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Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have enabled controllable image synthesis for many vision and graphics applications. However, recent cGANs are 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute-intensive than modern recognition CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Muyang Li , Ji Lin , Yaoyao Ding , Zhijian Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Song Han

With the increasing popularity of PET-MR scanners in clinical applications, synthesis of CT images from MR has been an important research topic. Accurate PET image reconstruction requires attenuation correction, which is based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Snehashis Roy , John A. Butman , Dzung L. Pham

Medical image synthesis is a challenging task due to the scarcity of paired data. Several methods have applied CycleGAN to leverage unpaired data, but they often generate inaccurate mappings that shift the anatomy. This problem is further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Minh Hieu Phan , Zhibin Liao , Johan W. Verjans , Minh-Son To

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve excellent computer-assisted diagnosis with sufficient annotated training data. However, most medical imaging datasets are small and fragmented. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Changhee Han , Leonardo Rundo , Ryosuke Araki , Yudai Nagano , Yujiro Furukawa , Giancarlo Mauri , Hideki Nakayama , Hideaki Hayashi

The computational requirements of generative adversarial networks (GANs) exceed the limit of conventional Von Neumann architectures, necessitating energy efficient alternatives such as neuromorphic spintronics. This work presents a hybrid…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Saumya Gupta , Abhinandan , Venkatesh vadde , Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Abhishek Sharma

This study introduces an innovative application of Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (C-GAN) integrated with Stacked Hourglass Networks (SHGN) aimed at enhancing image segmentation, particularly in the challenging environment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Haowei Yang , Yuxiang Hu , Shuyao He , Ting Xu , Jiajie Yuan , Xingxin Gu

Adaptive radiotherapy is a growing field of study in cancer treatment due to it's objective in sparing healthy tissue. The standard of care in several institutions includes longitudinal cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) acquisitions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 William Trung Le , Chulmin Bang , Philippine Cordelle , Daniel Markel , Phuc Felix Nguyen-Tan , Houda Bahig , Samuel Kadoury

Existing deep learning-based approaches for histopathology image analysis require large annotated training sets to achieve good performance; but annotating histopathology images is slow and resource-intensive. Conditional generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Sujata Butte , Haotian Wang , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski

CycleGAN (Zhu et al. 2017) is one recent successful approach to learn a transformation between two image distributions. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate an intriguing property of the model: CycleGAN learns to "hide" information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Casey Chu , Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler

Computed tomography (CT) is essential for treatment and diagnostics; In case CT are missing or otherwise difficult to obtain, methods for generating synthetic CT (sCT) images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are sought after.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Emily Honey , Anders Helbo , Jens Petersen

Automatic segmentation of white matter hyperintensities in magnetic resonance images is of paramount clinical and research importance. Quantification of these lesions serve as a predictor for risk of stroke, dementia and mortality. During…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Julian Alberto Palladino , Diego Fernandez Slezak , Enzo Ferrante

Reconstruction of CT images from a limited set of projections through an object is important in several applications ranging from medical imaging to industrial settings. As the number of available projections decreases, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anish Lahiri , Marc Klasky , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Johannes Thalhammer , Tina Dorosti , Sebastian Peterhansl , Daniela Pfeiffer , Franz Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

With the effective application of deep learning in computer vision, breakthroughs have been made in the research of super-resolution images reconstruction. However, many researches have pointed out that the insufficiency of the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yibo Guo , Haidi Wang , Yiming Fan , Shunyao Li , Mingliang Xu

Annotating nuclei in microscopy images for the training of neural networks is a laborious task that requires expert knowledge and suffers from inter- and intra-rater variability, especially in fluorescence microscopy. Generative networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Jonas Utz , Tobias Weise , Maja Schlereth , Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Mingxuan Gu , Stefan Uderhardt , Katharina Breininger

We present an effective post-processing method to reduce the artifacts from sparsely reconstructed cone-beam CT (CBCT) images. The proposed method is based on the state-of-the-art, image-to-image generative models with a perceptual loss as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Haofu Liao , Zhimin Huo , William J. Sehnert , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Poor tissue visualization and quantitative accuracy in CBCT is a major barrier in expanding the role of CBCT imaging from target localization to quantitative treatment monitoring and plan adaptations in radiation therapy sessions. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Farhang Bayat , Dan Ruan , Moyed Miften , Cem Altunbas

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems, with their flexibility, present a promising avenue for direct point-of-care medical imaging, particularly in critical scenarios such as acute stroke assessment. However, the integration of CBCT…

In the context of large-angle cone-beam tomography (CBCT), we present a practical iterative reconstruction (IR) scheme designed for rapid convergence as required for large datasets. The robustness of the reconstruction is provided by the…

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction is a severely ill-posed linear inverse task demanding time and resource intensive computations that can substantially trade off {\it accuracy} for {\it speed} in real-time imaging. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Morteza Mardani , Enhao Gong , Joseph Y. Cheng , Shreyas Vasanawala , Greg Zaharchuk , Marcus Alley , Neil Thakur , Song Han , William Dally , John M. Pauly , Lei Xing