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X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

Deformable registration of magnetic resonance images between patients with brain tumors and healthy subjects has been an important tool to specify tumor geometry through location alignment and facilitate pathological analysis. Since tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Chao Yang , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Georges ElFakhri , Jonghye Woo

Motor impairments, frequently caused by neurological incidents like strokes or traumatic brain injuries, present substantial obstacles in rehabilitation therapy. This research aims to elevate the field by optimizing motor imagery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Soham Bafana

Structural optimization is a popular method for designing objects such as bridge trusses, airplane wings, and optical devices. Unfortunately, the quality of solutions depends heavily on how the problem is parameterized. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Stephan Hoyer , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Sam Greydanus

Monitoring diseases that affect the brain's structural integrity requires automated analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) images, e.g., for the evaluation of volumetric changes. However, many of the evaluation tools are optimized for…

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental problem in the computer vision and graphics community. Recent state-of-the-arts solve this problem by individually optimizing each local implicit field during inference. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Jiapeng Tang , Jiabao Lei , Dan Xu , Feiying Ma , Kui Jia , Lei Zhang

Childhood myopia constitutes a significant global health concern. It exhibits an escalating prevalence and has the potential to evolve into severe, irreversible conditions that detrimentally impact familial well-being and create substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Mengtian Kang , Yansong Hu , Shuo Gao , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongbei Meng , Xuemeng Li , Xuhang Chen , Hubin Zhao , Jing Fu , Guohua Hu , Wei Wang , Yanning Dai , Arokia Nathan , Peter Smielewski , Ningli Wang , Shiming Li

Coronary Artery Diseases although preventable are one of the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Due to the onerous nature of diagnosis, tackling CADs has proved challenging. This study addresses the automation of resource-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sandesh Pokhrel , Sanjay Bhandari , Eduard Vazquez , Yash Raj Shrestha , Binod Bhattarai

Tendon injuries like tendinopathies, full and partial thickness tears are prevalent, and the supraspinatus tendon (SST) is the most vulnerable ones in the rotator cuff. Early diagnosis of SST tendinopathies is of high importance and hard to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Meisam Hasani , Babak Shekarchi , Kamran Azema

Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious condition causing a litany of health problems especially in the pediatric population. However, this chronic condition can be treated if diagnosis is possible. The gold standard for diagnosis is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Milad Kiaee , Adam B Kashlak , Jisu Kim , Giseon Heo

Early diagnosis and assessment of repetitive subconcussive (rSC) brain injuries are crucial for early clinical intervention. Conventional methods, largely relying on slow fMRI, fail to capture millisecond-level early cortical dynamics,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-27 Jiajia Li , Zhenzhen Yu , Zhenghao Fu , Guozheng Xu , Jian Song

This paper introduces a new approach based on a coupled representation and a neural volume optimization to implicitly perform 3D shape editing in latent space. This work has three innovations. First, we design the coupled neural shape (CNS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Zhengzhe Liu , Hao Zhang , Chi-Wing Fu

Transcranial ultrasound must overcome the significant challenge of the human skull, limiting both imaging and therapeutic applications. While high-fidelity numerical simulations can compensate for skull-induced distortions, they require…

Understanding the growth and form of shapes is one of the most fundamental problems in biology. While many prior works have analyzed the beak shapes of Darwin's finches, other cranial features are relatively less explored. In this work, we…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Kaikwan Lau , Gary P. T. Choi

Disorder is often considered detrimental to coherence. However, under specific conditions, it can enhance synchronization. We develop a machine-learning framework to design optimal disorder configurations that maximize phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-18 Jun-Yin Huang , Zheng-Meng Zhai , Vassilios Kovanis , Ying-Cheng Lai

In this paper we present a methodology to address the problem of brain tissue deformation referred to as 'brain-shift'. This deformation occurs throughout a neurosurgery intervention and strongly alters the accuracy of the neuronavigation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-09-06 Marek Bucki , Claudio Lobos , Yohan Payan

Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, it can lead to severe disability and has no known cure. The majority of prior work in machine learning for multiple sclerosis has been centered around using Magnetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Alexander Norcliffe , Lev Proleev , Diana Mincu , Fletcher Lee Hartsell , Katherine Heller , Subhrajit Roy

This paper aims to solve a fundamental problem in intensity-based 2D/3D registration, which concerns the limited capture range and need for very good initialization of state-of-the-art image registration methods. We propose a regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Benjamin Hou , Amir Alansary , Steven McDonagh , Alice Davidson , Mary Rutherford , Jo V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker , Bernhard Kainz

Retrospective analysis of brain MRI scans acquired in the clinic has the potential to enable neuroimaging studies with sample sizes much larger than those found in research datasets. However, analysing such clinical images "in the wild" is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Benjamin Billot , Magdamo Colin , Sean E. Arnold , Sudeshna Das , Juan. E. Iglesias

Resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful imaging technique for studying functional development of the brain in utero. However, unpredictable and excessive movement of fetuses has limited clinical application…