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Developing new methods for the automated analysis of clinical fetal and neonatal MRI data is limited by the scarcity of annotated pathological datasets and privacy concerns that often restrict data sharing, hindering the effectiveness of…

Non-contrast CT (NCCT) imaging may reduce image contrast and anatomical visibility, potentially increasing diagnostic uncertainty. In contrast, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) facilitates the observation of regions of interest (ROI). Leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Tingyi Lin , Pengju Lyu , Jie Zhang , Yuqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Jianjun Zhu

The segmentation and tracking of living cells play a vital role within the biomedical domain, particularly in cancer research, drug development, and developmental biology. These are usually tedious and time-consuming tasks that are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Dennis Eschweiler , Johannes Stegmaier

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved remarkable success in various image generation tasks compared with Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs). Recent work on semantic image synthesis mainly follows the de facto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Wengang Zhou , Weilun Wang , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Dong Chen , Lu Yuan , Houqiang Li

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

This study aims to develop a novel Cycle-guided Denoising Diffusion Probability Model (CG-DDPM) for cross-modality MRI synthesis. The CG-DDPM deploys two DDPMs that condition each other to generate synthetic images from two different MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Shaoyan Pan , Chih-Wei Chang , Junbo Peng , Jiahan Zhang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Tian Liu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) represent a contemporary class of generative models with exceptional qualities in both synthesis and maximizing the data likelihood. These models work by traversing a forward Markov Chain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hang Li , Wei Jin , Geri Skenderi , Harry Shomer , Wenzhuo Tang , Wenqi Fan , Jiliang Tang

Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable abilities to synthesize striking image samples since the introduction of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). Their key idea is to disrupt images into noise through a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jun Yu , Qi Tian

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Generating high-fidelity and biologically plausible synthetic single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data, especially with conditional control, is challenging due to its high dimensionality, sparsity, and complex biological variations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lorenzo Bini , Stephane Marchand-Maillet

Image segmentation is crucial in many computational pathology pipelines, including accurate disease diagnosis, subtyping, outcome, and survivability prediction. The common approach for training a segmentation model relies on a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sachin Kumar Danisetty , Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sashank Makanaboyina

Detecting anomalies in brain MRI scans using supervised deep learning methods presents challenges due to anatomical diversity and labor-intensive requirement of pixel-level annotations. Generative models like Denoising Diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Vivek Kumar Trivedi , Bheeshm Sharma , P. Balamurugan

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

As a new emerging and promising type of generative models, diffusion models have proven to outperform Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in multiple tasks, including image synthesis. In this work, we explore semantic image synthesis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yan Zhuang , Benjamin Hou , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Boah Kim , Ronald M. Summers

Despite significant progress in generative modelling, existing diffusion models often struggle to produce anatomically precise female pelvic images, limiting their application in gynaecological imaging, where data scarcity and patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Johanna P. Müller , Anika Knupfer , Pedro Blöss , Edoardo Berardi Vittur , Bernhard Kainz , Jana Hutter

Access to high-quality datasets in the medical industry limits machine learning model performance. To address this issue, we propose a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) combined with a UNet architecture for X-ray image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Praveen Mahaulpatha , Thulana Abeywardane , Tomson George

Recent advances in Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have set new standards in high-quality image synthesis. Yet, controlled generation remains challenging, particularly in sensitive areas such as medical imaging. Medical images feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sarah Cechnicka , Matthew Baugh , Weitong Zhang , Mischa Dombrowski , Zhe Li , Johannes C. Paetzold , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

Objective: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a low-dose imaging alternative to conventional CT, but suffers from noise, scatter, and artifacts that degrade image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) aims to translate CBCT to high-quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Alessandro Perelli

Mammography is the most commonly used imaging modality for breast cancer screening, driving an increasing demand for deep-learning techniques to support large-scale analysis. However, the development of accurate and robust methods is often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Xin Li , Kaixiang Yang , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang