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Modern biomedical image analysis using deep learning often encounters the challenge of limited annotated data. To overcome this issue, deep generative models can be employed to synthesize realistic biomedical images. In this regard, we…

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Purpose: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) enables non-invasive assessment of brain abnormalities during early life development. Permanent magnet scanners operating in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) facilitate MRI of sick infants,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Bhairav Patel , Chang Ho , Jonathan I. Tamir

Accurate embryo morphology assessment is essential in assisted reproductive technology for selecting the most viable embryo. Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance this process. However, the limited availability of embryo data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Oriana Presacan , Alexandru Dorobantiu , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Mette H. Stensen , Mario Iliceto , Alexandru C. Aldea , Akriti Sharma

In this study, a novel method of data augmentation has been presented for the segmentation of placental histological images when the labeled data are scarce. This method generates new realizations of the placenta intervillous morphology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Arash Rabbani , Masoud Babaei , Masoumeh Gharib

Achieving robust performance and fairness across diverse patient populations remains a challenge in developing clinically deployable deep learning models for diagnostic imaging. Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising strategy…

Synthetic cardiac MRI (CMRI) generation has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the scarcity of annotated medical imaging data. Recent advances in GANs, VAEs, diffusion probabilistic models, and flow-matching techniques aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ishan Kumarasinghe , Dasuni Kawya , Madhura Edirisooriya , Isuri Devindi , Isuru Nawinne , Vajira Thambawita

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Generative AI models hold great potential in creating synthetic brain MRIs that advance neuroimaging studies by, for example, enriching data diversity. However, the mainstay of AI research only focuses on optimizing the visual quality (such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Wei Peng , Tomas Bosschieter , Jiahong Ouyang , Robert Paul , Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Kilian M. Pohl

In order to take advantage of AI solutions in endoscopy diagnostics, we must overcome the issue of limited annotations. These limitations are caused by the high privacy concerns in the medical field and the requirement of getting aid from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Roman Macháček , Leila Mozaffari , Zahra Sepasdar , Sravanthi Parasa , Pål Halvorsen , Michael A. Riegler , Vajira Thambawita

Histopathology image classification is crucial for the accurate identification and diagnosis of various diseases but requires large and diverse datasets. Obtaining such datasets, however, is often costly and time-consuming due to the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Leire Benito-Del-Valle , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Itziar Eguskiza , Cristina L. Saratxaga

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

This paper presents an annotated dataset of brain MRI images designed to advance the field of brain symmetry study. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained interest in analyzing brain symmetry in neonatal infants, and challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Arnaud Gucciardi , Safouane El Ghazouali , Francesca Venturini , Vida Groznik , Umberto Michelucci

Data driven models for automated diagnosis in radiology suffer from insufficient and imbalanced datasets due to low representation of pathology in a population and the cost of expert annotations. Datasets can be bolstered through data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Colin Hansen , Simas Glinskis , Ashwin Raju , Micha Kornreich , JinHyeong Park , Jayashri Pawar , Richard Herzog , Li Zhang , Benjamin Odry

To the best of our knowledge, all existing methods that can generate synthetic brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for a specific individual require detailed structural or volumetric information about the individual's brain.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-25 Ruijie Wang , Luca Rossetto , Susan Mérillat , Christina Röcke , Mike Martin , Abraham Bernstein

Preparing training data for deep vision models is a labor-intensive task. To address this, generative models have emerged as an effective solution for generating synthetic data. While current generative models produce image-level category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Recent years have witnessed a growing academic and industrial interest in deep learning (DL) for medical imaging. To perform well, DL models require very large labeled datasets. However, most medical imaging datasets are small, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Minh H. Vu , Lorenzo Tronchin , Tufve Nyholm , Tommy Löfstedt

Despite the ever-increasing interest in applying deep learning (DL) models to medical imaging, the typical scarcity and imbalance of medical datasets can severely impact the performance of DL models. The generation of synthetic data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Pouria Rouzrokh , Bardia Khosravi , Shahriar Faghani , Mana Moassefi , Sanaz Vahdati , Bradley J. Erickson

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

Purpose: To explore best-practice approaches for generating synthetic chest X-ray images and augmenting medical imaging datasets to optimize the performance of deep learning models in downstream tasks like classification and segmentation.…

Prenatal ultrasound imaging is the first-choice modality to assess fetal health. Medical image datasets for AI and ML methods must be diverse (i.e. diagnoses, diseases, pathologies, scanners, demographics, etc), however there are few public…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Michelle Iskandar , Harvey Mannering , Zhanxiang Sun , Jacqueline Matthew , Hamideh Kerdegari , Laura Peralta , Miguel Xochicale