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Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

Diffusion models (DMs) are capable of generating remarkably high-quality samples by iteratively denoising a random vector, a process that corresponds to moving along the probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF ODE).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liangchen Li , Jiajun He

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generative quality but remain bottlenecked by costly iterative sampling. Recent training-free methods accelerate diffusion process by reusing model outputs. However, these methods ignore denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jiajian Xie , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Zhou Zhao , Shengyu Zhang

Medical image segmentation often involves inherent uncertainty due to variations in expert annotations. Capturing this uncertainty is an important goal and previous works have used various generative image models for the purpose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jakob Lønborg Christensen , Morten Rieger Hannemose , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Vedrana Andersen Dahl

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating realistic images from arbitrary text prompts. However, they often produce inconsistent results for compositional prompts such as "two dogs" or "a penguin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shuangqi Li , Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Mathieu Salzmann

Noise and artifacts are intrinsic to low dose CT (LDCT) data acquisition, and will significantly affect the imaging performance. Perfect noise removal and image restoration is intractable in the context of LDCT due to the statistical and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Peixi Liao , Hongyu Yang , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated high-quality performance in conditional text-to-image generation, particularly with structural cues such as edges, layouts, and depth. However, lighting conditions have received limited attention and…

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We introduce a new class of generative diffusion models that, unlike conventional denoising diffusion models, achieve a time-homogeneous structure for both the noising and denoising processes, allowing the number of steps to adaptively…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-23 Sören Christensen , Jan Kallsen , Claudia Strauch , Lukas Trottner

We introduce a novel method for conditioning diffusion-based image synthesis models with heterogeneous graph data. Existing approaches typically incorporate conditioning variables directly into model architectures, either through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Rupert Menneer , Christos Margadji , Sebastian W. Pattinson

There is strong empirical evidence that the state-of-the-art diffusion modeling paradigm leads to models that memorize the training set, especially when the training set is small. Prior methods to mitigate the memorization problem often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kulin Shah , Alkis Kalavasis , Adam R. Klivans , Giannis Daras

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for image synthesis, demonstrating exceptional photorealism and diversity. However, training diffusion models at high resolutions remains computationally prohibitive, and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Tobias Vontobel , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) became a clear trend in radiology with an aspiration to refrain from delivering excessive X-ray radiation to the patients. The reduction of the radiation dose decreases the risks to the patients but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Elvira Zainulina , Alexey Chernyavskiy , Dmitry V. Dylov

Computed tomography (CT) serves as an effective tool for lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, providing a rich source of features to quantify temporal and spatial tumor changes. Nonetheless, the diversity of CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Faraneh Fathi , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Guoqiang Yu , Jin Chen

Recent diffusion-based generative models achieve remarkable results by training on massive datasets, yet this practice raises concerns about memorization and copyright infringement. A proposed remedy is to train exclusively on noisy data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Haoye Lu , Qifan Wu , Yaoliang Yu

Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

State-of-the art vision models can achieve superhuman performance on image classification tasks when testing and training data come from the same distribution. However, when models are tested on corrupted images (e.g. due to scale changes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Luke Metz , Niru Maheswaranathan , Jonathon Shlens , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Ekin D. Cubuk

Noise synthesis is a challenging low-level vision task aiming to generate realistic noise given a clean image along with the camera settings. To this end, we propose an effective generative model which utilizes clean features as guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mingyang Song , Yang Zhang , Tunç O. Aydın , Elham Amin Mansour , Christopher Schroers

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) allows the reduction of radiation risk in clinical applications at the expense of image quality, which deteriorates the diagnosis accuracy of radiologists. In this work, we present a High-Quality Imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Jingfeng Lu , Shuo Wang , Ping Li , Dong Ye

Diffusion models have recently dominated image synthesis tasks. However, the iterative denoising process is expensive in computations at inference time, making diffusion models less practical for low-latency and scalable real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yefei He , Luping Liu , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

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