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Supervised deep learning for semantic segmentation has achieved excellent results in accurately identifying anatomical and pathological structures in medical images. However, it often requires large annotated training datasets, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Luca Ciampi , Gabriele Lagani , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Long-tailed class distributions are pervasive in multi-class medical datasets and pose significant challenges for deep learning models which typically underperform on tail classes with limited samples. This limitation is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jiaxiang Jiang , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo

Medical image segmentation suffers from data scarcity, particularly in polyp detection where annotation requires specialized expertise. We present SynDiff, a framework combining text-guided synthetic data generation with efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Muhammad Aqeel , Maham Nazir , Zanxi Ruan , Francesco Setti

In medical image segmentation tasks, diffusion models have shown significant potential. However, mainstream diffusion models suffer from drawbacks such as multiple sampling times and slow prediction results. Recently, consistency models, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Kejia Zhang , Lan Zhang , Haiwei Pan , Baolong Yu

Diffusion models have demonstrated excellent performance in image generation. Although various few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) models with different network structures have been proposed, performance improvement has reached a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Weimin Tan , Siyuan Chen , Bo Yan

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

The generation of realistic medical images from text descriptions has significant potential to address data scarcity challenges in healthcare AI while preserving patient privacy. This paper presents a comprehensive study of text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mikhail Chaichuk , Sushant Gautam , Steven Hicks , Elena Tutubalina

Training robust learning algorithms across different medical imaging modalities is challenging due to the large domain gap. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) mitigates this problem by using annotated images from the source domain and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Chen Li , Meilong Xu , Xiaoling Hu , Weimin Lyu , Chao Chen

Recent progress in generative models has made it easier for a wide audience to edit and create image content, raising concerns about the proliferation of deepfakes, especially in healthcare. Despite the availability of numerous techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Fred Grabovski , Lior Yasur , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Solving medical imaging data scarcity through semantic image generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, existing generative models mainly focus on synthesizing whole-organ or large-tissue structures, showing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Jiahao Xia , Yutao Hu , Yaolei Qi , Zhenliang Li , Wenqi Shao , Junjun He , Ying Fu , Longjiang Zhang , Guanyu Yang

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has recently gained popularity in the field of computer vision, thanks to its image generation applications, such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models, and Stable Diffusion, which have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin , Yanwu Xu

Medical image segmentation is a challenging task, made more difficult by many datasets' limited size and annotations. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) have recently shown promise in modelling the distribution of natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Margherita Rosnati , Melanie Roschewitz , Ben Glocker

Diffusion-based data augmentation (DiffDA) has emerged as a promising approach to improving classification performance under data scarcity. However, existing works vary significantly in task configurations, model choices, and experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zekun Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Dong Xu

Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

Accurate lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT scans is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, but limited datasets often hinder the performance of automated segmentation models. In this paper, we explore the potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Lap Yan Lennon Chan , Chenxin Li , Yixuan Yuan

We introduce Mediffusion -- a new method for semi-supervised learning with explainable classification based on a joint diffusion model. The medical imaging domain faces unique challenges due to scarce data labelling -- insufficient for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Joanna Kaleta , Paweł Skierś , Jan Dubiński , Przemysław Korzeniowski , Kamil Deja

Recent progress in generative AI, especially diffusion models, has demonstrated significant utility in text-to-image synthesis. Particularly in healthcare, these models offer immense potential in generating synthetic datasets and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yan Luo , Muhammad Osama Khan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Titus Fidelis Wuermeling , Min Shi , Yu Tian , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Deep learning-based image generation has seen significant advancements with diffusion models, notably improving the quality of generated images. Despite these developments, generating images with unseen characteristics beneficial for…

While deep learning holds great promise for disease diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, its progress is often constrained by highly imbalanced and biased training datasets. To address this issue, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Grzegorz Skorupko , Richard Osuala , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Kaisar Kushibar , Vien Ngoc Dang , Nay Aung , Steffen E Petersen , Karim Lekadir , Polyxeni Gkontra