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Mammographic screening is an effective method for detecting breast cancer, facilitating early diagnosis. However, the current need to manually inspect images places a heavy burden on healthcare systems, spurring a desire for automated…

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Ultrasound imaging is caught between the quest for the highest image quality, and the necessity for clinical usability. Our contribution is two-fold: First, we propose a novel fully convolutional neural network for ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Walter Simson , Rüdiger Göbl , Magdalini Paschali , Markus Krönke , Klemens Scheidhauer , Wolfgang Weber , Nassir Navab

Photorealistic style transfer aims to apply stylization while preserving the realism and structure of input content. However, existing methods often encounter challenges such as color tone distortions, dependency on pair-wise pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Rong Liu , Enyu Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Andrew Feng , Scott John Easley

Brain imaging plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of various neurological disorders, providing valuable insights into the structure and function of the brain. Techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Fatima Haimour , Rizik Al-Sayyed , Waleed Mahafza , Omar S. Al-Kadi

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging has a trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. By considering the in-vivo characteristics of human organs, it is necessary to provide clinicians with appropriate hardware specifications for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Hah Min Lew , Jae Seong Kim , Moon Hwan Lee , Jaegeun Park , Sangyeon Youn , Hee Man Kim , Jihun Kim , Jae Youn Hwang

Computer-aided diagnosis with deep learning techniques has been shown to be helpful for the diagnosis of the mammography in many clinical studies. However, the image styles of different vendors are very distinctive, and there may exist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Sheng Wang , Jiayu Huo , Xi Ouyang , Jifei Che , Xuhua Ren , Zhong Xue , Qian Wang , Jie-Zhi Cheng

Automatic segmentation of anatomical landmarks in endoscopic images can provide assistance to doctors and surgeons for diagnosis, treatments or medical training. However, obtaining the annotations required to train commonly used supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Clara Tomasini , Luis Riazuelo , Ana C. Murillo

Anatomical segmentation of organs in ultrasound images is essential to many clinical applications, particularly for diagnosis and monitoring. Existing deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled data for training in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Nassir Navab

Ultrasound (US) imaging is increasingly used in spinal procedures due to its real-time, radiation-free capabilities; however, its effectiveness is hindered by shadowing artifacts that obscure deeper tissue structures. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Miruna-Alexandra Gafencu , Reem Shaban , Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for anatomical structure inspection in clinical diagnosis. The training of new sonographers and deep learning based algorithms for US image analysis usually requires a large amount of data. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Jiamin Liang , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Haoming Li , Shuangchi He , Xindi Hu , Zejian Chen , Wufeng Xue , Jun Cheng , Dong Ni

Ultrasound (US) has the unique potential to offer access to medical imaging to anyone, everywhere. Devices have become ultra-portable and cost-effective, akin to the stethoscope. Nevertheless US image quality and diagnostic efficacy are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Ruud JG van Sloun

The appearance of ultrasound images varies across acquisition devices, causing domain shifts that degrade the performance of fixed black-box downstream inference models when reused. To mitigate this issue, it is practical to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Nhat-Tuong Do-Tran , Ngoc-Hoang-Lam Le , Ching-Chun Huang

The success of training deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) heavily depends on a significant amount of labelled data. Recent research has found that neural style transfer algorithms can apply the artistic style of one image to another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xu Zheng , Tejo Chalasani , Koustav Ghosal , Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

Sim2real transfer has received increasing attention lately due to the success of learning robotic tasks in simulation end-to-end. While there has been a lot of progress in transferring vision-based navigation policies, the existing sim2real…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Changan Chen , Jordi Ramos , Anshul Tomar , Kristen Grauman

Ultrasound (US) imaging is better suited for intraoperative settings because it is real-time and more portable than other imaging techniques, such as mammography. However, US images are characterized by lower spatial resolution noise-like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Ashutosh Sharma , Anmol Saraf , Amruta Mahendra Parulekar , Purvi Haria , Amit Sethi

Robot perception systems need to perform reliable image segmentation in real-time on noisy, raw perception data. State-of-the-art segmentation approaches use large CNN models and carefully constructed datasets; however, these models focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jonathan C Balloch , Varun Agrawal , Irfan Essa , Sonia Chernova

Ultrafast ultrasound (US) revolutionized biomedical imaging with its capability of acquiring full-view frames at over 1 kHz, unlocking breakthrough modalities such as shear-wave elastography and functional US neuroimaging. Yet, it suffers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Dimitris Perdios , Manuel Vonlanthen , Florian Martinez , Marcel Arditi , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Universal Neural Style Transfer (NST) methods are capable of performing style transfer of arbitrary styles in a style-agnostic manner via feature transforms in (almost) real-time. Even though their unimodal parametric style modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Paraskevas Pegios , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

Purpose: This study examines the core traits of image-to-image translation (I2I) networks, focusing on their effectiveness and adaptability in everyday clinical settings. Methods: We have analyzed data from 794 patients diagnosed with…

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