English
Related papers

Related papers: Assessing the use of Diffusion models for motion a…

200 papers

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) which employ explicit likelihood characterization and a gradual sampling process to synthesize data, have gained increasing research interest. Despite their huge computational burdens due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yuheng Fan , Hanxi Liao , Shiqi Huang , Yimin Luo , Huazhu Fu , Haikun Qi

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique that can indirectly infer the microstructure of tissues and provide metrics which are subject to normal variability across subjects. Potentially abnormal values or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Samuel St-Jean , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

In this article, we present a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) for the generation of brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), conditioning its generation based on pathology (Healthy, Glioblastoma, Sclerosis, Dementia) and acquisition modality…

Plug-and-play approaches to solving inverse problems such as restoration and super-resolution have recently benefited from Diffusion-based generative priors for natural as well as medical images. However, solutions often use the standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Saikat Roy , Mahmoud Mostapha , Radu Miron , Matt Holbrook , Mariappan Nadar

Many approaches have been proposed to use diffusion models to augment training datasets for downstream tasks, such as classification. However, diffusion models are themselves trained on large datasets, often with noisy annotations, and it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Max F. Burg , Florian Wenzel , Dominik Zietlow , Max Horn , Osama Makansi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

The rapid advancement of diffusion models has significantly improved high-quality image generation, making generated content increasingly challenging to distinguish from real images and raising concerns about potential misuse. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Beilin Chu , Xuan Xu , Xin Wang , Yufei Zhang , Weike You , Linna Zhou

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Arya Bangun , Zhuo Cao , Alessio Quercia , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a vital diagnostic tool, but its inherently long acquisition times reduce clinical efficiency and patient comfort. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly diffusion models, have improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Jinkui Hao , Bo Zhou

An attention guided scheme for metal artifact correction in MRI using deep neural network is proposed in this paper. The inputs of the networks are two distorted images obtained with dual-polarity readout gradients. With MR image generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Jee Won Kim , Kinam Kwon , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park

Diffusion models were initially developed for text-to-image generation and are now being utilized to generate high quality synthetic images. Preceded by GANs, diffusion models have shown impressive results using various evaluation metrics.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Muhammad Usman Akbar , Wuhao Wang , Anders Eklund

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but long acquisition times limit throughput, patient comfort, and clinical accessibility. Diffusion-based generative models serve as strong image priors for reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sriram Ravula , Brett Levac , Yamin Arefeen , Ajil Jalal , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jonathan I. Tamir

Image data augmentation constitutes a critical methodology in modern computer vision tasks, since it can facilitate towards enhancing the diversity and quality of training datasets; thereby, improving the performance and robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Panagiotis Alimisis , Ioannis Mademlis , Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited significant effectiveness in computer vision tasks, particularly in image generation. However, their notable performance heavily relies on labelled datasets, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Keqiang Fan , Xiaohao Cai , Mahesan Niranjan

Diffusion models have become a popular approach for image generation and reconstruction due to their numerous advantages. However, most diffusion-based inverse problem-solving methods only deal with 2D images, and even recently published 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Suhyeon Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Minyoung Park , Jonghyuk Park , Wi-Sun Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

We develop and evaluate a neural network-based method for Gibbs artifact and noise removal. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed for artifact removal in diffusion-weighted imaging data. Two implementations were considered: one…

Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a straightforward way of characterizing tissue and locating lesions of patients as in standard diagnosis. However, abdominal MRI often suffers from respiratory motion artifacts, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Wenhao Jiang , Zhiyu Liu , Kit-Hang Lee , Shihui Chen , Yui-Lun Ng , Qi Dou , Hing-Chiu Chang , Ka-Wai Kwok

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging modality boasting great soft tissue contrast without ionizing radiation, but unfortunately suffers from long acquisition times. Long scan times can lead to motion artifacts,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Sofia Kardonik , Jonathan I. Tamir