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Deep neural networks have been investigated in learning latent representations of medical images, yet most of the studies limit their approach in a single supervised convolutional neural network (CNN), which usually rely heavily on a large…

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have been used in pre-training the segmentation models for 2D and 3D medical images. Most of these methods are based on reconstruction, contrastive learning and consistency regularization.…

Significant progress has been made in self-supervised image denoising (SSID) in the recent few years. However, most methods focus on dealing with spatially independent noise, and they have little practicality on real-world sRGB images with…

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Low-dose computed tomography (CT) has attracted a major attention in the medical imaging field, since CT-associated x-ray radiation carries health risks for patients. The reduction of CT radiation dose, however, compromises the…

Traditional X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning strategies typically select projection angles uniformly and allocate dose equally. In practice, however, CT scans often need to be fast, radiation-efficient, and adaptive. Sparse-view…

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), image acquisitions are often undersampled in the measurement domain to accelerate the scanning process, at the expense of image quality. However, image quality is a crucial factor that influences the…

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging is critical in aiding doctors in their diagnoses and image-guided treatments. However, acquiring HR images can be time-consuming and costly. Consequently, deep learning-based super-resolution…

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Compared to natural images, hyperspectral images (HSIs) consist of a large number of bands, with each band capturing different spectral information from a certain wavelength, even some beyond the visible spectrum. These characteristics of…

Although supervised learning has enabled high performance for image segmentation, it requires a large amount of labeled training data, which can be difficult to obtain in the medical imaging field. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods…

We investigate the effectiveness of a simple solution to the common problem of deep learning in medical image analysis with limited quantities of labeled training data. The underlying idea is to assign artificial labels to abundantly…

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Deep learning has revolutionized medical image segmentation, but it relies heavily on high-quality annotations. The time, cost and expertise required to label images at the pixel-level for each new task has slowed down widespread adoption…

While various deep learning methods were proposed for low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising, they often suffer from over-smoothing, blurring, and lack of explainability. To alleviate these issues, we propose a plug-and-play…