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The primary motivation of Image-to-Image Transformation is to convert an image of one domain to another domain. Most of the research has been focused on the task of image transformation for a set of pre-defined domains. Very few works are…

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The cycleGAN is becoming an influential method in medical image synthesis. However, due to a lack of direct constraints between input and synthetic images, the cycleGAN cannot guarantee structural consistency between these two images, and…

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MR-only radiotherapy treatment planning requires accurate MR-to-CT synthesis. Current deep learning methods for MR-to-CT synthesis depend on pairwise aligned MR and CT training images of the same patient. However, misalignment between…

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Deep learning methods provide significant assistance in analyzing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in chest computed tomography (CT) images, including identification, severity assessment, and segmentation. Although the earlier developed…

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Recently, paired (e.g. Pix2pix) and unpaired (e.g. CycleGAN) image-to-image translation methods have shown effective in medical imaging tasks. In practice, however, it can be difficult to apply these deep models on medical data volumes,…

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In X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging, the choice of reconstruction kernel is crucial as it significantly impacts the quality of clinical images. Different kernels influence spatial resolution, image noise, and contrast in various ways.…

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Computed tomography (CT) is critical for various clinical applications, e.g., radiotherapy treatment planning and also PET attenuation correction. However, CT exposes radiation during acquisition, which may cause side effects to patients.…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans acquired from different scanners or institutions often suffer from domain shifts owing to variations in hardware, protocols, and acquisition parameters. This discrepancy degrades the performance of…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated a new direction to tackle the image-to-image transformation problem. Different GANs use generator and discriminator networks with different losses in the objective function. Still…

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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…

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Ideally, 360{\deg} imagery could inherit the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) already trained with great success on perspective projection images. However, existing methods to transfer CNNs from perspective to spherical images…

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Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is one of the most influential diagnostic methods. In clinical reconstruction, an effective energy is used instead of total X-ray spectrum. This approximation causes an accuracy decline. To increase the…

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We propose a novel framework for controllable pathological image synthesis for data augmentation. Inspired by CycleGAN, we perform cycle-consistent image-to-image translation between two domains: healthy and pathological. Guided by a…

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With the advent of Deep Learning (DL) techniques, especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), data augmentation and generation are quickly evolving domains that have raised much interest recently. However, the DL techniques are data…

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In medical imaging, a general problem is that it is costly and time consuming to collect high quality data from healthy and diseased subjects. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) is a deep learning method that has been developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Per Welander , Simon Karlsson , Anders Eklund

In StyleGAN, convolution kernels are shaped by both static parameters shared across images and dynamic modulation factors $w^+\in\mathcal{W}^+$ specific to each image. Therefore, $\mathcal{W}^+$ space is often used for image inversion and…

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Medical image translation is an ill-posed problem. Unlike existing paired unbounded unidirectional translation networks, in this paper, we consider unpaired medical images and provide a strictly bounded network that yields a stable…

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Electrical tomography techniques have been widely employed for multiphase-flow monitoring owing to their non invasive nature, intrinsic safety, and low cost. Nevertheless, conventional reconstructions struggle to capture fine details, which…

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