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Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a tool for improving accelerated MRI reconstruction. A common strategy among DL methods is the physics-based approach, where a regularized iterative algorithm alternating between data consistency and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Burhaneddin Yaman , Seyed Amir Hossein Hosseini , Steen Moeller , Jutta Ellermann , Kâmil Uǧurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Clinical machine learning models experience significantly degraded performance in datasets not seen during training, e.g., new hospitals or populations. Recent developments in domain generalization offer a promising solution to this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Haoran Zhang , Natalie Dullerud , Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari , Quaid Morris , Shalmali Joshi , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Diffusion-based image generators are promising priors for ill-posed inverse problems like sparse-view X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). As most studies consider synthetic data, it is not clear whether training data mismatch (``domain shift'')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nelas J. Thomsen , Xinyuan Wang , Felix Lucka , Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen

Contrastive pretraining is well-known to improve downstream task performance and model generalisation, especially in limited label settings. However, it is sensitive to the choice of augmentation pipeline. Positive pairs should preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Melanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Galvin Khara , Ben Glocker

As a powerful technique in medical imaging, image synthesis is widely used in applications such as denoising, super resolution and modality transformation etc. Recently, the revival of deep neural networks made immense progress in the field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Gengyan Zhao , Mary E. Meyerand , Rasmus M. Birn

Generating synthetic CT (sCT) from MRI or CBCT plays a crucial role in enabling MRI-only and CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy, improving treatment precision while reducing patient radiation exposure. To address this task, we adopt a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Arnela Hadzic , Simon Johannes Joham , Martin Urschler

There are many computer vision applications including object segmentation, classification, object detection, and reconstruction for which machine learning (ML) shows state-of-the-art performance. Nowadays, we can build ML tools for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Hamza Riaz , Alan F. Smeaton

While deep learning through empirical risk minimization (ERM) has succeeded at achieving human-level performance at a variety of complex tasks, ERM is not robust to distribution shifts or adversarial attacks. Synthetic data augmentation…

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

We propose to harness the potential of simulation for the semantic segmentation of real-world self-driving scenes in a domain generalization fashion. The segmentation network is trained without any data of target domains and tested on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Xiangyu Yue , Yang Zhang , Sicheng Zhao , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Kurt Keutzer , Boqing Gong

Existing facial image super-resolution (SR) methods focus mostly on improving artificially down-sampled low-resolution (LR) imagery. Such SR models, although strong at handling artificial LR images, often suffer from significant performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Zhiyi Cheng , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

We present structured domain randomization (SDR), a variant of domain randomization (DR) that takes into account the structure and context of the scene. In contrast to DR, which places objects and distractors randomly according to a uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aayush Prakash , Shaad Boochoon , Mark Brophy , David Acuna , Eric Cameracci , Gavriel State , Omer Shapira , Stan Birchfield

Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown great success in a variety of control tasks. However, it is unclear how close we are to the vision of putting Deep RL into practice to solve real world problems. In particular, common practice in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Chenyang Zhao , Olivier Sigaud , Freek Stulp , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper strives to generate a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image from a magnetic resonance (MR) image. The synthetic CT image is valuable for radiotherapy planning when only an MR image is available. Recent approaches have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Guoyan Zheng , Cees Snoek

Most publicly available brain MRI datasets are very homogeneous in terms of scanner and protocols, and it is difficult for models that learn from such data to generalize to multi-center and multi-scanner data. We propose a novel data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Maria Ines Meyer , Ezequiel de la Rosa , Nuno Barros , Roberto Paolella , Koen Van Leemput , Diana M. Sima

Most of the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based CT image denoising literature shows that DNNs outperform traditional iterative methods in terms of metrics such as the RMSE, the PSNR and the SSIM. In many instances, using the same metrics, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Prabhat KC , Rongping Zeng , M. Mehdi Farhangi , Kyle J. Myers

Learning a self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) model with great generalization remains significantly challenging. Despite the success of adversarial augmentation in the supervised learning generalization, naively incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yuanqi Yao , Gang Wu , Kui Jiang , Siao Liu , Jian Kuai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

Medical imaging is playing a more and more important role in clinics. However, there are several issues in different imaging modalities such as slow imaging speed in MRI, radiation injury in CT and PET. Therefore, accelerating MRI, reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Qiegen Liu , Qiyang Zhang , Ting Su , Jianwei Chen , Yongshuai Ge , Zhanli Hu , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

Ensuring proper generalization is a critical challenge in applying data-driven methods for solving inverse problems in imaging, as neural networks reconstructing an image must perform well across varied datasets and acquisition geometries.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Emilien Valat , Ozan Öktem