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According to the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification scheme for gliomas, glioma segmentation is a very important basis for diagnosis and genotype prediction. In general, 3D multimodal brain MRI is an effective diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Xiaoyu Shi , Shurong Chai , Yinhao Li , Jingliang Cheng , Jie Bai , Guohua Zhao , Yen-Wei Chen

Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is widely applied for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Reducing the dose of the injected tracer is essential for lowering the patient's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xiongchao Chen , Bo Zhou , Huidong Xie , Xueqi Guo , Qiong Liu , Albert J. Sinusas , Chi Liu

Radiotherapy treatment planning often relies on time-consuming, trial-and-error adjustments that heavily depend on the expertise of specialists, while existing deep learning methods face limitations in generalization, prediction accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hui Xie , Haiqin Hu , Lijuan Ding , Qing Li , Yue Sun , Tao Tan

We propose Dual Cross-Attention (DCA), a simple yet effective attention module that is able to enhance skip-connections in U-Net-based architectures for medical image segmentation. DCA addresses the semantic gap between encoder and decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Gorkem Can Ates , Prasoon Mohan , Emrah Celik

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xiaoxiao Wu , Xiaowei Chen , Zhenguo Gao , Shulei Qu , Yuanyuan Qiu

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising algorithms aim to enable reduced patient dose in routine CT acquisitions while maintaining high image quality. Recently, deep learning~(DL)-based methods were introduced, outperforming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Felix Denzinger , Mingxuan Gu , Mayank Patwari , Stefan Ploner , Noah Maul , Laura Pfaff , Yixing Huang , Andreas Maier

A standard dose of radioactive tracer must be delivered into the patients body to obtain high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images for diagnostic purposes, which raises the risk of radiation harm. A reduced tracer dose, on the…

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

The direction-of-arrival (DOA) of sound sources is an essential acoustic parameter used, e.g., for multi-channel speech enhancement or source tracking. Complex acoustic scenarios consisting of sources-of-interest, interfering sources,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Wolfgang Mack , Julian Wechsler , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Diffusion models (DMs) embark a new era of generative modeling and offer more opportunities for efficient generating high-quality and realistic data samples. However, their widespread use has also brought forth new challenges in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jingyao Xu , Yuetong Lu , Yandong Li , Siyang Lu , Dongdong Wang , Xiang Wei

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging is desirable in many clinical applications to reduce X-ray radiation dose to patients. Inspired by deep learning (DL), a recent promising direction of model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) methods for LDCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Qiaoqiao Ding , Yuesong Nan , Hao Gao , Hui Ji

We propose AttentionMixer, a unified deep learning framework for multimodal detection of brain edema that combines structural head CT (HCT) with routine clinical metadata. While HCT provides rich spatial information, clinical variables such…

PET super-resolution is highly under-constrained because paired multi-resolution scans from the same subject are rarely available, and effective resolution is determined by scanner-specific physics (e.g., PSF, detector geometry, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liutao Yang , Zi Wang , Peiyuan Jing , Xiaowen Wang , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Kuangyu Shi , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Affine registration plays a crucial role in PET/CT imaging, where aligning PET with CT images is challenging due to their respective functional and anatomical representations. Despite the significant promise shown by recent deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Junyu Chen , Yihao Liu , Shuwen Wei , Aaron Carass , Yong Du

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an essential technique in many clinical applications that allows for quantitative imaging at the molecular level. This study aims to develop a denoising method using novel dilated convolutional neural…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Karl Spuhler , Mario Serrano-Sosa , Renee Cattell , Christine DeLorenzo , Chuan Huang

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness among diabetic patients. Deep learning models have shown promising results in automating the detection of DR. In the present work, we propose a new methodology that integrates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Susmita Ghosh , Abhiroop Chatterjee

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang