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Local alignment between medical images and text is essential for accurate diagnosis, though it remains challenging due to the absence of natural local pairings and the limitations of rigid region recognition methods. Traditional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Huimin Yan , Xian Yang , Liang Bai , Jiye Liang

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

Among different existing graph self-supervised learning strategies, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been one of the most prevalent approaches to this problem. Despite the remarkable performance those GCL methods have achieved, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qianlong Wen , Zhongyu Ouyang , Chunhui Zhang , Yiyue Qian , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Self-supervised learning has proven to be an effective way to learn representations in domains where annotated labels are scarce, such as medical imaging. A widely adopted framework for this purpose is contrastive learning and it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hugo Figueiras , Helena Aidos , Nuno Cruz Garcia

High-quality MRI reconstruction plays a critical role in clinical applications. Deep learning-based methods have achieved promising results on MRI reconstruction. However, most state-of-the-art methods were designed to optimize the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Siyuan Dong , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Xiao Chen , Yikang Liu , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) learns node and graph representations by contrasting multiple views of the same graph. Existing methods typically rely on fixed, handcrafted views-usually a local and a global perspective, which limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanan Zhao , Feng Ji , Jingyang Dai , Jiaze Ma , Keyue Jiang , Kai Zhao , Wee Peng Tay

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) relies on semantically consistent graph augmentations, but common local perturbations provide limited control over global structural consistency, motivating a more principled global augmentation strategy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nero Z. Li , Xuehao Zhai , Zhichao Shi , Boshen Shi , Xuhui Jiang

Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural network-based machine-learning techniques have received significant interest for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition and reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Arghya Pal , Yogesh Rathi

The accurate diagnosis of pathological subtypes of lung cancer is of paramount importance for follow-up treatments and prognosis managements. Assessment methods utilizing deep learning technologies have introduced novel approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Yuan Jin , Gege Ma , Geng Chen , Tianling Lyu , Jan Egger , Junhui Lyu , Shaoting Zhang , Wentao Zhu

Structured low-rank (SLR) algorithms, which exploit annihilation relations between the Fourier samples of a signal resulting from different properties, is a powerful image reconstruction framework in several applications. This scheme relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aniket Pramanik , Hemant Aggarwal , Mathews Jacob

Typical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan may take 20 to 60 minutes. Reducing MRI scan time is beneficial for both patient experience and cost considerations. Accelerated MRI scan may be achieved by acquiring less amount of k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Pak Lun Kevin Ding , Zhiqiang Li , Yuxiang Zhou , Baoxin Li

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely used in medical imaging, with sparse-view reconstruction offering an effective way to reduce radiation dose. However, ill-posed conditions often result in severe streak artifacts. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Jiashu Dong , Jiabing Xiang , Lisheng Geng , Suqing Tian , Wei Zhao

Machine unlearning, the efficient deletion of the impact of specific data in a trained model, remains a challenging problem. Current machine unlearning approaches that focus primarily on data-centric or weight-based strategies frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Thang Duc Tran , Thai Hoang Le

Most existing methods usually formulate the non-blind deconvolution problem into a maximum-a-posteriori framework and address it by manually designing kinds of regularization terms and data terms of the latent clear images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Pin-Hung Kuo , Jinshan Pan , Shao-Yi Chien , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recently, the contrastive learning paradigm has achieved remarkable success in high-level tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. However, contrastive learning applied in low-level tasks, like image restoration, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Dongqi Fan , Xin Zhao , Liang Chang

Matrix completion is a widely adopted framework in recommender systems, as predicting the missing entries in the user-item rating matrix enables a comprehensive understanding of user preferences. However, current graph neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Narges Nemati , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang