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Bayesian optimization (BO) methods are useful for optimizing functions that are expensive to evaluate, lack an analytical expression and whose evaluations can be contaminated by noise. These methods rely on a probabilistic model of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Efficient design of genomic perturbation experiments is crucial for accelerating drug discovery and therapeutic target identification, yet exhaustive perturbation of the human genome remains infeasible due to the vast search space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Yanke Li , Tianyu Cui , Tommaso Mansi , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao

Bayesian optimization (BO) based on Gaussian process models is a powerful paradigm to optimize black-box functions that are expensive to evaluate. While several BO algorithms provably converge to the global optimum of the unknown function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-03 Felix Berkenkamp , Angela P. Schoellig , Andreas Krause

Cardiac ultrasound diagnosis is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, but acquiring standard views remains highly operator-dependent. Existing medical segmentation models often yield anatomically inconsistent results in images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhiyan Cao , Zhengxi Wu , Yiwei Wang , Pei-Hsuan Lin , Li Zhang , Zhen Xie , Huan Zhao , Han Ding

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is typically used to optimize an unknown function $f$ that is noisy and costly to evaluate, by exploiting an acquisition function that must be maximized at each optimization step. Even if provably asymptotically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Anthony Bardou , Patrick Thiran , Thomas Begin

High-dimensional Bayesian optimization (BO) tasks such as molecular design often require 10,000 function evaluations before obtaining meaningful results. While methods like sparse variational Gaussian processes (SVGPs) reduce computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Natalie Maus , Kyurae Kim , Geoff Pleiss , David Eriksson , John P. Cunningham , Jacob R. Gardner

The first choice in diagnostic imaging for patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease is 2D ultrasound (US). However, for a proper imaging process, a skilled and experienced sonographer is required. Additionally, it is a highly…

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a class of sample-efficient global optimization methods, where a probabilistic model conditioned on previous observations is used to determine future evaluations via the optimization of an acquisition function.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Eric Hans Lee , David Eriksson , Bolong Cheng , Michael McCourt , David Bindel

AI-assisted ultrasound video diagnosis presents new opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of medical imaging analysis. However, existing research remains limited in terms of dataset diversity, diagnostic performance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yuezhe Yang , Yiyue Guo , Wenjie Cai , Qingqing Ruan , Siying Wang , Xingbo Dong , Zhe Jin , Yong Dai

Ultrasound imaging is generally employed for real-time investigation of internal anatomy of the human body for disease identification. Delineation of the anatomical boundary of organs and pathological lesions is quite challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sumanth Nandamuri , Debarghya China , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Robotic-assisted tracheal intubation requires the robot to distinguish anatomical features like an experienced physician using deep-learning techniques. However, real datasets of oropharyngeal organs are limited due to patient privacy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-29 Guankun Wang , Tian-Ao Ren , Jiewen Lai , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren

Deep learning methods can be found in many medical imaging applications. Recently, those methods were applied directly to the RF ultrasound multi-channel data to enhance the quality of the reconstructed images. In this paper, we apply a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Nissim Peretz , Arie Feuer

Ultrasound imaging is a commonly used technology for visualising patient anatomy in real-time during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. High operator dependency and low reproducibility make ultrasound imaging and interpretation…

Ultrasound (US) images usually contain identifying information outside the ultrasound fan area and manual annotations placed by the sonographers during exams. For those images to be exploitable in a Deep Learning framework, one needs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Hind Dadoun , Hervé Delingette , Anne-Laure Rousseau , Eric de Kerviler , Nicholas Ayache

In nuclear medicine, radioiodine therapy is prescribed to treat diseases like hyperthyroidism. The calculation of the prescribed dose depends, amongst other factors, on the thyroid volume. This is currently estimated using conventional 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 John Zielke , Christine Eilers , Benjamin Busam , Wolfgang Weber , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler

Automatic report generation has arisen as a significant research area in computer-aided diagnosis, aiming to alleviate the burden on clinicians by generating reports automatically based on medical images. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jun Li , Tongkun Su , Baoliang Zhao , Faqin Lv , Qiong Wang , Nassir Navab , Ying Hu , Zhongliang Jiang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for finding the global optimum of expensive black-box functions. However, it is well known that applying BO to high-dimensional optimization problems is challenging. To address this issue, a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-06 Lam Ngo , Huong Ha , Jeffrey Chan , Vu Nguyen , Hongyu Zhang

Background: Ultrasound is one of the preferred choices for early screening of dense breast cancer. Clinically, doctors have to manually write the screening report which is time-consuming and laborious, and it is easy to miss and miswrite.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Shuang Ge , Qiongyu Ye , Wenquan Xie , Desheng Sun , Huabin Zhang , Xiaobo Zhou , Kehong Yuan

Maternal health remains a pervasive challenge in developing and underdeveloped countries. Inadequate access to basic antenatal Ultrasound (US) examinations, limited resources such as primary health services and infrastructure, and lack of…

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method to optimize costly black-box functions. While traditional BO optimizes each new target task from scratch, meta-learning has emerged as a way to leverage knowledge from related tasks to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jiarong Pan , Stefan Falkner , Felix Berkenkamp , Joaquin Vanschoren