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Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

Deep learning models in the Earth Observation domain heavily rely on the availability of large-scale accurately labeled satellite imagery. However, obtaining and labeling satellite imagery is a resource-intensive endeavor. While generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Orkhan Baghirli , Hamid Askarov , Imran Ibrahimli , Ismat Bakhishov , Nabi Nabiyev

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Boxiao Yu , Savas Ozdemir , Jiong Wu , Yizhou Chen , Ruogu Fang , Kuangyu Shi , Kuang Gong

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved unprecedented success in computer vision. However, they remain underutilized in medical imaging, a field crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. This is primarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hongxu Jiang , Muhammad Imran , Teng Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Muxuan Liang , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

Patients undergoing a mechanical thrombectomy procedure usually have a multi-detector CT (MDCT) scan before and after the intervention. The image quality of the flat panel detector CT (FDCT) present in the intervention room is generally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Hélène Corbaz , Anh Nguyen , Victor Schulze-Zachau , Paul Friedrich , Alicia Durrer , Florentin Bieder , Philippe C. Cattin , Marios N Psychogios

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important topic in the field of radiology over the past decades. LDCT reduces ionizing radiation-induced patient health risks but it also results in a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Wenjun Xia , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

PET imaging is widely employed for observing biological metabolic activities within the human body. However, numerous benign conditions can cause increased uptake of radiopharmaceuticals, confounding differentiation from malignant tumors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ran Hong , Yuxia Huang , Lei Liu , Zhonghui Wu , Bingxuan Li , Xuemei Wang , Qiegen Liu

Lung cancer is an extremely lethal disease primarily due to its late-stage diagnosis and significant mortality rate, making it the major cause of cancer-related demises globally. Machine Learning (ML) and Convolution Neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Asha V , Bhavanishankar K

Objective: Although medical imaging datasets are increasingly available, abnormal and annotation-intensive findings critical to lung cancer screening, particularly small pulmonary nodules, remain underrepresented and inconsistently curated.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Fakrul Islam Tushar , Ehsan Samei , Cynthia Rudin , Joseph Y. Lo

The ability to detect manipulated visual content is becoming increasingly important in many application fields, given the rapid advances in image synthesis methods. Of particular concern is the possibility of modifying the content of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Giada Zingarini , Davide Cozzolino , Riccardo Corvi , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is the current standard for lung cancer screening, yet its adoption and accessibility remain limited. Many regions lack LDCT infrastructure, and even among those screened, early-stage cancer detection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Joyoni Dey , Hunter C. Meyer , Murtuza S. Taqi

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Yuli Wu , Weidong He , Dennis Eschweiler , Ningxin Dou , Zixin Fan , Shengli Mi , Peter Walter , Johannes Stegmaier

The diffusion model has recently emerged as a potent approach in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable performances in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Capable of producing high-quality synthetic images, diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Abdullah , Tao Huang , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

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

Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Runyi Li

Developing reliable healthcare AI models requires training with representative and diverse data. In imbalanced datasets, model performance tends to plateau on the more prevalent classes while remaining low on less common cases. To overcome…

Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in most countries of the world. Since prompt diagnosis of tumors can allow oncologists to discern their nature, type and the mode of treatment, tumor detection and segmentation from CT Scan images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Farhanaz Farheen , Md. Salman Shamil , Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

This study evaluates publicly available deep-learning based lung segmentation models in transplant-eligible patients to determine their performance across disease severity levels, pathology categories, and lung sides, and to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jisoo Lee , Michael R. Harowicz , Yuwen Chen , Hanxue Gu , Isaac S. Alderete , Lin Li , Maciej A. Mazurowski , Matthew G. Hartwig

Access to high-quality datasets in the medical industry limits machine learning model performance. To address this issue, we propose a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) combined with a UNet architecture for X-ray image…

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