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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models enable high-fidelity image synthesis and editing. In biomedicine, these models facilitate counterfactual image editing, producing pairs of images where one is edited to simulate hypothetical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Malek Ben Alaya , Daniel M. Lang , Benedikt Wiestler , Julia A. Schnabel , Cosmin I. Bercea

We propose a novel and unified method, measurement-conditioned denoising diffusion probabilistic model (MC-DDPM), for under-sampled medical image reconstruction based on DDPM. Different from previous works, MC-DDPM is defined in measurement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Yutong Xie , Quanzheng Li

Image segmentation is crucial in many computational pathology pipelines, including accurate disease diagnosis, subtyping, outcome, and survivability prediction. The common approach for training a segmentation model relies on a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sachin Kumar Danisetty , Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) employ a sequence of white Gaussian noise samples to generate an image. In analogy with GANs, those noise maps could be considered as the latent code associated with the generated image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas , Vladimir Kulikov , Tomer Michaeli

3D brain MRI studies often examine subtle morphometric differences between cohorts that are hard to detect visually. Given the high cost of MRI acquisition, these studies could greatly benefit from image syntheses, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Binxu Li , Wei Peng , Mingjie Li , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical imaging and radiotherapy is hindered by the limited availability of large imaging data repositories. With recent research and improvements in denoising diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Rowan Bradbury , Katherine A. Vallis , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Existing segmentation models trained on a single medical imaging dataset often lack robustness when encountering unseen organs or tumors. Developing a robust model capable of identifying rare or novel tumor categories not present during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Rong Wu , Ziqi Chen , Liming Zhong , Heng Li , Hai Shu

The diffusion model has recently emerged as a potent approach in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable performances in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Capable of producing high-quality synthetic images, diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Abdullah , Tao Huang , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Free-form image inpainting is the task of reconstructing parts of an image specified by an arbitrary binary mask. In this task, it is typically desired to generalize model capabilities to unseen mask types, rather than learning certain mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Moein Heidari , Alireza Morsali , Tohid Abedini , Samin Heydarian

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

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) can be used to reduce radiation dose greatly but is suffers from severe image artifacts. Recently, the deep learning based method for sparse-view CT reconstruction has attracted a major attention.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Wenjun Xia , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Monitoring diseases that affect the brain's structural integrity requires automated analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) images, e.g., for the evaluation of volumetric changes. However, many of the evaluation tools are optimized for…

Anomaly detection is a fundamental task in machine learning and data mining, with significant applications in cybersecurity, industrial fault diagnosis, and clinical disease monitoring. Traditional methods, such as statistical modeling and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Chen

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Medical image segmentation is a challenging task with inherent ambiguity and high uncertainty, attributed to factors such as unclear tumor boundaries and multiple plausible annotations. The accuracy and diversity of segmentation masks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Tao Chen , Chenhui Wang , Hongming Shan

Unsupervised anomaly detection in brain images is crucial for identifying injuries and pathologies without access to labels. However, the accurate localization of anomalies in medical images remains challenging due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Experts use retinal images and vessel trees to detect and diagnose various eye, blood circulation, and brain-related diseases. However, manual segmentation of retinal images is a time-consuming process that requires high expertise and is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

This report presents the comprehensive implementation, evaluation, and optimization of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIMs), which are state-of-the-art generative models. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jaineet Shah , Michael Gromis , Rickston Pinto

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently achieved remarkable results in conditional and unconditional image generation. The pre-trained models can be adapted without further training to different downstream tasks, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Asya Grechka , Guillaume Couairon , Matthieu Cord

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