new acquired image must be transformed, using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-25 V. Karthikeyan

Medical vision foundational models are used for a wide variety of tasks, including medical image segmentation and registration. This work evaluates the ability of these models to predict disease progression using a simple linear probe. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Basar Demir , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Thomas Hastings Greer , Boqi Chen , Marc Niethammer

In order to estimate a registration model of eye fundus images made of an affinity and two radial distortions, we introduce an estimation criterion based on an error between the vessels. In [1], we estimated this model by minimising the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Guillaume Noyel , R Thomas , S Iles , G Bhakta , A Crowder , D. Owens , P. Boyle

Deformable medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis with applications in disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and image-guided interventions. Despite significant advances in deep learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Muhammad Zafar Iqbal , Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui , Anwar Ul Haq , Imran Razzak

The increasing prevalence of retinal diseases poses a significant challenge to the healthcare system, as the demand for ophthalmologists surpasses the available workforce. This imbalance creates a bottleneck in diagnosis and treatment,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Jia-Hong Huang

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is one of the most versatile super-resolution techniques. Yet, its application to live imaging has been so far mainly limited to fluorescent and stationary specimens. Here, we present advancements in…

The spatial resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is fundamentally limited by the width of Lorentzian point spread functions (PSF) associated with the exponential decay rate of transverse magnetization (1/T2*). Here we show a…

Retinal fundus photographs have been used in the diagnosis of many ocular diseases such as glaucoma, pathological myopia, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. With the development of computer science, computer aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jun Cheng , Zhengguo Li , Zaiwang Gu , Huazhu Fu , Damon Wing Kee Wong , Jiang Liu

Image registration is an essential step in many medical image analysis tasks. Traditional methods for image registration are primarily optimization-driven, finding the optimal deformations that maximize the similarity between two images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Chenyu You , Hao Tang , Deying Kong , Junayed Naushad , Xiangyi Yan , Haoyu Ma , Pooya Khosravi , James S. Duncan , Xiaohui Xie

3-D image registration, which involves aligning two or more images, is a critical step in a variety of medical applications from diagnosis to therapy. Image registration is commonly performed by optimizing an image matching metric as a cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Rui Liao , Shun Miao , Pierre de Tournemire , Sasa Grbic , Ali Kamen , Tommaso Mansi , Dorin Comaniciu

There is a growing need to assist radiologists in performing X-ray readings and diagnoses fast, comfortably, and effectively. As radiologists strive to maximize productivity, it is essential to consider the impact of reading rooms in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Catarina Moreira , Isabel Blanco Nobre , Sandra Costa Sousa , João Madeiras Pereira , Joaquim Jorge

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a micrometer-scale, volumetric imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. OCT instruments image by raster-scanning a focused light spot across the retina, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Stefan Ploner , Siyu Chen , Jungeun Won , Lennart Husvogt , Katharina Breininger , Julia Schottenhamml , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier