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Ultrasonography is an essential tool in mid-pregnancy for assessing fetal development, appreciated for its non-invasive and real-time imaging capabilities. Yet, the interpretation of ultrasound images is often complicated by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Hanna Mykula , Lisa Gasser , Silvia Lobmaier , Julia A. Schnabel , Veronika Zimmer , Cosmin I. Bercea

Medical imaging plays a critical role in modern healthcare, enabling clinicians to accurately diagnose diseases and develop effective treatment plans. However, noise, often introduced by imaging devices, can degrade image quality, leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Jitindra Fartiyal , Pedro Freire , Yasmeen Whayeb , James S. Wolffsohn , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Sergei G. Sokolov

Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

Mammography is using low-energy X-rays to screen the human breast and is utilized by radiologists to detect breast cancer. Typically radiologists require a mammogram with impeccable image quality for an accurate diagnosis. In this study, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Dominik Eckert , Sulaiman Vesal , Ludwig Ritschl , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Ultra-high resolution images are desirable in photon counting CT (PCCT), but resolution is physically limited by interactions such as charge sharing. Deep learning is a possible method for super-resolution (SR), but sourcing paired training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Christopher Wiedeman , Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Bruno De Man , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

In this paper, conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are proposed to enhance the data transmission and reconstruction over wireless channels. The underlying mechanism of DDPM is to decompose the data generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

We propose a novel pipeline for the generation of synthetic ultrasound images via Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) guided by cardiac semantic label maps. We show that these synthetic images can serve as a viable substitute…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 David Stojanovski , Uxio Hermida , Pablo Lamata , Arian Beqiri , Alberto Gomez

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) can generate high-quality samples such as image and audio samples. However, DDPMs require hundreds to thousands of iterations to produce final samples. Several prior works have successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Luping Liu , Yi Ren , Zhijie Lin , Zhou Zhao

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) have been widely adopted in image-to-image translation to generate high-quality images. Prior attempts at applying the DPM to image super-resolution (SR) have shown that iteratively refining a pure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Blind and universal image denoising consists of using a unique model that denoises images with any level of noise. It is especially practical as noise levels do not need to be known when the model is developed or at test time. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Recent advances in imaging and high-performance computing have made it possible to image the entire human brain at the cellular level. This is the basis to study the multi-scale architecture of the brain regarding its subdivision into brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jan-Oliver Kropp , Christian Schiffer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Light microscopy is a widespread and inexpensive imaging technique facilitating biomedical discovery and diagnostics. However, light diffraction barrier and imperfections in optics limit the level of detail of the acquired images. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Rui Li , Gabriel della Maggiora , Vardan Andriasyan , Anthony Petkidis , Artsemi Yushkevich , Mikhail Kudryashev , Artur Yakimovich

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) have recently gained significant attention. DDPMs compose a Markovian process that begins in the data domain and gradually adds noise until reaching pure white noise. DDPMs generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

Ultrasound (US) interpretation is hampered by multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur from the point-spread function (PSF), and scanner- and operator-dependent artifacts. Supervised enhancement methods assume access to clean targets or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Shujaat Khan , Syed Muhammad Atif , Jaeyoung Huh , Syed Saad Azhar

Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Woong-Kee Loh

Data limitation is a significant challenge in applying deep learning to medical images. Recently, the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) has shown the potential to generate high-quality images by converting Gaussian random noise into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Sepehr Salem Ghahfarokhi , Tyrell To , Julie Jorns , Tina Yen , Bing Yu , Dong Hye Ye

Out-of-distribution detection is crucial to the safe deployment of machine learning systems. Currently, unsupervised out-of-distribution detection is dominated by generative-based approaches that make use of estimates of the likelihood or…

Contrast and quality of ultrasound images are adversely affected by the excessive presence of speckle. However, being an inherent imaging property, speckle helps in tissue characterization and tracking. Thus, despeckling of the ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Deepak Mishra , Santanu Chaudhury , Mukul Sarkar , Arvinder Singh Soin

While deep learning offers powerful capabilities for scientific research, its application is often hindered by a lack of quantitative reliability. To address this, we introduce a probabilistic denoising framework that simultaneously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-11 Younsik Kim , Changyoung Kim