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Medical image synthesis remains challenging due to misalignment noise during training. Existing methods have attempted to address this challenge by incorporating a registration-guided module. However, these methods tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chuanpu Li , Zeli Chen , Yiwen Zhang , Liming Zhong , Wei Yang

The aim of latent variable disentanglement is to infer the multiple informative latent representations that lie behind a data generation process and is a key factor in controllable data generation. In this paper, we propose a deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yiming Wu

Medical image synthesis is crucial for alleviating data scarcity and privacy constraints. However, fine-tuning general text-to-image (T2I) models remains challenging, mainly due to the significant modality gap between complex visual details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xin Huang , Junjie Liang , Qingshan Hou , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Xiaoli Liu , Osmar R. Zaiane

Due to privacy issues and limited amount of publicly available labeled datasets in the domain of medical imaging, we propose an image generation pipeline to synthesize 3D echocardiographic images with corresponding ground truth labels, to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Cristiana Tiago , Andrew Gilbert , Ahmed S. Beela , Svein Arne Aase , Sten Roar Snare , Jurica Sprem

We propose a hybrid controllable image generation method to synthesize anatomically meaningful 3D+t labeled Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) images. Our hybrid method takes the mechanistic 4D eXtended CArdiac Torso (XCAT) heart model as the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani , Sina Amirrajab , Cristian Lorenz , Juergen Weese , Josien Pluim , Marcel Breeuwer

Synthetic cardiac MRI (CMRI) generation has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the scarcity of annotated medical imaging data. Recent advances in GANs, VAEs, diffusion probabilistic models, and flow-matching techniques aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ishan Kumarasinghe , Dasuni Kawya , Madhura Edirisooriya , Isuri Devindi , Isuru Nawinne , Vajira Thambawita

Synthetic data generation plays a crucial role in medical research by mitigating privacy concerns and enabling large-scale patient data analysis. This study presents a beta-Variational Autoencoder Graph Convolutional Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Francesco Fabbri , Martino Andrea Scarpolini , Angelo Iollo , Francesco Viola , Francesco Tudisco

The idea of disentangled representations is to reduce the data to a set of generative factors that produce it. Typically, such representations are vectors in latent space, where each coordinate corresponds to one of the generative factors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Alexandr Korchemnyi , Alexey K. Kovalev , Aleksandr I. Panov

The success and generalisation of deep learning algorithms heavily depend on learning good feature representations. In medical imaging this entails representing anatomical information, as well as properties related to the specific imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Agisilaos Chartsias , Thomas Joyce , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Scott Semple , Michelle Williams , David Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Privacy concerns around sharing personally identifiable information are a major practical barrier to data sharing in medical research. However, in many cases, researchers have no interest in a particular individual's information but rather…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 August DuMont Schütte , Jürgen Hetzel , Sergios Gatidis , Tobias Hepp , Benedikt Dietz , Stefan Bauer , Patrick Schwab

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

Segmentation of enhancement in LGE cardiac MRI is critical for diagnosing various ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. However, creating pixel-level annotations for these images is challenging and labor-intensive, leading to limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Athira J. Jacob , Puneet Sharma , Daniel Rueckert

While deep learning holds great promise for disease diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, its progress is often constrained by highly imbalanced and biased training datasets. To address this issue, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Grzegorz Skorupko , Richard Osuala , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Kaisar Kushibar , Vien Ngoc Dang , Nay Aung , Steffen E Petersen , Karim Lekadir , Polyxeni Gkontra

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) GANs for human heads synthesize and render photorealistic 3D models in real-time and offer a vast variety in identity and appearance. However, controlling specific semantic attributes such as hair color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florian Barthel , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Wieland Morgenstern , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

There has been an increasing focus in learning interpretable feature representations, particularly in applications such as medical image analysis that require explainability, whilst relying less on annotated data (since annotations can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Gabriele Valvano , Agisilaos Chartsias , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma

Incorporation of prior knowledge about organ shape and location is key to improve performance of image analysis approaches. In particular, priors can be useful in cases where images are corrupted and contain artefacts due to limitations in…

Artificial data synthesis is currently a well studied topic with useful applications in data science, computer vision, graphics and many other fields. Generating realistic data is especially challenging since human perception is highly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gil Shamai , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Supervised deep learning methods typically rely on large datasets for training. Ethical and practical considerations usually make it difficult to access large amounts of healthcare data, such as medical images, with known task-specific…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Marta Varela , Anil A Bharath

Image translation across domains for unpaired datasets has gained interest and great improvement lately. In medical imaging, there are multiple imaging modalities, with very different characteristics. Our goal is to use cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Leo Segre , Or Hirschorn , Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv