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Detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) enable direct inference of stellar and orbital properties across diverse stellar populations. However, inference typically requires computationally intensive forward modeling and radial velocity (RV)…

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Lesions or organ boundaries visible through medical imaging data are often ambiguous, thus resulting in significant variations in multi-reader delineations, i.e., the source of aleatoric uncertainty. In particular, quantifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Thibault Marin , Georges El Fakhri , Jonghye Woo

Expansion of diffusion MRI (dMRI) both into the realm of strong gradients, and into accessible imaging with portable low-field devices, brings about the challenge of gradient nonlinearities. Spatial variations of the diffusion gradients…

Inverse problems, i.e., estimating parameters of physical models from experimental data, are ubiquitous in science and engineering. The Bayesian formulation is the gold standard because it alleviates ill-posedness issues and quantifies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Sharmila Karumuri , Ilias Bilionis

Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoyi Wen , Fei Jiang

Fiber orientation distribution (FOD) is an advanced diffusion MRI modeling technique that represents complex white matter fiber configurations, and a key step for subsequent brain tractography and connectome analysis. Its reliability and…

Probabilistic atlas priors have been commonly used to derive adaptive and robust brain MRI segmentation algorithms. Widely-used neuroimage analysis pipelines rely heavily on these techniques, which are often computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Adrian V. Dalca , Evan Yu , Polina Golland , Bruce Fischl , Mert R. Sabuncu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

We introduce an ordinary differential equation (ODE) based deep generative method for learning conditional distributions, named Conditional F\"ollmer Flow. Starting from a standard Gaussian distribution, the proposed flow could approximate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-14 Jinyuan Chang , Zhao Ding , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Diffusion models may be viewed as hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) with two improvements: parameter sharing for the conditional distributions in the generative process and efficient computation of the loss as independent terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Beatrix M. G. Nielsen , Anders Christensen , Andrea Dittadi , Ole Winther

Deep neural networks (DNNs) remain challenged by distribution shifts in complex open-world domains like automated driving (AD): Robustness against yet unknown novel objects (semantic shift) or styles like lighting conditions (covariate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mert Keser , Halil Ibrahim Orhan , Niki Amini-Naieni , Gesina Schwalbe , Alois Knoll , Matthias Rottmann

The recent literature on deep learning offers new tools to learn a rich probability distribution over high dimensional data such as images or sounds. In this work we investigate the possibility of learning the prior distribution over neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 Alexandre Lacoste , Thomas Boquet , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris Oreshkin , Wonchang Chung , David Krueger

Subject-specific cardiovascular models rely on parameter estimation using measurements such as 4D Flow MRI data. However, acquiring high-resolution, high-fidelity functional flow data is costly and taxing for the patient. As a result, there…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Miriam Löcke , Ahmed Attia , Dariusz Ucínski , Cristóbal Bertoglio

Bayesian inference allows machine learning models to express uncertainty. Current machine learning models use only a single learnable parameter combination when making predictions, and as a result are highly overconfident when their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Andrew Wood , Moshik Hershcovitch , Daniel Waddington , Sarel Cohen , Peter Chin

Purpose: To develop an algorithm for robust partial Fourier (PF) reconstruction applicable to diffusion-weighted (DW) images with non-smooth phase variations. Methods: Based on an unrolled proximal splitting algorithm, a neural network…

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As models of cognition grow in complexity and number of parameters, Bayesian inference with standard methods can become intractable, especially when the data-generating model is of unknown analytic form. Recent advances in simulation-based…

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Fiber tractography is an important tool of computational neuroscience that enables reconstructing the spatial connectivity and organization of white matter of the brain. Fiber tractography takes advantage of diffusion Magnetic Resonance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Tomer Weiss , Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Oleg Michailovich , AlexBronstein

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly, without task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Saurabh Saxena , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

Constructing a robust model that can effectively generalize to test samples under distribution shifts remains a significant challenge in the field of medical imaging. The foundational models for vision and language, pre-trained on extensive…

An incomplete field-of-view (FOV) in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) can severely hinder the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain white matter connectivity. Although existing works have investigated imputing the missing…

Multispectral image analysis is a relatively promising field of research with applications in several areas, such as medical imaging and satellite monitoring. A considerable number of current methods of analysis are based on parametric…