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Self-supervised learning is an efficient pre-training method for medical image analysis. However, current research is mostly confined to specific-modality data pre-training, consuming considerable time and resources without achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yiwen Ye , Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Ziyang Chen , Qi Wu , Yong Xia

Recent self-supervised advances in medical computer vision exploit global and local anatomical self-similarity for pretraining prior to downstream tasks such as segmentation. However, current methods assume i.i.d. image acquisition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Mengwei Ren , Neel Dey , Martin A. Styner , Kelly Botteron , Guido Gerig

Brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MR) are difficult, time-consuming, and prone to human error. These challenges can be resolved by developing automatic brain tumor segmentation methods from MR images. Various deep-learning models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Subin Sahayam , John Michael Sujay Zakkam , Yoga Sri Varshan , Umarani Jayaraman

Lung cancer and covid-19 have one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates in the world. For physicians, the identification of lesions is difficult in the early stages of the disease and time-consuming. Therefore, multi-task learning is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Maria Kędzierska , Przemysław Biecek

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is indispensable for diagnosing and planning treatment in various medical conditions due to its ability to produce multi-series images that reveal different tissue characteristics. However, integrating these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lijun Yan , Siwen Wang , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Despite the impressive advances achieved using deep learning for functional brain activity analysis, the heterogeneity of functional patterns and the scarcity of imaging data still pose challenges in tasks such as identifying neurological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Wenhui Cui , Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

The exponential growth of medical imaging has created significant challenges in data storage, transmission, and management for healthcare systems. In this vein, efficient compression becomes increasingly important. Unlike natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Guofeng Tong , Sixuan Liu , Yang Lv , Hanyu Pei , Feng-Lei Fan

Efficient and fast reconstruction of anatomical structures plays a crucial role in clinical practice. Minimizing retrieval and processing times not only potentially enhances swift response and decision-making in critical scenarios but also…

Accurate and robust medical image classification is paramount for early disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, challenges such as limited annotated data, high intra-class variability, and subtle inter-class differences often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Joao Florindo , Viviane Moura

In medical imaging, the heterogeneity of multi-centre data impedes the applicability of deep learning-based methods and results in significant performance degradation when applying models in an unseen data domain, e.g. a new centreor a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hongwei Li , Timo Loehr , Anjany Sekuboyina , Jianguo Zhang , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

An important component of human analysis of medical images and their context is the ability to relate newly seen things to related instances in our memory. In this paper we mimic this ability by using multi-modal retrieval augmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Tom van Sonsbeek , Marcel Worring

Sparse-View Computed Tomography (SVCT) offers low-dose and fast imaging but suffers from severe artifacts. Optimizing the sampling strategy is an essential approach to improving the imaging quality of SVCT. However, current methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Yingying Fang , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Recently, machine learning-based semantic segmentation algorithms have demonstrated their potential to accurately segment regions and contours in medical images, allowing the precise location of anatomical structures and abnormalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yifei Wang , Chuhong Zhu

Deep learning has demonstrated remarkable achievements in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing deep learning models struggle with poor generalization due to (i) intra-class variations, where the same class appears differently in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Vandan Gorade , Sparsh Mittal , Debesh Jha , Rekha Singhal , Ulas Bagci

Healthcare clinics regularly encounter dynamic data that changes due to variations in patient populations, treatment policies, medical devices, and emerging disease patterns. Deep learning models can suffer from catastrophic forgetting when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Amritpal Singh , Mustafa Burak Gurbuz , Shiva Souhith Gantha , Prahlad Jasti

Segmentation maps of medical images annotated by medical experts contain rich spatial information. In this paper, we propose to decompose annotation maps to learn disentangled and richer feature transforms for segmentation problems in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yizhe Zhang , Michael T. C. Ying , Danny Z. Chen

Purpose. Given the high level of expertise required for navigation and interpretation of ultrasound images, computational simulations can facilitate the training of such skills in virtual reality. With ray-tracing based simulations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Lin Zhang , Tiziano Portenier , Orcun Goksel

Medical image segmentation of tumors and organs at risk is a time-consuming yet critical process in the clinic that utilizes multi-modality imaging (e.g, different acquisitions, data types, and sequences) to increase segmentation precision.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Qisheng He , Nicholas Summerfield , Ming Dong , Carri Glide-Hurst

Image segmentation, the process of dividing images into meaningful regions, is critical in medical applications for accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Although manual segmentation by healthcare professionals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Radiological analysis increasingly benefits from pretrained visual representations that can support heterogeneous downstream tasks across imaging modalities. In this work, we introduce OmniRad, a self-supervised radiological foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Luca Zedda , Andrea Loddo , Cecilia Di Ruberto