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Medical image synthesis plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, addressing the common issue of missing imaging modalities due to factors such as extended scan times, scan corruption, artifacts, patient motion, and intolerance to…

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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but their practical application is often hindered by the slow sampling speed. Prior efforts of improving efficiency primarily focus on compressing models or reducing the…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for many healthcare tasks, including disease diagnosis and treatment planning. One key area is the segmentation of skin lesions, which is vital for diagnosing skin cancer and monitoring patients. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Gaby Maroun , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

In this work, we propose a novel framework to enable diffusion models to adapt their generation quality based on real-time network bandwidth constraints. Traditional diffusion models produce high-fidelity images by performing a fixed number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xi Zhang , Hanwei Zhu , Yan Zhong , Jiamang Wang , Weisi Lin

Medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable advancements using deep neural networks (DNNs). However, DNNs often need big amounts of data and annotations for training, both of which can be difficult and costly to obtain. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hengji Cui , Dong Wei , Kai Ma , Shi Gu , Yefeng Zheng

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental but challenging task in the quantitative analysis of histopathology images. Although fully-supervised deep learning-based methods have made significant progress, a large number of labeled images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Xinyi Yu , Guanbin Li , Wei Lou , Siqi Liu , Xiang Wan , Yan Chen , Haofeng Li

Brain network analysis has emerged as pivotal method for gaining a deeper understanding of brain functions and disease mechanisms. Despite the existence of various network construction approaches, shortcomings persist in the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yongcheng Zong , Shuqiang Wang

Constructing high-definition (HD) maps is a crucial requirement for enabling autonomous driving. In recent years, several map segmentation algorithms have been developed to address this need, leveraging advancements in Bird's-Eye View (BEV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Peijin Jia , Tuopu Wen , Ziang Luo , Mengmeng Yang , Kun Jiang , Zhiquan Lei , Xuewei Tang , Ziyuan Liu , Le Cui , Bo Zhang , Long Huang , Diange Yang

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced in image deblurring and exhibited promising performance, particularly in terms of details reconstruction. However, the diffusion model requires a large number of inference iterations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Ding Liu , Bin Xia , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

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 Probabilistic Methods are employed for state-of-the-art image generation. In this work, we present a method for extending such models for performing image segmentation. The method learns end-to-end, without relying on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Tomer Amit , Tal Shaharbany , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

The performance of single image super-resolution depends heavily on how to generate and complement high-frequency details to low-resolution images. Recently, diffusion-based DDPM models exhibit great potential in generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xingjian Wang , Li Chai , Jiming Chen

Diffusion models have enabled remarkably high-quality medical image generation, yet it is challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated images. To this end, we propose a diffusion model-based method that supports…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Nicholas Konz , Yuwen Chen , Haoyu Dong , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic models have become increasingly popular due to their ability to offer probabilistic modeling and generate diverse outputs. This versatility inspired their adaptation for image segmentation, where multiple…

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Skin diseases affect millions of people worldwide, across all ethnicities. Increasing diagnosis accessibility requires fair and accurate segmentation and classification of dermatology images. However, the scarcity of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Héctor Carrión , Narges Norouzi

Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate molecules that can bind tightly to the target protein, is an essential problem in drug discovery, and previous approaches have achieved initial success. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Xinze Li , Penglei Wang , Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Chengtao Li , Leilei Shi , Junhong Liu

Recently, the Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM)-based methods have achieved substantial success in the field of medical image segmentation. However, most of these methods fail to enable the diffusion model to learn edge features and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Tingwei Liu , Miao Zhang , Leiye Liu , Jialong Zhong , Shuyao Wang , Yongri Piao , Huchuan Lu