English
Related papers

Related papers: Structural constrained virtual histology staining …

200 papers

Data augmentation can effectively resolve a scarcity of images when training machine-learning algorithms. It can make them more robust to unseen images. We present a lesion conditional Generative Adversarial Network LcGAN to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Manohar Karki , Junghwan Cho , Seokhwan Ko

Training computer-vision related algorithms on medical images for disease diagnosis or image segmentation is difficult due to the lack of training data, labeled samples, and privacy concerns. For this reason, a robust generative method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Robert V Bergen , Jean-Francois Rajotte , Fereshteh Yousefirizi , Ivan S Klyuzhin , Arman Rahmim , Raymond T. Ng

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Fiber-form optics extends the high-resolution tomographic imaging capabilities of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to the inside of the human body, i.e., endoscopic OCT. However, it still faces challenges due to the trade-off between…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Chengfu Gu , Haoran Zhang , Qi Lan , Weiyi Zhang , Chang Liu , Jianlong Yang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the non-invasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). This work aims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Paria Jeihouni , Omid Dehzangi , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Dabouei , Ali Rezai , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a significant marker of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. In this work we present a system for the automatic quantification of calcium score in ECG-triggered non-contrast enhanced cardiac computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 G. Santini , D. Della Latta , N. Martini , G. Valvano , A. Gori , A. Ripoli , C. L. Susini , L. Landini , D. Chiappino

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can play a key role in Medical Image Analysis under large-scale annotated datasets. However, preparing such massive dataset is demanding. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Changhee Han

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is essential for diagnosing conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Accurate retinal layer segmentation enables quantitative biomarkers critical for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Ugyen Tshering

Histological examination is a crucial step in an autopsy; however, the traditional histochemical staining of post-mortem samples faces multiple challenges, including the inferior staining quality due to autolysis caused by delayed fixation…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography is a well-established in vivo imaging technique to assess the overall vascular morphology of tissues and is an emerging field of research for the assessment of blood flow dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Cerine Lal , Hrebesh M Subhash , Sergey Alexandrov , Martin J Leahy

Early identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is crucial for effective preventive care, reducing healthcare burden, and improving patients' quality of life. This study demonstrates the potential of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Cynthia Maldonado-Garcia , Arezoo Zakeri , Alejandro F Frangi , Nishant Ravikumar

Automation in medical imaging is quite challenging due to the unavailability of annotated datasets and the scarcity of domain experts. In recent years, deep learning techniques have solved some complex medical imaging tasks like disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Soumyajyoti Dey , Sukanta Chakraborty , Utso Guha Roy , Nibaran Das

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the most important retinal imaging technique. However, involuntary motion artifacts still pose a major challenge in OCT imaging that compromises the quality of downstream analysis, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yiqian Wang , Alexandra Warter , Melina Cavichini , Varsha Alex , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Deep learning is a popular and powerful tool in computed tomography (CT) image processing such as organ segmentation, but its requirement of large training datasets remains a challenge. Even though there is a large anatomical variability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Chi Nok Enoch Kan , Najibakram Maheenaboobacker , Dong Hye Ye

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is an imaging technique that allows for non-invasive investigation of the microvasculature in the retina. OCTA uses laser light reflectance to measure moving blood cells. Hereby, it visualizes…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-11 Astrid M. E. Engberg , Vedrana A. Dahl , Anders B. Dahl

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technology that provides cross-sectional images of tissues. Dense acquisition of A-scans along the fast axis is required to obtain high digital resolution images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Zezhao Guo , Zhanfang Zhao

At the present time Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is among the most commonly used non-invasive imaging methods for the acquisition of large volumetric scans of human retinal tissues and vasculature. To resolve decisive information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 D. Sitenko , B. Boll , C. Schnörr

The choroid, a highly vascular layer behind the retina, is an extension of the central nervous system and has parallels with the renal cortex, with blood flow far exceeding that of the brain and kidney. Thus, there has been growing interest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Jamie Burke

Segmentation of the coronary artery is an important task for the quantitative analysis of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images and is being stimulated by the field of deep learning. However, the complex structures with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Xiaoyu Yang , Lijian Xu , Simon Yu , Qing Xia , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang

As many other machine learning driven medical image analysis tasks, skin image analysis suffers from a chronic lack of labeled data and skewed class distributions, which poses problems for the training of robust and well-generalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Christoph Baur , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab