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Generative diffusion models offer a natural choice for data augmentation when training complex vision models. However, ensuring reliability of their generative content as augmentation samples remains an open challenge. Despite a number of…

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Medical image segmentation is critical for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring, yet segmentation models often struggle with uncertainties stemming from occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and variations in imaging devices.…

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Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

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We propose a method that augments a simulated dataset using diffusion models to improve the performance of pedestrian detection in real-world data. The high cost of collecting and annotating data in the real-world has motivated the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Andrew Farley , Mohsen Zand , Michael Greenspan

High-quality, large-scale data is essential for robust deep learning models in medical applications, particularly ultrasound image analysis. Diffusion models facilitate high-fidelity medical image generation, reducing the costs associated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Pooria Ashrafian , Milad Yazdani , Moein Heidari , Dena Shahriari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Synthetic data generation is an important application of machine learning in the field of medical imaging. While existing approaches have successfully applied fine-tuned diffusion models for synthesizing medical images, we explore potential…

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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…

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Data augmentation is a ubiquitous technique for increasing the size of labeled training sets by leveraging task-specific data transformations that preserve class labels. While it is often easy for domain experts to specify individual…

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The success of neural networks on medical image segmentation tasks typically relies on large labeled datasets for model training. However, acquiring and manually labeling a large medical image set is resource-intensive, expensive, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Chen Chen , Chen Qin , Cheng Ouyang , Zeju Li , Shuo Wang , Huaqi Qiu , Liang Chen , Giacomo Tarroni , Wenjia Bai , Daniel Rueckert

Data augmentation is widely used to enhance generalization in visual classification tasks. However, traditional methods struggle when source and target domains differ, as in domain adaptation, due to their inability to address domain gaps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Karthik Nandakumar , Naveed Akhtar

Medical image understanding requires meticulous examination of fine visual details, with particular regions requiring additional attention. While radiologists build such expertise over years of experience, it is challenging for AI models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ying Jin , Zhuoran Zhou , Haoquan Fang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

With the rapid scaling of neural networks, data storage and communication demands have intensified. Dataset distillation has emerged as a promising solution, condensing information from extensive datasets into a compact set of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ali Abbasi , Shima Imani , Chenyang An , Gayathri Mahalingam , Harsh Shrivastava , Maurice Diesendruck , Hamed Pirsiavash , Pramod Sharma , Soheil Kolouri

Recent advances in computer vision have led to significant progress in the generation of realistic image data, with denoising diffusion probabilistic models proving to be a particularly effective method. In this study, we demonstrate that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Dennis Eschweiler , Rüveyda Yilmaz , Matisse Baumann , Ina Laube , Rijo Roy , Abin Jose , Daniel Brückner , Johannes Stegmaier

Supervised learning-based segmentation methods typically require a large number of annotated training data to generalize well at test time. In medical applications, curating such datasets is not a favourable option because acquiring a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Krishna Chaitanya , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ertunc Erdil , Anton Becker , Olivio Donati , Ender Konukoglu

Data augmentation is widely used to train deep learning models to address data scarcity. However, traditional data augmentation (TDA) typically relies on simple geometric transformation, such as random rotation and rescaling, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dekai Zhu , Stefan Gavranovic , Flavien Boussuge , Benjamin Busam , Slobodan Ilic

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

Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, computer-assisted diagnoses of medical images have gained much attention, and robust methods of semantic segmentation of Computed Tomography (CT) images have become highly desirable. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Bruno A. Krinski , Daniel V. Ruiz , Rayson Laroca , Eduardo Todt

Annotation and labeling of images are some of the biggest challenges in applying deep learning to medical data. Current processes are time and cost-intensive and, therefore, a limiting factor for the wide adoption of the technology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Manuel Zahn , Douglas P. Perrin

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic models have become increasingly popular due to their ability to offer probabilistic modeling and generate diverse outputs. This versatility inspired their adaptation for image segmentation, where multiple…

Simple data augmentation techniques, such as rotations and flips, are widely used to enhance the generalization power of computer vision models. However, these techniques often fail to modify high-level semantic attributes of a class. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tobias Lingenberg , Markus Reuter , Gopika Sudhakaran , Dominik Gojny , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer