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Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Arya Bangun , Zhuo Cao , Alessio Quercia , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Water diffusion gives rise to micron-scale sensitivity of diffusion MRI (dMRI) to cellular-level tissue structure. Precision medicine and quantitative imaging depend on uncovering the information content of dMRI and establishing its…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Santiago Coelho , Jenny Chen , Filip Szczepankiewicz , Els Fieremans , Dmitry S. Novikov

Knowledge of the noise distribution in diffusion MRI is the centerpiece to quantify uncertainties arising from the acquisition process. Accurate estimation beyond textbook distributions often requires information about the acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Samuel St-Jean , Alberto De Luca , Chantal M. W. Tax , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Diffusion models learn to restore noisy data, which is corrupted with different levels of noise, by optimizing the weighted sum of the corresponding loss terms, i.e., denoising score matching loss. In this paper, we show that restoring data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jooyoung Choi , Jungbeom Lee , Chaehun Shin , Sungwon Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Magnetic resonance imaging technique known as DWI (diffusion-weighted imaging) allows measurement of water diffusivity on a pixel basis for evaluating pathology throughout the body and is now routinely incorporated into many body MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Andrea Barucci , Roberto Carpi , Marco Esposito , Maristella Olmastroni , Giovanna Zatelli

Axon radius is a potential biomarker for brain diseases and a crucial tissue microstructure parameter that determines the speed of action potentials. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) allows non-invasive estimation of axon radius, but accurately…

We propose an adaptive diffusion mechanism to optimize a global cost function in a distributed manner over a network of nodes. The cost function is assumed to consist of a collection of individual components. Diffusion adaptation allows the…

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Ultrasound curve angle (UCA) measurement provides a radiation-free and reliable evaluation for scoliosis based on ultrasound imaging. However, degraded image quality, especially in difficult-to-image patients, can prevent clinical experts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yihao Zhou , Zixun Huang , Timothy Tin-Yan Lee , Chonglin Wu , Kelly Ka-Lee Lai , De Yang , Alec Lik-hang Hung , Jack Chun-Yiu Cheng , Tsz-Ping Lam , Yong-ping Zheng

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanbo Zhang , Benedikt Hartl , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Biophysical modelling of the diffusion MRI signal provides estimates of specific microstructural tissue properties. Although nonlinear optimization such as non-linear least squares (NLLS) is the most widespread method for model estimation,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Yujian Diao , Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Recent diffusion models provide a promising zero-shot solution to noisy linear inverse problems without retraining for specific inverse problems. In this paper, we reveal that recent methods can be uniformly interpreted as employing a…

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This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Computational imaging, especially non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lianfang Wang , Kuilin Qin , Xueying Liu , Huibin Chang , Yong Wang , Yuping Duan

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is essential for quantitative analyses of cortical thickness and sulcal morphology. Although traditional and deep learning-based algorithmic pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

This work proposes diffusion normalized least mean M-estimate algorithm based on the modified Huber function, which can equip distributed networks with robust learning capability in the presence of impulsive interference. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Y. Yu , H. He , T. Yang , X. Wang , R. C. de Lamare

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

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Ultrasound is a widely accessible and cost-effective medical imaging tool commonly used for prenatal evaluation of the fetal brain. However, it has limitations, particularly in the third trimester, where the complexity of the fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Naomi Silverstein , Efrat Leibowitz , Ron Beloosesky , Haim Azhari

Diffusion models have been leveraged to perform adversarial purification and thus provide both empirical and certified robustness for a standard model. On the other hand, different robustly trained smoothed models have been studied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiawei Zhang , Zhongzhu Chen , Huan Zhang , Chaowei Xiao , Bo Li