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Objective: Depth estimation is crucial for endoscopic navigation and manipulation, but obtaining ground-truth depth maps in real clinical scenarios, such as the colon, is challenging. This study aims to develop a robust framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sijia Du , Chengfeng Zhou , Suncheng Xiang , Jianwei Xu , Dahong Qian

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

Fine-tuning a network which has been trained on a large dataset is an alternative to full training in order to overcome the problem of scarce and expensive data in medical applications. While the shallow layers of the network are usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Mina Amiri , Rupert Brooks , Hassan Rivaz

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised video denoising deep learning approach that can help to mitigate data scarcity issues and shows robustness against different noise patterns, enhancing its broad applicability. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mary Damilola Aiyetigbo , Dineshchandar Ravichandran , Reda Chalhoub , Peter Kalivas , Nianyi Li

One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Hu Cao , Yueyue Wang , Joy Chen , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Manning Wang

Current self-supervised denoising methods for paired noisy images typically involve mapping one noisy image through the network to the other noisy image. However, after measuring the spectral bias of such methods using our proposed Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wang Zhang , Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Tao Jiang , Zikang Chen , Haoqian Wang

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

On one hand, the transmitted ultrasound beam gets attenuated as propagates through the tissue. On the other hand, the received Radio-Frequency (RF) data contains an additive Gaussian noise which is brought about by the acquisition card and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Sobhan Goudarzi , Hassan Rivaz

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Sutanu Bera , Avisek Lahiri , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Deep learning (DL) has arguably emerged as the method of choice for the detection and segmentation of biological structures in microscopy images. However, DL typically needs copious amounts of annotated training data that is for biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Mangal Prakash , Tim-Oliver Buchholz , Manan Lalit , Pavel Tomancak , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

We propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for image classification based on subband decomposition of the image using wavelets. The proposed architecture decomposes the input image spectra into multiple critically sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pavel Sinha , Ioannis Psaromiligkos , Zeljko Zilic

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

We propose a local modelling approach using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine-grained image classification. Recently, deep CNNs trained from large datasets have considerably improved the performance of object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Ultrasound imaging is widely used for real-time, noninvasive diagnosis, but speckle and related artifacts reduce image quality and can hinder interpretation. We present a diffusion-based ultrasound despeckling method built on the Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shuoqi Chen , Yujia Wu , Geoffrey P. Luke

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising have recently attracted increasing research interest. However, plain networks cannot recover fine details for a complex task, such as real noisy images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Bo Du , Chia-Wen Lin , David Zhang

Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Rui Zhao , Kin-Man Lam , Daniel P. K. Lun

Microstructure imaging is crucial in materials science, but experimental images often introduce noise that obscures critical structural details. This study presents a novel deep learning approach for robust microstructure image denoising,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-03 Owais Ahmad , Albert Linda , Saumya Ranjan Jha , Somnath Bhowmick

Medical image acquisition is often intervented by unwanted noise that corrupts the information content. This paper introduces an unsupervised medical image denoising technique that learns noise characteristics from the available images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Swati Rai , Jignesh S. Bhatt , S. K. Patra

In the past few decades, to reduce the risk of X-ray in computed tomography (CT), low-dose CT image denoising has attracted extensive attention from researchers, which has become an important research issue in the field of medical images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Yidong Li , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Congyan Lang