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In clinical practice, medical image analysis often requires efficient execution on resource-constrained mobile devices. However, existing mobile models-primarily optimized for natural images-tend to perform poorly on medical tasks due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Fenghe Tang , Bingkun Nian , Jianrui Ding , Wenxin Ma , Quan Quan , Chengqi Dong , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Most existing learning-based methods for solving imaging inverse problems can be roughly divided into two classes: iterative algorithms, such as plug-and-play and diffusion methods leveraging pretrained denoisers, and unrolled architectures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Matthieu Terris , Samuel Hurault , Maxime Song , Julian Tachella

Computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in clinical settings because it delivers detailed 3D images of the human body. However, performing CT scans is not always feasible due to radiation exposure and limitations in certain surgical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xuhui Liu , Zhi Qiao , Runkun Liu , Hong Li , Juan Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Zhen Qian , Baochang Zhang

This paper proposes a multi-channel image reconstruction method, named DeepcomplexMRI, to accelerate parallel MR imaging with residual complex convolutional neural network. Different from most existing works which rely on the utilization of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Shanshan Wang , Huitao Cheng , Leslie Ying , Taohui Xiao , Ziwen Ke , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang

State-of-the-art methods for computer vision rely heavily on the translation equivariance and spatial sharing properties of convolutional layers without explicitly taking into consideration the input content. Modern techniques employ deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Filippos Kokkinos , Ioannis Marras , Matteo Maggioni , Gregory Slabaugh , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is one of the crucial tasks in medical image analysis, which aims to find a unique transformation while preserving the topology and invertibility of the transformation. Deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Ameneh Sheikhjafari , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar , Nilanjan Ray

Delineating the associations between images and a vector of covariates is of central interest in medical imaging studies. To tackle this problem of image response regression, we propose a novel nonparametric approach in the framework of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-04 Daiwei Zhang , Lexin Li , Chandra Sripada , Jian Kang

An efficient despeckling method using a quantum-inspired adaptive threshold function is presented for reducing noise of ultrasound images. In the first step, the ultrasound image is decorrelated by an spectrum equalization procedure due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

In a large class of statistical inverse problems it is necessary to suppose that the transformation that is inverted is known. Although, in many applications, it is unrealistic to make this assumption, the problem is often insoluble without…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall , Alexander Meister

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides exquisite soft-tissue contrast without using ionizing radiation. The clinical application of MRI may be limited by long data acquisition times; therefore, MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Shen Zhao , Lee C. Potter , Kiryung Lee , Rizwan Ahmad

Image denoising is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with applications in photography and medical imaging. While deep learning-based methods have shown remarkable success, their reliance on specific noise distributions limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dongjin Kim , Jaekyun Ko , Muhammad Kashif Ali , Tae Hyun Kim

Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Cagdas Ulas , Christine Preibisch , Jonathan Sperl , Thomas Pyka , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Bjoern Menze

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Daniele Perrone , Paolo Favaro

Purpose. Given the high level of expertise required for navigation and interpretation of ultrasound images, computational simulations can facilitate the training of such skills in virtual reality. With ray-tracing based simulations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Lin Zhang , Tiziano Portenier , Orcun Goksel

Image denoising is a classical problem in low level computer vision. Model-based optimization methods and deep learning approaches have been the two main strategies for solving the problem. Model-based optimization methods are flexible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chang Liu , Zhaowei Shang , Anyong Qin

This paper proposes a novel deep learning approach for single image defocus deblurring based on inverse kernels. In a defocused image, the blur shapes are similar among pixels although the blur sizes can spatially vary. To utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Hyeongseok Son , Junyong Lee , Sunghyun Cho , Seungyong Lee

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Faouzi Benzarti , Hamid Amiri

We present a novel, blind, single image deblurring method that utilizes information regarding blur kernels. Our model solves the deblurring problem by dividing it into two successive tasks: (1) blur kernel estimation and (2) sharp image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Sungkwon An , Hyungmin Roh , Myungjoo Kang

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan