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Vessel segmentation in medical images is one of the important tasks in the diagnosis of vascular diseases and therapy planning. Although learning-based segmentation approaches have been extensively studied, a large amount of ground-truth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Boah Kim , Yujin Oh , Jong Chul Ye

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited annotated data and rich unlabeled data to perform accurate segmentation. However, existing semi-supervised methods are highly dependent on the quality of self-generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Xinyu Liu , Wuyang Li , Yixuan Yuan

It has been suggested that generative image models such as diffusion models can improve performance on clinically relevant tasks by offering deep learning models supplementary training data. However, most conditional diffusion models treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Gustav Schmidt , Philipp Berens , Sarah Müller

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods using class labels often rely on class activation maps (CAMs) to localize objects. However, traditional CAM-based methods struggle with partial activations and imprecise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dewen Zeng , Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Medical image segmentation is critical for computer-aided diagnosis. However, dense pixel-level annotation is time-consuming and expensive, and medical datasets often exhibit severe class imbalance. Such imbalance causes minority structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yingxue Su , Yiheng Zhong , Keying Zhu , Zimu Zhang , Zhuoru Zhang , Yifang Wang , Yuxin Zhang , Jingxin Liu

We present a framework to take advantage of existing labels at inference, called \textit{exemplars}, in order to improve the performance of object detection in medical images. The method, \textit{exemplar diffusion}, leverages existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Victor Wåhlstrand , Jennifer Alvén , Ida Häggström

Diffusion models and multi-scale features are essential components in semantic segmentation tasks that deal with remote-sensing images. They contribute to improved segmentation boundaries and offer significant contextual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Qi Zhang , Guohua Geng , Longquan Yan , Pengbo Zhou , Zhaodi Li , Kang Li , Qinglin Liu

Medical image segmentation is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis, and convolutional neural networks are popular segmentation networks nowadays. However, the inherent local operation characteristics make it difficult to focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Fenghe Tang , Jianrui Ding , Lingtao Wang , Min Xian , Chunping Ning

Segmentation of brain structures from MRI is crucial for evaluating brain morphology, yet existing CNN and transformer-based methods struggle to delineate complex structures accurately. While current diffusion models have shown promise in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qilong Xing , Zikai Song , Yuteng Ye , Yuke Chen , Youjia Zhang , Na Feng , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

In the realm of image synthesis, achieving fidelity to a reference image while adhering to conditional prompts remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates a diffusion model with latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kshitij Pathania

Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) recently becomes one of the hottest topic in computer vision. Its image generation application such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Diffusion have shown impressive generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Huihui Fang , Yu Zhang , Yehui Yang , Haoyi Xiong , Huiying Liu , Yanwu Xu

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…

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

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently received much research attention since they outperform alternative approaches, such as GANs, and currently provide state-of-the-art generative performance. The superior performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dmitry Baranchuk , Ivan Rubachev , Andrey Voynov , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis

Neuron segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) aims to reconstruct the complete neuronal connectome; however, current deep learning-based methods are limited by their reliance on large-scale training data and extensive, time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Liuyun Jiang , Yanchao Zhang , Jinyue Guo , Yizhuo Lu , Ruining Zhou , Hua Han

Applying machine learning to real-world medical data, e.g. from hospital archives, has the potential to revolutionize disease detection in brain images. However, detecting pathology in such heterogeneous cohorts is a difficult challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Ana Lawry Aguila , Ayodeji Ijishakin , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Takeharu Yoshikawa , Osamu Abe , Shouhei Hanaoka

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

Ambiguity in medical image segmentation calls for models that capture full conditional distributions rather than a single point estimate. We present Prior-Guided Residual Diffusion (PGRD), a diffusion-based framework that learns voxel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fuyou Mao , Beining Wu , Yanfeng Jiang , Han Xue , Yan Tang , Hao Zhang