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Accurate tracking of an anatomical landmark over time has been of high interests for disease assessment such as minimally invasive surgery and tumor radiation therapy. Ultrasound imaging is a promising modality benefiting from low-cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhihua Liu , Bin Yang , Yan Shen , Xuejun Ni , Huiyu Zhou

This paper concerns the fully automatic direct in vivo measurement of active and passive dynamic skeletal muscle states using ultrasound imaging. Despite the long standing medical need (myopathies, neuropathies, pain, injury, ageing),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ryan J. Cunningham , Peter J. Harding , Ian D. Loram

Shape deformation is an important component in any geometry processing toolbox. The goal is to enable intuitive deformations of single or multiple shapes or to transfer example deformations to new shapes while preserving the plausibility of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Minhyuk Sung , Zhenyu Jiang , Panos Achlioptas , Niloy J. Mitra , Leonidas J. Guibas

High quality imaging usually requires bulky and expensive lenses to compensate geometric and chromatic aberrations. This poses high constraints on the optical hash or low cost applications. Although one can utilize algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Xiu Li , Jinli Suo , Weihang Zhang , Xin Yuan , Qionghai Dai

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is crucial in many medical image studies, as it offers unique, special properties including topology preservation and invertibility of the transformation. Recent deep learning-based deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tony C. W. Mok , Albert C. S. Chung

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

Medical image registration aims at identifying the spatial deformation between images of the same anatomical region and is fundamental to image-based diagnostics and therapy. To date, the majority of the deep learning-based registration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Anna Reithmeir , Julia A. Schnabel , Veronika A. Zimmer

In computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) focused on microscopy, denoising improves the quality of image analysis. In general, the accuracy of this process may depend both on the experience of the microscopist and on the equipment sensitivity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Fabio Hernán Gil Zuluaga , Francesco Bardozzo , Jorge Iván Ríos Patiño , Roberto Tagliaferri

Local and non-local attention-based methods have been well studied in various image restoration tasks while leading to promising performance. However, most of the existing methods solely focus on one type of attention mechanism (local or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chong Mou , Jian Zhang , Xiaopeng Fan , Hangfan Liu , Ronggang Wang

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Delineating infarcted tissue in ischemic stroke lesions is crucial to determine the extend of damage and optimal treatment for this life-threatening condition. However, this problem remains challenging due to high variability of ischemic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Modelling the physical properties of everyday objects is a fundamental prerequisite for autonomous robots. We present a novel generative adversarial network (Defo-Net), able to predict body deformations under external forces from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Zhihua Wang , Stefano Rosa , Linhai Xie , Bo Yang , Sen Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The availability of affordable and portable depth sensors has made scanning objects and people simpler than ever. However, dealing with occlusions and missing parts is still a significant challenge. The problem of reconstructing a (possibly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Or Litany , Alex Bronstein , Michael Bronstein , Ameesh Makadia

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

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful bioimaging tool which can uncover novel insights, thanks to its sensitivity to the intrinsic properties of materials. However, this enhanced contrast comes at the cost of system complexity, constrained by…

The application of 3D ViTs to medical image segmentation has seen remarkable strides, somewhat overshadowing the budding advancements in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models. Large kernel depthwise convolution has emerged as a…

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A rapidly increasing portion of Internet traffic is dominated by requests from mobile devices with limited- and metered-bandwidth constraints. To satisfy these requests, it has become standard practice for websites to transmit small and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Shumeet Baluja , Dave Marwood , Nick Johnston , Michele Covell

We present a novel method to generate accurate and realistic clothing deformation from real data capture. Previous methods for realistic cloth modeling mainly rely on intensive computation of physics-based simulation (with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Zorah Laehner , Daniel Cremers , Tony Tung

Reconstructing 2D freehand Ultrasound (US) frames into 3D space without using a tracker has recently seen advances with deep learning. Predicting good frame-to-frame rigid transformations is often accepted as the learning objective,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Qi Li , Ziyi Shen , Qianye Yang , Dean C. Barratt , Matthew J. Clarkson , Tom Vercauteren , Yipeng Hu

In the previous blind deconvolution methods, de-blurred images can be obtained by using the edge or pixel information. However, the existing edge-based methods did not take advantage of edge information in ommi-directions, but only used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Trung Dung Do , Xuenan Cui , Thi Hai Binh Nguyen , Hakil Kim , Van Huan Nguyen