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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain has been used to investigate a wide range of neurological disorders, but data acquisition can be expensive, time-consuming, and inconvenient. Multi-site studies present a valuable opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Harrison Nguyen , Richard W. Morris , Anthony W. Harris , Mayuresh S. Korgoankar , Fabio Ramos

Medical imaging plays a critical role in various clinical applications. However, due to multiple considerations such as cost and risk, the acquisition of certain image modalities could be limited. To address this issue, many cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Dong Nie , Lei Xiang , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Multi contrast MRI synthesis is inherently challenging due to the complex and nonlinear relationships among different contrasts. Each MRI contrast highlights unique tissue properties, but their complementary information is difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Himashi Peiris , Kh Tohidul Islam , Tien-Tsin Wong , Zhaolin Chen

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

Deep learning approaches to the segmentation of magnetic resonance images have shown significant promise in automating the quantitative analysis of brain images. However, a continuing challenge has been its sensitivity to the variability of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Dzung L. Pham , Yi-Yu Chou , Blake E. Dewey , Daniel S. Reich , John A. Butman , Snehashis Roy

The recently rising markup-to-image generation poses greater challenges as compared to natural image generation, due to its low tolerance for errors as well as the complex sequence and context correlations between markup and rendered image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Guojin Zhong , Jin Yuan , Pan Wang , Kailun Yang , Weili Guan , Zhiyong Li

The insufficiency of annotated medical imaging scans for cancer makes it challenging to train and validate data-hungry deep learning models in precision oncology. We propose a new richer generative adversarial network for free-form 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Qiangguo Jin , Hui Cui , Changming Sun , Zhaopeng Meng , Ran Su

As a powerful technique in medical imaging, image synthesis is widely used in applications such as denoising, super resolution and modality transformation etc. Recently, the revival of deep neural networks made immense progress in the field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Gengyan Zhao , Mary E. Meyerand , Rasmus M. Birn

Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) is a medical imaging technique that plays a crucial role in the detailed visualization and identification of tissue perfusion in abnormal lesions and radiological suggestions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Divya Bharti , Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Sadhana S , Kishore Kumar M , Keerthi Ram , Harsh Agarwal , Ramesh Venkatesan , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) plays an important role in diagnosis and grading of brain tumor. Although manual DCE biomarker extraction algorithms boost the diagnostic yield of DCE-MRI by providing…

Accurate classification of brain tumors from MRI scans is critical for effective treatment planning. This study presents a Hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (HQCNN) that integrates quantum feature-encoding circuits with depth-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Abdullah Al Omar Galib , Nouhaila Innan , Mohamed Bennai

Synthesized medical images have several important applications, e.g., as an intermedium in cross-modality image registration and as supplementary training samples to boost the generalization capability of a classifier. Especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zizhao Zhang , Lin Yang , Yefeng Zheng

Purpose: To develop an efficient dual-domain reconstruction framework for multi-contrast MRI, with the focus on minimising cross-contrast misalignment in both the image and the frequency domains to enhance optimisation. Theory and Methods:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Junwei Yang , Pietro Liò

Purpose: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams include multiple series with varying contrast and redundant information. For instance, T2-FLAIR contrast is based upon tissue T2 decay and the presence of water, also present in T2- and…

This paper presents a method for virtual contrast enhancement in breast MRI, offering a promising non-invasive alternative to traditional contrast agent-based DCE-MRI acquisition. Using a conditional generative adversarial network, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Richard Osuala , Smriti Joshi , Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Lidia Garrucho , Walter H. L. Pinaya , Daniel M. Lang , Julia A. Schnabel , Oliver Diaz , Karim Lekadir

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful learning methods for recommender systems owing to their robustness in handling complicated user-item interactions. Recently, the integration of contrastive learning with GNNs has demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Junfeng Long , Hao Wu

Recently, Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has been widely used in Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification due to its satisfactory performance. However, the number of labeled pixels is very limited in HSI, and thus the available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wentao Yu , Sheng Wan , Guangyu Li , Jian Yang , Chen Gong

In medical imaging, image synthesis is the estimation process of one image (sequence, modality) from another image (sequence, modality). Since images with different modalities provide diverse biomarkers and capture various features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Firoozeh Shomal Zadeh , Sevda Molani , Maysam Orouskhani , Marziyeh Rezaei , Mehrzad Shafiei , Hossein Abbasi

Medical image synthesis has gained a great focus recently, especially after the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs have been used widely to provide anatomically-plausible and diverse samples for augmentation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Basel Alyafi , Oliver Diaz , Joan C Vilanova , Javier del Riego , Robert Marti

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…

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