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Lung cancer is highly lethal, emphasizing the critical need for early detection. However, identifying lung nodules poses significant challenges for radiologists, who rely heavily on their expertise for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Hossein Jafari , Karim Faez , Hamidreza Amindavar

Computed tomography (CT) provides highly detailed three-dimensional (3D) medical images but is costly, time-consuming, and often inaccessible in intraoperative settings (Organization et al. 2011). Recent advancements have explored…

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Image-to-image translation is considered a new frontier in the field of medical image analysis, with numerous potential applications. However, a large portion of recent approaches offers individualized solutions based on specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Karim Armanious , Chenming Jiang , Marc Fischer , Thomas Küstner , Konstantin Nikolaou , Sergios Gatidis , Bin Yang

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides rich, complementary information for analyzing diseases. However, the practical challenges of acquiring multiple MRI modalities, such as cost, scan time, and safety considerations, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Zhaohu Xing , Sicheng Yang , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yijun Yang , Jing Qin , Lei Zhu

Image restoration of biological structures in microscopy poses unique challenges for preserving fine textures and sharp edges. While recent GAN-based image restoration formulations have introduced frequency-domain losses for natural images,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 Xingjian Zhang , Claire Leclech , Louison Blivet-Bailly , Abdul I. Barakat , Elsa D. Angelini

Super-resolution (SR) plays a crucial role in improving the image quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI produces multi-contrast images and can provide a clear display of soft tissues. However, current super-resolution methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Chun-Mei Feng , Huazhu Fu , Shuhao Yuan , Yong Xu

Unpaired image-to-image translation has emerged as a crucial technique in medical imaging, enabling cross-modality synthesis, domain adaptation, and data augmentation without costly paired datasets. Yet, existing approaches often distort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zihao Chen , Yi Zhou , Xudong Jiang , Li Chen , Leopold Schmetterer , Bingyao Tan , Jun Cheng

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinics for comprehensive diagnosis and surgical planning. Nevertheless, the segmentation of multi-modal MR images tends to be time-consuming and challenging. Convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Cheng Li , Hui Sun , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

In this paper, we propose a bi-modality medical image synthesis approach based on sequential generative adversarial network (GAN) and semi-supervised learning. Our approach consists of two generative modules that synthesize images of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Xin Yang , Yi Lin , Zhiwei Wang , Xin Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Super-Resolution is the technique to improve the quality of a low-resolution photo by boosting its plausible resolution. The computer vision community has extensively explored the area of Super-Resolution. However, previous Super-Resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Ankur Singh , Piyush Rai

Accurately translating medical images between different modalities, such as Computed Tomography (CT) to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has numerous downstream clinical and machine learning applications. While several methods have been…

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With the development of computer technology, various models have emerged in artificial intelligence. The transformer model has been applied to the field of computer vision (CV) after its success in natural language processing (NLP).…

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Early detection of lung cancer is crucial as it increases the chances of successful treatment. Automatic lung image segmentation assists doctors in identifying diseases such as lung cancer, COVID-19, and respiratory disorders. However, lung…

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Multi-focus image fusion technologies compress different focus depth images into an image in which most objects are in focus. However, although existing image fusion techniques, including traditional algorithms and deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Xiebo Geng , Sibo Liua , Wei Han , Xu Li , Jiabo Ma , Jingya Yu , Xiuli Liu , Sahoqun Zeng , Li Chen , Shenghua Cheng

This paper strives to generate a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image from a magnetic resonance (MR) image. The synthetic CT image is valuable for radiotherapy planning when only an MR image is available. Recent approaches have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Guoyan Zheng , Cees Snoek

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with high resolution (HR) provides more detailed information for accurate diagnosis and quantitative image analysis. Despite the significant advances, most existing super-resolution (SR) reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Gang Yang , Li Zhang , Man Zhou , Aiping Liu , Xun Chen , Zhiwei Xiong , Feng Wu

Purpose: The objective of this work is to introduce an advanced framework designed to enhance ultrasound images, especially those captured by portable hand-held devices, which often produce lower quality images due to hardware constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Shreeram Athreya , Ashwath Radhachandran , Vedrana Ivezić , Vivek Sant , Corey W. Arnold , William Speier

Computed tomography (CT) is one of the modalities for effective lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The features extracted from CT images are now used to quantify spatial and temporal variations in tumors. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Conventional super-resolution (SR) schemes make heavy use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which involve intensive multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations, and require specialized hardware such as graphics processing units. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Binxiao Huang , Jason Chun Lok Li , Jie Ran , Boyu Li , Jiajun Zhou , Dahai Yu , Ngai Wong