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Recovering high-dimensional statistical structure from limited measurements is a fundamental challenge in hyperspectral imaging, where capturing full-resolution data is often infeasible due to sensor, bandwidth, or acquisition constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Jonathan Monsalve , Kumar Vijay Mishra

The denoising process of diffusion models can be interpreted as an approximate projection of noisy samples onto the data manifold. Moreover, the noise level in these samples approximates their distance to the underlying manifold. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Chenyang Yuan , Changliu Liu , Frank Permenter

A complete first and second order statistical characterization of noise in SENSE reconstructed data is proposed. SENSE acquisitions have usually been modeled as Rician distributed, since the data reconstruction takes place into the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Santiago Aja-Fernandez , Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero , Antonio Trsitan-Vega

In supervised learning for image denoising, usually the paired clean images and noisy images are collected or synthesised to train a denoising model. L2 norm loss or other distance functions are used as the objective function for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yutong Xie , Minne Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Generative diffusion processes are an emerging and effective tool for image and speech generation. In the existing methods, the underline noise distribution of the diffusion process is Gaussian noise. However, fitting distributions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Eliya Nachmani , Robin San Roman , Lior Wolf

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but unfortunately suffers from long scan times which, aside from increasing operational costs, can lead to image artifacts due to patient motion. Motion during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Ajil Jalal , Jonathan I. Tamir

We propose to use Gaussian process regression to accurately estimate the diffusion MRI signal at arbitrary locations in q-space. By estimating the signal on a grid, we can do synthetic diffusion spectrum imaging: reconstructing the ensemble…

Applications · Statistics 2020-01-03 Jens Sjölund , Anders Eklund , Evren Özarslan , Hans Knutsson

Building on recent advances in image generation, we present a fully data-driven approach to rendering markup into images. The approach is based on diffusion models, which parameterize the distribution of data using a sequence of denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yuntian Deng , Noriyuki Kojima , Alexander M. Rush

The present study proposes incorporating non-parametric knowledge into the diffusion least-mean-squares algorithm in the framework of a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation. The proposed algorithm leads to a robust estimation of an unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Soheil Ashkezari-Toussi , Hadi sadoghi-Yazdi

We present a novel method that allows for measuring the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images dependent on the image resolution and the image noise. For this purpose, we introduce a new thresholding technique so that noise and the signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Jan Klein , Sebastiano Barbieri , Miriam H. A. Bauer , Christopher Nimsky , Horst K. Hahn

Anomaly detection has garnered extensive applications in real industrial manufacturing due to its remarkable effectiveness and efficiency. However, previous generative-based models have been limited by suboptimal reconstruction quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hui Zhang , Zheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

The acquisition of MRI images offers a trade-off in terms of acquisition time, spatial/temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Thus, for instance, increasing the time efficiency of MRI often comes at the expense of reduced SNR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-28 Sudipto Dolui , Alan Kuurstra , Iván C. Salgado Patarroyo , Oleg V. Michailovich

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

This paper proposes a novel method for automatic MRI denoising that exploits last advances in deep learning feature regression and self-similarity properties of the MR images. The proposed method is a two-stage approach. In the first stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Jose V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupe

Performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction from under-sampled k-space data can accelerate the procedure to acquire MRI scans and reduce patients' discomfort. The reconstruction problem is usually formulated as a denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Tianqi Xiang , Wenjun Yue , Yiqun Lin , Jiewen Yang , Zhenkun Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yuan Bi , Lucie Huang , Ricarda Clarenbach , Reza Ghotbi , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

This article addresses the issue of estimating observation parameters (response and error parameters) in inverse problems. The focus is on cases where regularization is introduced in a Bayesian framework and the prior is modeled by a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-13 Jean-François Giovannelli

Estimating brain microstructure has important applications in medicine and neuroscience. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging enables measuring microstructure \textit{in vivo}. Conventional biophysical model fitting can be accurate…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Leevi Kerkelä , Hui Zhang

Reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has been positively affected by deep learning. A key challenge remains: to improve generalisation to distribution shifts between the training and testing data. Most approaches aim to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Yuyang Xue , Chen Qin , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris