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Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT) are the primary diagnostic imaging modalities quite frequently used for surgical planning and analysis. A general problem with medical imaging is that the acquisition process is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Vismay Agrawal , Avinash Kori , Vikas Kumar Anand , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images can be used for dose calculation in adaptive radiation therapy (ART). The main challenges are the large artefacts and inaccurate Hounsfield unit (HU) values. Currently, deformed planning CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xiao Liang , Liyuan Chen , Dan Nguyen , Zhiguo Zhou , Xuejun Gu , Ming Yang , Jing Wang , Steve Jiang

In this work, we propose a novel Cycle In Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (C$^2$GAN) for the task of keypoint-guided image generation. The proposed C$^2$GAN is a cross-modal framework exploring a joint exploitation of the keypoint and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Gaowen Liu , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Deep learning has significant potential for medical imaging. However, since the incident rate of each disease varies widely, the frequency of classes in a medical image dataset is imbalanced, leading to poor accuracy for such infrequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Tatsuki Koga , Naoki Nonaka , Jun Sakuma , Jun Seita

Generating photo-realistic images from a text description is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous works have shown promising performance to generate synthetic images conditional on text by Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Tao Hu , Chengjiang Long , Chunxia Xiao

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans acquired from different scanners or institutions often suffer from domain shifts owing to variations in hardware, protocols, and acquisition parameters. This discrepancy degrades the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohd Usama , Belal Ahmad , Faleh Menawer R Althiyabi

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors is critical for medical diagnosis. However, current supervised learning methods require extensively annotated images and the state-of-the-art generative models used in unsupervised methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Wenxin Wang , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Guanxun Cheng , Chentao Cao , Xi Xu , Ziwei Liu , Haifeng Wang , Yulong Qi , Dong Liang , Yanjie Zhu

Many CT slice images are stored with large slice intervals to reduce storage size in clinical practice. This leads to low resolution perpendicular to the slice images (i.e., z-axis), which is insufficient for 3D visualization or image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Akira Kudo , Yoshiro Kitamura , Yuanzhong Li , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra

Synthesized medical images have several important applications, e.g., as an intermedium in cross-modality image registration and as supplementary training samples to boost the generalization capability of a classifier. Especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Zizhao Zhang , Lin Yang , Yefeng Zheng

During their formative years, radiology trainees are required to interpret hundreds of mammograms per month, with the objective of becoming apt at discerning the subtle patterns differentiating benign from malignant lesions. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Cyril Zakka , Ghida Saheb , Elie Najem , Ghina Berjawi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have the capability of synthesizing images, which have been successfully applied to medical image synthesis tasks. However, most of existing methods merely consider the global contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Tianyang Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yitian Zhao , Jun Cheng , Mengjie Guo , Zaiwang Gu , Bing Yang , Yuting Xiao , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Medical image synthesis generates additional imaging modalities that are costly, invasive or harmful to acquire, which helps to facilitate the clinical workflow. When training pairs are substantially misaligned (e.g., lung MRI-CT pairs with…

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The state-of-the-art approaches in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to learn a mapping function from one image domain to another with unpaired image data. However, these methods often produce artifacts and can only be able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is a diagnostic tool used in modern medicine; however, its output can be affected by motion artefacts and may be limited by equipment. This research focuses on MRI image quality enhancement using two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Muneeba Rashid , Hina Shakir , Humaira Mehwish , Asarim Amir , Reema Qaiser Khan

The biggest challenge faced by a Machine Learning Engineer is the lack of data they have, especially for 2-dimensional images. The image is processed to be trained into a Machine Learning model so that it can recognize patterns in the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Anugrah Akbar Praramadhan , Guntur Eka Saputra

CT is commonly used in orthopedic procedures. MRI is used along with CT to identify muscle structures and diagnose osteonecrosis due to its superior soft tissue contrast. However, MRI has poor contrast for bone structures. Clearly, it would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yuta Hiasa , Yoshito Otake , Masaki Takao , Takumi Matsuoka , Kazuma Takashima , Jerry L. Prince , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Compressed Sensing MRI (CS-MRI) has provided theoretical foundations upon which the time-consuming MRI acquisition process can be accelerated. However, it primarily relies on iterative numerical solvers which still hinders their adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Tran Minh Quan , Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Won-Ki Jeong

We present an image translation approach to generate augmented data for mitigating data imbalances in a dataset of histopathology images of colorectal polyps, adenomatous tumors that can lead to colorectal cancer if left untreated. By…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Jerry Wei , Arief Suriawinata , Louis Vaickus , Bing Ren , Xiaoying Liu , Jason Wei , Saeed Hassanpour

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated a new direction to tackle the image-to-image transformation problem. Different GANs use generator and discriminator networks with different losses in the objective function. Still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

Creating large scale high-quality annotations is a known challenge in medical imaging. In this work, based on the CycleGAN algorithm, we propose leveraging annotations from one modality to be useful in other modalities. More specifically,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Yucheng Liu , Naji Khosravan , Yulin Liu , Joseph Stember , Jonathan Shoag , Christopher E. Barbieri , Ulas Bagci , Sachin Jambawalikar