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Recently, interest in MR-only treatment planning using synthetic CTs (synCTs) has grown rapidly in radiation therapy. However, developing class solutions for medical images that contain atypical anatomy remains a major limitation. In this…

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Model-based treatment planning for transcranial ultrasound therapy typically involves mapping the acoustic properties of the skull from an x-ray computed tomography (CT) image of the head. Here, three methods for generating pseudo-CT images…

Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…

Accurate multi-organ segmentation in abdominal CT scans is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have long been the standard approach in medical image segmentation,…

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Currently, a central challenge and bottleneck in the deployment and validation of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) models within the field of medical imaging is data scarcity. For lung cancer, one of the most prevalent types worldwide,…

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Image translation based on a generative adversarial network (GAN-IT) is a promising method for the precise localization of abnormal regions in chest X-ray images (AL-CXR) even without the pixel-level annotation. However, heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Kyungsu Kim , Seong Je Oh , Chae Yeon Lim , Ju Hwan Lee , Tae Uk Kim , Myung Jin Chung

To accurately analyze changes of anatomical structures in longitudinal imaging studies, consistent segmentation across multiple time-points is required. Existing solutions often involve independent registration and segmentation components.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Wiro Niessen , Stefan Klein , Marius de Groot , Arfan Ikram , Meike Vernooij , Esther Bron

Registration of brain MRI images requires to solve a deformation field, which is extremely difficult in aligning intricate brain tissues, e.g., subcortical nuclei, etc. Existing efforts resort to decomposing the target deformation field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Jinxin Lv , Zhiwei Wang , Hongkuan Shi , Haobo Zhang , Sheng Wang , Yilang Wang , Qiang Li

In recent years, machine learning (ML) based reconstruction has been widely investigated and employed in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. ML-based reconstructions can deliver clinically acceptable image quality under substantially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Chi Zhang , Michael Loecher , Cagan Alkan , Mahmut Yurt , Shreyas S. Vasanawala , Daniel B. Ennis

Deep learning techniques, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have gained traction for synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation from Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and PET. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Satoshi Kondo , Satoshi Kasai , Kousuke Hirasawa

Motivation: How do we integratively analyze large-scale multi-platform genomic data that are high dimensional and sparse? Furthermore, how can we incorporate prior knowledge, such as the association between genes, in the analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Dongjin Choi , Lee Sael

We present a patch-based 3D nnUNet adaptation for MR to CT and CBCT to CT image translation using the multicenter SynthRAD2025 dataset, covering head and neck (HN), thorax (TH), and abdomen (AB) regions. Our approach leverages two main…

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Image segmentation, real-value prediction, and cross-modal translation are critical challenges in medical imaging. In this study, we propose a versatile multi-task neural network framework, based on an enhanced Transformer U-Net…

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Computed tomography (CT) plays an important role in lung malignancy diagnostics and therapy assessment and facilitating precision medicine delivery. However, the use of personalized imaging protocols poses a challenge in large-scale…

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In clinical practice, well-aligned multi-modal images, such as Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Computed Tomography (CT), together can provide complementary information for image-guided therapies. Multi-modal image registration is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zekang Chen , Jia Wei , Rui Li

Computed Tomography (CT) based precise prostate segmentation for treatment planning is challenging due to (1) the unclear boundary of the prostate derived from CT's poor soft tissue contrast and (2) the limitation of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Chengyin Li , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher-Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Indrin J. Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

Currently, cortical surface registration techniques based on classical methods have been well developed. However, a key issue with classical methods is that for each pair of images to be registered, it is necessary to search for the optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruoyu Zhang , Lihui Wang , Kun Tang , Jingwen Xu , Hongjiang Wei

Deformable registration continues to be one of the key challenges in medical image analysis. While iconic registration methods have started to benefit from the recent advances in medical deep learning, the same does not yet apply for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lasse Hansen , Doris Dittmer , Mattias P. Heinrich

Personalized computed tomography (CT) dosimetry has great potential in assessing patient-specific radiation exposure, supporting risk assessment, and optimizing clinical protocols. The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Marie-Luise Kuhlmann , Jörg Martin , Stefan Pojtinger

X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) has been widely leveraged to characterise pore-scale geometry in subsurface porous rock. Recent developments in super resolution (SR) methods using deep learning allow the digital enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Yufu Niu , Samuel J. Jackson , Naif Alqahtani , Peyman Mostaghimi , Ryan T. Armstrong