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Ultrasound b-mode imaging is a qualitative approach and diagnostic quality strongly depends on operators' training and experience. Quantitative approaches can provide information about tissue properties; therefore, can be used for…

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Ultrasound (US) imaging is indispensable in clinical practice. To diagnose certain diseases, sonographers must observe corresponding dynamic anatomic structures to gather comprehensive information. However, the limited availability of…

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Style transfer aims to transfer arbitrary visual styles to content images. We explore algorithms adapted from two papers that try to solve the problem of style transfer while generalizing on unseen styles or compromised visual quality.…

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Real-noise denoising is a challenging task because the statistics of real-noise do not follow the normal distribution, and they are also spatially and temporally changing. In order to cope with various and complex real-noise, we propose a…

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In medical imaging, most of the image registration methods implicitly assume a one-to-one correspondence between the source and target images (i.e., diffeomorphism). However, this is not necessarily the case when dealing with pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Matthis Maillard , Anton François , Joan Glaunès , Isabelle Bloch , Pietro Gori

Self-supervised pretraining attempts to enhance model performance by obtaining effective features from unlabeled data, and has demonstrated its effectiveness in the field of histopathology images. Despite its success, few works concentrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zhiyun Song , Penghui Du , Junpeng Yan , Kailu Li , Jianzhong Shou , Maode Lai , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Ultrasound (US) imaging is clinically invaluable due to its noninvasive and safe nature. However, interpreting US images is challenging, requires significant expertise, and time, and is often prone to errors. Deep learning offers assistive…

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Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Ibrahim Shehi Shehu , Xianping Fu , Huibing Wang

The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

While deep learning has had significant successes in computer vision thanks to the abundance of visual data, collecting sufficiently large real-world datasets for robot learning can be costly. To increase the practicality of these…

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Ultrasound (US) image stitching can expand the field-of-view (FOV) by combining multiple US images from varied probe positions. However, registering US images with only partially overlapping anatomical contents is a challenging task. In…

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In portable, 3-D, or ultra-fast ultrasound (US) imaging systems, there is an increasing demand to reconstruct high quality images from limited number of data. However, the existing solutions require either hardware changes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Yeo Hun Yoon , Jong Chul Ye

In recent years, laser ultrasonic visualization testing (LUVT) has attracted much attention because of its ability to efficiently perform non-contact ultrasonic non-destructive testing.Despite many success reports of deep learning based…

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Simulation-to-Real (Sim2Real) transfer learning, the machine learning technique that efficiently solves a real-world task by leveraging knowledge from computational data, has received increasing attention in materials science as a promising…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yuta Yahagi , Kiichi Obuchi , Fumihiko Kosaka , Kota Matsui

A Transfer Function approach was recently demonstrated to mitigate data mismatches at the acquisition level for a single ultrasound scanner in deep learning (DL) based quantitative ultrasound (QUS). As a natural progression, we further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Ufuk Soylu , Michael L. Oelze

The Swapping Autoencoder achieved state-of-the-art performance in deep image manipulation and image-to-image translation. We improve this work by introducing a simple yet effective auxiliary module based on gradient reversal layers. The…

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In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

We introduce a novel training strategy for stereo matching and optical flow estimation that utilizes image-to-image translation between synthetic and real image domains. Our approach enables the training of models that excel in real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhexiao Xiong , Feng Qiao , Yu Zhang , Nathan Jacobs

This paper proposes a face anti-spoofing user-centered model (FAS-UCM). The major difficulty, in this case, is obtaining fraudulent images from all users to train the models. To overcome this problem, the proposed method is divided in three…

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Computer-assisted surgical (CAS) systems enhance surgical execution and outcomes by providing advanced support to surgeons. These systems often rely on deep learning models trained on complex, challenging-to-annotate data. While synthetic…

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