English
Related papers

Related papers: Texture-Aware StarGAN for CT data harmonisation

200 papers

Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-invasive imaging modality with applications ranging from healthcare to security. It reconstructs cross-sectional images of an object using a collection of projection data collected at different angles.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

The limited sample size and insufficient diversity of lung nodule CT datasets severely restrict the performance and generalization ability of detection models. Existing methods generate images with insufficient diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lu Cao , Xiquan He , Junying Zeng , Chaoyun Mai , Min Luo

Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Giammarco La Barbera , Haithem Boussaid , Francesco Maso , Sabine Sarnacki , Laurence Rouet , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Computed tomography (CT) can provide a 3D view of the patient's internal organs, facilitating disease diagnosis, but it incurs more radiation dose to a patient and a CT scanner is much more cost prohibitive than an X-ray machine too.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Xingde Ying , Heng Guo , Kai Ma , Jian Wu , Zhengxin Weng , Yefeng Zheng

Deep learning has been used extensively for medical image analysis applications, assuming the training and test data adhere to the same probability distributions. However, a common challenge arises when dealing with medical images generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Mohd Usama , Emma Nyman , Ulf Naslund , Christer Gronlund

Due to the rapid growth of Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) applications in several industrial fields, there is a crucial need for developing high quality, yet fast, methodologies of image reconstruction from raw capacitance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Wael Deabes , Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have surfaced as a revolutionary element within the domain of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging, providing an advanced resolution to the enduring issue of reconciling radiation exposure with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Yunuo Wang , Ningning Yang , Jialin Li

Unsupervised image-to-image translation has gained considerable attention due to the recent impressive progress based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, previous methods often fail in challenging cases, in particular, when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Sangwoo Mo , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

Image synthesis via Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) of three-dimensional (3D) medical images has great potential that can be extended to many medical applications, such as, image enhancement and disease progression modeling. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Sungmin Hong , Razvan Marinescu , Adrian V. Dalca , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Martin Bretzner , Natalia S. Rost , Polina Golland

In the past several decades, many attempts have been made to model synthetic realistic geometric data. The goal of such models is to generate plausible 3D geometries and textures. Perhaps the best known of its kind is the linear 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ron Slossberg , Gil Shamai , Ron Kimmel

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve excellent computer-assisted diagnosis with sufficient annotated training data. However, most medical imaging datasets are small and fragmented. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Changhee Han , Leonardo Rundo , Ryosuke Araki , Yudai Nagano , Yujiro Furukawa , Giancarlo Mauri , Hideki Nakayama , Hideaki Hayashi

Reconstruction kernels in computed tomography (CT) affect spatial resolution and noise characteristics, introducing systematic variability in quantitative imaging measurements such as emphysema quantification. Choosing an appropriate kernel…

Medical image translation (e.g. CT to MR) is a challenging task as it requires I) faithful translation of domain-invariant features (e.g. shape information of anatomical structures) and II) realistic synthesis of target-domain features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Siyu Liu , Jason A. Dowling , Craig Engstrom , Peter B. Greer , Stuart Crozier , Shekhar S. Chandra

Computed medical imaging systems require a computational reconstruction procedure for image formation. In order to recover a useful estimate of the object to-be-imaged when the recorded measurements are incomplete, prior knowledge about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Varun A. Kelkar , Mark A. Anastasio

Recent advances show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize images with smooth variations along semantically meaningful latent directions, such as pose, expression, layout, etc. While this indicates that GANs implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jiteng Mu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang , Jan Kautz , Sifei Liu

MR-only radiotherapy treatment planning requires accurate MR-to-CT synthesis. Current deep learning methods for MR-to-CT synthesis depend on pairwise aligned MR and CT training images of the same patient. However, misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jelmer M. Wolterink , Anna M. Dinkla , Mark H. F. Savenije , Peter R. Seevinck , Cornelis A. T. van den Berg , Ivana Isgum

The translation from Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to Computed tomography (CT) has been proposed as an effective solution to facilitate MRI-only clinical workflows while limiting exposure to ionizing radiation. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alessandro Pesci , Valerio Guarrasi , Marco Alì , Isabella Castiglioni , Paolo Soda

Computed Tomography (CT) plays an essential role in clinical diagnosis. Due to the adverse effects of radiation on patients, the radiation dose is expected to be reduced as low as possible. Sparse sampling is an effective way, but it will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chang Sun , Ken Deng , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stergios Christodoulidis , Marios Anthimopoulos , Lukas Ebner , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Virtual stain transfer is a promising area of research in Computational Pathology, which has a great potential to alleviate important limitations when applying deeplearningbased solutions such as lack of annotations and sensitivity to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jelica Vasiljević , Friedrich Feuerhake , Cédric Wemmert , Thomas Lampert