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In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate the universal histogram-based image contrast enhancement (CE) algorithms. Both spatial and gray-level selective down-sampling of digital images are adopted to decrease…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Gang Cao , Huawei Tian , Lifang Yu , Xianglin Huang , Yongbin Wang

We present a self-supervised algorithm for several classification tasks within hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained images of breast cancer. Our method is robust to stain variations inherent to the histology images acquisition process, which…

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In this work we investigate the practicality of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems. Such algorithms have been shown in the machine learning literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Junqi Tang , Karen Egiazarian , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

Reconstructing 3D assets from images, known as inverse rendering (IR), remains a challenging task due to its ill-posed nature. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities for novel view synthesis (NVS) tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hanxiao Sun , YuPeng Gao , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

The detection of nuclei is one of the most fundamental components of computational pathology. Current state-of-the-art methods are based on deep learning, with the prerequisite that extensive labeled datasets are available. The increasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Nicolas Brieu , Armin Meier , Ansh Kapil , Ralf Schoenmeyer , Christos G. Gavriel , Peter D. Caie , Günter Schmidt

Ultrasound super-localization microscopy techniques presented in the last few years enable non-invasive imaging of vascular structures at the capillary level by tracking the flow of ultrasound contrast agents (gas microbubbles). However,…

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Computed Tomographic Imaging Spectrometers (CTIS) capture hyperspectral images in realtime. However, post processing the imagery can require enormous computational resources; thus, limiting its application to non-realtime scenarios. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Larz White , W. Bryan Bell , Ryan Haygood

Medical image super-resolution (SR) is an active research area that has many potential applications, including reducing scan time, bettering visual understanding, increasing robustness in downstream tasks, etc. However, applying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Cheng Peng , S. Kevin Zhou , Rama Chellappa

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has become indispensable for visualizing samples with low absorption contrast. In this regard, speckle-based techniques have shown significant advantages in spatial resolution, phase sensitivity, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Zhi Qiao , Xianbo Shi , Yudong Yao , Michael J. Wojcik , Luca Rebuffi , Mathew J. Cherukara , Lahsen Assoufid

Multi-contrast MRI acquisitions of an anatomy enrich the magnitude of information available for diagnosis. Yet, excessive scan times associated with additional contrasts may be a limiting factor. Two mainstream approaches for enhanced scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Mahmut Yurt , Mohammad Shahdloo , Muhammed Emrullah Ildız , Tolga Çukur

Purpose: To improve the image quality of highly accelerated multi-channel MRI data by learning a joint variational network that reconstructs multiple clinical contrasts jointly. Methods: Data from our multi-contrast acquisition was embedded…

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This paper presents a super-resolution method based on gradient-based adaptive interpolation. In this method, in addition to considering the distance between the interpolated pixel and the neighboring valid pixel, the interpolation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2009-03-25 Jinyu Chu , Ju Liu , Jianping Qiao , Xiaoling Wang , Yujun Li

Conventional super-resolution methods suffer from two drawbacks: substantial computational cost in upscaling an entire large image, and the introduction of extraneous or potentially detrimental information for downstream computer vision…

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Most finger vein feature extraction algorithms achieve satisfactory performance due to their texture representation abilities, despite simultaneously ignoring the intensity distribution that is formed by the finger tissue, and in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Wenxiong Kang , Yuting Lu , Dejian Li , Wei Jia

Purpose: The long scan times of quantitative MRI techniques make motion artifacts more likely. For MR-Fingerprinting-like approaches, this problem can be addressed with self-navigated retrospective motion correction based on reconstructions…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Elisa Marchetto , Sebastian Flassbeck , Andrew Mao , Jakob Assländer

Inconsistency in contrast enhancement can be used to expose image forgeries. In this work, we describe a new method to estimate contrast enhancement from a single image. Our method takes advantage of the nature of contrast enhancement as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Longyin Wen , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

An accurate detection and tracking of devices such as guiding catheters in live X-ray image acquisitions is an essential prerequisite for endovascular cardiac interventions. This information is leveraged for procedural guidance, e.g.,…

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Inspired by their success in solving challenging inverse problems in computer vision, implicit neural representations (INRs) have been recently proposed for reconstruction in low-dose/sparse-view X-ray computed tomography (CT). An INR…

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