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Medical image translation (e.g. CT to MR) is a challenging task as it requires I) faithful translation of domain-invariant features (e.g. shape information of anatomical structures) and II) realistic synthesis of target-domain features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Siyu Liu , Jason A. Dowling , Craig Engstrom , Peter B. Greer , Stuart Crozier , Shekhar S. Chandra

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Background: Automated segmentation of spinal MR images plays a vital role both scientifically and clinically. However, accurately delineating posterior spine structures presents challenges. Methods: This retrospective study, approved by the…

Image-to-image translation is a vital component in medical imaging processing, with many uses in a wide range of imaging modalities and clinical scenarios. Previous methods include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Yinchi Zhou , Tianqi Chen , Jun Hou , Huidong Xie , Nicha C. Dvornek , S. Kevin Zhou , David L. Wilson , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu , Bo Zhou

The clinical application of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is constrained by the inherent trade-off between radiation exposure and image quality. Ultra-sparse angular sampling, employed to reduce dose, introduces severe undersampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Junlin Wang , Jiancheng Fang , Peng Peng , Shaoyu Wang , Qiegen Liu

Research in unpaired video translation has mainly focused on short-term temporal consistency by conditioning on neighboring frames. However for transfer from simulated to photorealistic sequences, available information on the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Reuben Docea , Fiona Kolbinger , Carina Riediger , Jürgen Weitz , Stefanie Speidel

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems in computed tomography (CT). In certain applications, such as neutron CT, it can be expensive to collect large amounts of measurements even for a single scan,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Timofey Efimov , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Image-to-Image translation models can help mitigate various challenges inherent to medical image acquisition. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) leverage efficient learning in compressed latent space and constitute the core of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Junhyeok Lee , Hyunwoong Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Heeseong Eom , Joon Jang , Chul-Ho Sohn , Kyu Sung Choi

Single-source domain generalization (SDG) aims to learn a model from a single source domain that can generalize well on unseen target domains. This is an important task in computer vision, particularly relevant to medical imaging where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Boqi Chen , Yuanzhi Zhu , Yunke Ao , Sebastiano Caprara , Reto Sutter , Gunnar Rätsch , Ender Konukoglu , Anna Susmelj

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial diagnostic tool, but high-resolution scans are often slow and expensive due to extensive data acquisition requirements. Traditional MRI reconstruction methods aim to expedite this process by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Emmanuelle Bourigault , Abdullah Hamdi , Amir Jamaludin

Although diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) translation tasks, existing methods still tend to suffer from anatomical inconsistencies or degraded texture details when handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Jianqiang Lin , Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane , Xiaoli Liu

Image completion is a challenging task, particularly when ensuring that generated content seamlessly integrates with existing parts of an image. While recent diffusion models have shown promise, they often struggle with maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Michael Felsberg , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

Aside from offering state-of-the-art performance in medical image generation, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) can also serve as a representation learner to capture semantic information and potentially be used as an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Chun-Mei Feng

Low-field to high-field MRI synthesis has emerged as a cost-effective strategy to enhance image quality under hardware and acquisition constraints, particularly in scenarios where access to high-field scanners is limited or impractical.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhenxuan Zhang , Peiyuan Jing , Ruicheng Yuan , Liwei Hu , Anbang Wang , Fanwen Wang , Yinzhe Wu , Kh Tohidul Islam , Zhaolin Chen , Zi Wang , Peter Lally , Guang Yang

Image-to-image translation (I2I), and particularly its subfield of appearance transfer, which seeks to alter the visual appearance between images while maintaining structural coherence, presents formidable challenges. Despite significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuteng Ye , Guanwen Li , Hang Zhou , Cai Jiale , Junqing Yu , Yawei Luo , Zikai Song , Qilong Xing , Youjia Zhang , Wei Yang

Deformable image registration between Computed Tomography (CT) images and Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is essential for many image-guided therapies. In this paper, we propose a novel translation-based unsupervised deformable image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Zhe Xu , Jie Luo , Jiangpeng Yan , Ritvik Pulya , Xiu Li , William Wells , Jayender Jagadeesan

Motion artifacts remain a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), compromising diagnostic quality and potentially leading to misdiagnosis or repeated scans. Existing deep learning approaches for motion artifact correction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Paolo Angella , Luca Balbi , Fabrizio Ferrando , Paolo Traverso , Rosario Varriale , Vito Paolo Pastore , Matteo Santacesaria

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

Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, which necessitates understanding both coarse morphological and semantic structures, as well as carving fine boundaries. The morphological and semantic structures in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siyuan Song , Guyue Hu , Chenglong Li , Dengdi Sun , Zhe Jin , Jin Tang