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We present the first acquisition-agnostic diffusion generative model for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to solve a range of inverse problems for shortening scan time and improving motion…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Jonathan I. Tamir

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yang Zhao , Tingbo Hou , Yu-Chuan Su , Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li , Matthias Grundmann

Video generation using diffusion-based models is constrained by high computational costs due to the frame-wise iterative diffusion process. This work presents a Diffusion Reuse MOtion (Dr. Mo) network to accelerate latent video generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Chenyu Wang , Shuo Yan , Yixuan Chen , Yujiang Wang , Mingzhi Dong , Xiaochen Yang , Dongsheng Li , Robert P. Dick , Qin Lv , Fan Yang , Tun Lu , Ning Gu , Li Shang

Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yuan Bi , Lucie Huang , Ricarda Clarenbach , Reza Ghotbi , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Generative diffusion models (DM) have been extensively utilized in image super-resolution (ISR). Most of the existing methods adopt the denoising loss from DDPMs for model optimization. We posit that introducing reward feedback learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Qinwei Lin , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Lin Ma

Conditional medical image generation plays an important role in many clinically relevant imaging tasks. However, existing methods still face a fundamental challenge in balancing inference efficiency, patient-specific fidelity, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zirong Li , Siyuan Mei , Weiwen Wu , Andreas Maier , Lina Gölz , Yan Xia

Generating healthy counterfactuals from pathological images holds significant promise in medical imaging, e.g., in anomaly detection or for application of analysis tools that are designed for healthy scans. These counterfactuals should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ana Lawry Aguila , Peirong Liu , Marina Crespo Aguirre , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) typically relies on movies containing hundreds or thousands of frames to accurately quantify motion in soft matter systems. Using movies much shorter in duration produces noisier and less accurate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-05 Gildardo Martinez , Justin Siu , Steven Dang , Dylan Gage , Emma Kao , Juan Carlos Avila , Ruilin You , Ryan McGorty

Iterative denoising-based generation, also known as denoising diffusion models, has recently been shown to be comparable in quality to other classes of generative models, and even surpass them. Including, in particular, Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yaniv Benny , Lior Wolf

The ability to recover MRI signal from noise is key to achieve fast acquisition, accurate quantification, and high image quality. Past work has shown convolutional neural networks can be used with abundant and paired low and high-SNR images…

Reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has been positively affected by deep learning. A key challenge remains: to improve generalisation to distribution shifts between the training and testing data. Most approaches aim to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Yuyang Xue , Chen Qin , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

This study aims to develop a novel Cycle-guided Denoising Diffusion Probability Model (CG-DDPM) for cross-modality MRI synthesis. The CG-DDPM deploys two DDPMs that condition each other to generate synthetic images from two different MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Shaoyan Pan , Chih-Wei Chang , Junbo Peng , Jiahan Zhang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Tian Liu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

While diffusion models have set a new benchmark for quality in Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) denoising, their clinical adoption is critically hindered by extreme computational costs, with inference times often exceeding thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tangtangfang Fang , Jingxi Hu , Xiangjian He , Jiaqi Yang

Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Medical imaging modalities including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound are essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning in modern healthcare. However, noise contamination during image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Asadullah Bin Rahman , Masud Ibn Afjal , Md. Abdulla Al Mamun

Diffusion models have achieved cutting-edge performance in image generation. However, their lengthy denoising process and computationally intensive score estimation network impede their scalability in low-latency and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qian Zeng , Jie Song , Han Zheng , Hao Jiang , Mingli Song

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical imaging and radiotherapy is hindered by the limited availability of large imaging data repositories. With recent research and improvements in denoising diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Rowan Bradbury , Katherine A. Vallis , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potent diagnostic tool, but suffers from long examination times. To accelerate the process, modern MRI machines typically utilize multiple coils that acquire sub-sampled data in parallel. Data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Moritz Erlacher , Martin Zach