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Medical imaging is frequently used in clinical practice and trials for diagnosis and treatment. Writing imaging reports is time-consuming and can be error-prone for inexperienced radiologists. Therefore, automatically generating radiology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zhihong Chen , Yan Song , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiang Wan

Data preparation, i.e. the process of transforming raw data into a format that can be used for training effective machine learning models, is a tedious and time-consuming task. For image data, preprocessing typically involves a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tran Ngoc Minh , Mathieu Sinn , Hoang Thanh Lam , Martin Wistuba

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures a greater level of spectral detail than traditional optical imaging, making it a potentially valuable intraoperative tool when precise tissue differentiation is essential. Hardware limitations of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Charlie Budd , Jianrong Qiu , Oscar MacCormac , Martin Huber , Christopher Mower , Mirek Janatka , Théo Trotouin , Jonathan Shapey , Mads S. Bergholt , Tom Vercauteren

Three-dimensional (3D) medical images, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are essential for clinical applications. However, the need for diverse and comprehensive representations is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Siwen Wang , Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lixian Su , Fandong Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Yizhou Yu

Generation of stroke-based non-photorealistic imagery, is an important problem in the computer vision community. As an endeavor in this direction, substantial recent research efforts have been focused on teaching machines "how to paint", in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jaskirat Singh , Liang Zheng

The effective communication of procedural knowledge remains a significant challenge in natural language processing (NLP), as purely textual instructions often fail to convey complex physical actions and spatial relationships. We address…

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In computer-assisted surgery, automatically recognizing anatomical organs is crucial for understanding the surgical scene and providing intraoperative assistance. While machine learning models can identify such structures, their deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Danush Kumar Venkatesh , Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Fiona Kolbinger , Stefanie Speidel

Automating a robotic task, e.g., robotic suturing can be very complex and time-consuming. Learning a task model to autonomously perform the task is invaluable making the technology, robotic surgery, accessible for a wider community. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Amir Ghalamzan-E

Transformers have gained increasing popularity in a wide range of applications, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision and Speech Recognition, because of their powerful representational capacity. However, harnessing…

In this work we address the problem of real-time dynamic medical MRI and X Ray CT image reconstruction from parsimonious samples Fourier frequency space for MRI and sinogram tomographic projections for CT. Today the de facto standard for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Janki Mehta , Angshul Majumdar

Intraoperative shape reconstruction of organs from endoscopic camera images is a complex yet indispensable technique for image-guided surgery. To address the uncertainty in reconstructing entire shapes from single-viewpoint occluded images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tomoki Oya , Megumi Nakao , Tetsuya Matsuda

We address the task of indoor scene generation by generating a sequence of objects, along with their locations and orientations conditioned on a room layout. Large-scale indoor scene datasets allow us to extract patterns from user-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Xinpeng Wang , Chandan Yeshwanth , Matthias Nießner

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation tasks. Many of these are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). For such methods, the encoder is the key part for global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Hao Li , Dewei Hu , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

We present a transformer-based multimodal framework for generating clinically relevant captions for MRI scans. Our system combines a DEiT-Small vision transformer as an image encoder, MediCareBERT for caption embedding, and a custom…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Yogesh Thakku Suresh , Vishwajeet Shivaji Hogale , Luca-Alexandru Zamfira , Anandavardhana Hegde

Deep reinforcement learning has proven remarkably useful in training agents from unstructured data. However, the opacity of the produced agents makes it difficult to ensure that they adhere to various requirements posed by human engineers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Raz Yerushalmi , Guy Amir , Achiya Elyasaf , David Harel , Guy Katz , Assaf Marron

This paper presents a comprehensive workflow for generating and validating a synthetic dataset designed for robotic surgery instrument segmentation. A 3D reconstruction of the Da Vinci robotic arms was refined and animated in Autodesk Maya…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Giorgio Chiesa , Rossella Borra , Vittorio Lauro , Sabrina De Cillis , Daniele Amparore , Cristian Fiori , Riccardo Renzulli , Marco Grangetto

Automatic captioning of images is a task that combines the challenges of image analysis and text generation. One important aspect in captioning is the notion of attention: How to decide what to describe and in which order. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Michael Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn , Nicolas Pugeault

We are interested in the generation of navigation instructions, either in their own right or as training material for robotic navigation task. In this paper, we propose a new approach to navigation instruction generation by framing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Chengzu Li , Chao Zhang , Simone Teufel , Rama Sanand Doddipatla , Svetlana Stoyanchev

Automatically generating medical reports for retinal images is one of the promising ways to help ophthalmologists reduce their workload and improve work efficiency. In this work, we propose a new context-driven encoding network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jia-Hong Huang , Ting-Wei Wu , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Marcel Worring

Although self-supervised learning enables us to bootstrap the training by exploiting unlabeled data, the generic self-supervised methods for natural images do not sufficiently incorporate the context. For medical images, a desirable method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Li Sun , Ke Yu , Kayhan Batmanghelich