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Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

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Diffusion models have advanced generative AI significantly in terms of editing and creating naturalistic images. However, efficiently improving generated image quality is still of paramount interest. In this context, we propose a generic…

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Scoliosis diagnosis and assessment depend largely on the measurement of the Cobb angle in spine X-ray images. With the emergence of deep learning techniques that employ landmark detection, tilt prediction, and spine segmentation, automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhengxuan Qiu , Jie Yang , Jiankun Wang

Capsule endoscopy has enabled minimally invasive gastrointestinal imaging, but its clinical utility is limited by the inherently low resolution of captured images due to hardware, power, and transmission constraints. This limitation hampers…

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Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for effective diagnosis and treatment planning but is often challenged by domain shifts caused by variations in imaging devices, acquisition conditions, and patient-specific attributes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Jie Bao , Zhixin Zhou , Wen Jung Li , Rui Luo

Pseudo-healthy image inpainting is an essential preprocessing step for analyzing pathological brain MRI scans. Most current inpainting methods favor slice-wise 2D models for their high in-plane fidelity, but their independence across slices…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Dou Hoon Kwark , Shirui Luo , Xiyue Zhu , Yudu Li , Zhi-Pei Liang , Volodymyr Kindratenko

Purpose. Given the high level of expertise required for navigation and interpretation of ultrasound images, computational simulations can facilitate the training of such skills in virtual reality. With ray-tracing based simulations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Lin Zhang , Tiziano Portenier , Orcun Goksel

Purpose: The objective of this work is to introduce an advanced framework designed to enhance ultrasound images, especially those captured by portable hand-held devices, which often produce lower quality images due to hardware constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Shreeram Athreya , Ashwath Radhachandran , Vedrana Ivezić , Vivek Sant , Corey W. Arnold , William Speier

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

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Prior work on the Image Quality Transfer on Diffusion MRI (dMRI) has shown significant improvement over traditional interpolation methods. However, the difficulty in obtaining ultra-high resolution Diffusion MRI scans poses a problem in…

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…

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Image quality assessment (IQA) plays a critical role in optimizing radiation dose and developing novel medical imaging techniques in computed tomography (CT). Traditional IQA methods relying on hand-crafted features have limitations in…

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The scarcity and complexity of voxel-level annotations in 3D medical imaging present significant challenges, particularly due to the domain gap between labeled datasets from well-resourced centers and unlabeled datasets from less-resourced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Haifan Gong , Yitao Wang , Yihan Wang , Jiashun Xiao , Xiang Wan , Haofeng Li

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

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Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

We present a physics-informed deep learning framework to address common limitations in Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), such as diffraction limited resolution, noise, and undersampling due to low laser power conditions. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Zaheer Ahmad , Junaid Shabeer , Usman Saleem , Tahir Qadeer , Abdul Sami , Zahira El Khalidi , Saad Mehmood

Ultrasound is the most widely used medical imaging modality, yet the images it produces are fundamentally unique, arising from tissue-dependent scattering, reflection, and speed-of-sound variations that produce a constrained set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Tal Grutman , Carmel Shinar , Tali Ilovitsh

Image reconstruction from radio-frequency data is pivotal in ultrafast plane wave ultrasound imaging. Unlike the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) technique, which relies on somewhat imprecise assumptions, deep learning-based methods perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Hengrong Lan , Zhiqiang Li , Qiong He , Jianwen Luo