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Medical Image Synthesis (MIS) plays an important role in the intelligent medical field, which greatly saves the economic and time costs of medical diagnosis. However, due to the complexity of medical images and similar characteristics of…

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In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

The training of real-world super-resolution reconstruction models heavily relies on datasets that reflect real-world degradation patterns. Extracting and modeling degradation patterns for super-resolution reconstruction using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiyang Tie , Hong Zhu , Yunyun Luo , Jing Shi

Unpaired Medical Image Enhancement (UMIE) aims to transform a low-quality (LQ) medical image into a high-quality (HQ) one without relying on paired images for training. While most existing approaches are based on Pix2Pix/CycleGAN and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Chunming He , Kai Li , Guoxia Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Xiu Li , Yaowei Wang

Self-supervised low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is highly appealing as it eliminates the reliance on external paired data. However, the lack of external references causes networks to struggle with decoupling entangled illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peiyuan He , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is of great importance as a low-level computer vision task. The fast development of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based deep learning architectures realises an efficient and effective SISR to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-14 Jin Zhu , Guang Yang , Pietro Lio

Real-world image restoration deals with the recovery of images suffering from an unknown degradation. This task is typically addressed while being given only degraded images, without their corresponding ground-truth versions. In this hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sean Man , Guy Ohayon , Ron Raphaeli , Michael Elad

Image harmonization is an important preprocessing strategy to address domain shifts arising from data acquired using different machines and scanning protocols in medical imaging. However, benchmarking the effectiveness of harmonization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Abhijeet Parida , Zhifan Jiang , Roger J. Packer , Robert A. Avery , Syed M. Anwar , Marius G. Linguraru

Purpose: Many useful image quality metrics for evaluating linear image reconstruction techniques do not apply to or are difficult to interpret for non-linear image reconstruction. The vast majority of metrics employed for evaluating…

Deep networks are increasingly being applied to problems involving image synthesis, e.g., generating images from textual descriptions and reconstructing an input image from a compact representation. Supervised training of image-synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Jake Snell , Karl Ridgeway , Renjie Liao , Brett D. Roads , Michael C. Mozer , Richard S. Zemel

Developing reliable and generalizable deep learning systems for medical imaging faces significant obstacles due to spurious correlations, data imbalances, and limited text annotations in datasets. Addressing these challenges requires…

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Medical imaging provides many valuable clues involving anatomical structure and pathological characteristics. However, image degradation is a common issue in clinical practice, which can adversely impact the observation and diagnosis by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Heng Li , Ziqin Lin , Zhongxi Qiu , Zinan Li , Huazhu Fu , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

This paper presents PointSSIM, a novel low-dimensional image-to-image comparison metric that is resolution invariant. Drawing inspiration from the structural similarity index measure and mathematical morphology, PointSSIM enables robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Oscar Ovanger , Ragnar Hauge , Jacob Skauvold , Michael J. Pyrcz , Jo Eidsvik

Medical Image Foundation Models have proven to be powerful tools for mask prediction across various datasets. However, accurately assessing the uncertainty of their predictions remains a significant challenge. To address this, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xin Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Peng Huang , Pu Huang , Shu Hu , Hongtu Zhu

A successful approach to image quality assessment involves comparing the structural information between a distorted and its reference image. However, extracting structural information that is perceptually important to our visual system is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tanaya Guha , Ehsan Nezhadarya , Rabab K Ward

This paper investigates the problem of recovering missing samples using methods based on sparse representation adapted especially for image signals. Instead of $l_2$-norm or Mean Square Error (MSE), a new perceptual quality measure is used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Amirhossein Javaheri , Hadi Zayyani , Farokh Marvasti

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computer vision and medical imaging. However, real-world images are often degraded by structured noise with strong anisotropic correlations that existing methods struggle to remove. Most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Jianxu Wang , Ge Wang

Evaluating generative models for synthetic medical imaging is crucial yet challenging, especially given the high standards of fidelity, anatomical accuracy, and safety required for clinical applications. Standard evaluation of generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yash Deo , Yan Jia , Toni Lassila , William A. P. Smith , Tom Lawton , Siyuan Kang , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ibrahim Habli

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

In Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS), a camera assistant is normally required to control the position and zooming ratio of the laparoscope, following the surgeon's instructions. However, moving the laparoscope frequently may…

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