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Deep learning had already demonstrated its power in medical images, including denoising, classification, segmentation, etc. All these applications are proposed to automatically analyze medical images beforehand, which brings more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Shao-Cheng Wen , Yu-Jen Chen , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang

Image fusion typically employs non-invertible neural networks to merge multiple source images into a single fused image. However, for clinical experts, solely relying on fused images may be insufficient for making diagnostic decisions, as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Nishant Kumar , Ziyan Tao , Jaikirat Singh , Yang Li , Peiwen Sun , Binghui Zhao , Stefan Gumhold

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

In this paper, we introduced a novel deep learning-based reconstruction technique for low-dose CT imaging using 3 dimensional convolutions to include the sagittal information unlike the existing 2 dimensional networks which exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Doga Gunduzalp , Batuhan Cengiz , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Isa Yildirim

The lung airway tree modeling is essential to work for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, especially for X-Ray computed tomography (CT). The airway tree modeling on CT images can provide the experts with 3-dimension measurements like wall…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Hsiang-Chin Chien , Ching-Ping Wang , Jung-Chih Chen , Chia-Yen Lee

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joanna Wiekiera , Martyna Zur

Early diagnosis and analysis of lung cancer involve a precise and efficient lung nodule segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. However, the anonymous shapes, visual features, and surroundings of the nodule in the CT image pose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Samson Anosh Babu P , Chandra Sekhara Rao Annavarapu

Ureteroscopy is becoming the first surgical treatment option for the majority of urinary affections. This procedure is performed using an endoscope which provides the surgeon with the visual information necessary to navigate inside the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Jorge F. Lazo , Aldo Marzullo , Sara Moccia , Michele Catellani , Benoit Rosa , Michel de Mathelin , Elena De Momi

Image deblurring is a classic problem in low-level computer vision with the aim to recover a sharp image from a blurred input image. Advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in solving this problem, and a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaihao Zhang , Wenqi Ren , Wenhan Luo , Wei-Sheng Lai , Bjorn Stenger , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hongdong Li

LiDAR-camera fusion enhances 3D panoptic segmentation by leveraging camera images to complement sparse LiDAR scans, but it also introduces a critical failure mode. Under adverse conditions, degradation or failure of the camera sensor can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rohit Mohan , Florian Drews , Yakov Miron , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning method for the automatic detection and segmentation of lung nodules, aimed at advancing the accuracy of early-stage lung cancer diagnosis. The proposed approach leverages a unique "Channel Squeeze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Mingxiu Sui , Jiacheng Hu , Tong Zhou , Zibo Liu , Likang Wen , Junliang Du

Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

Image denoising is an essential part of many image processing and computer vision tasks due to inevitable noise corruption during image acquisition. Traditionally, many researchers have investigated image priors for the denoising, within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Recent denoising algorithms based on the "blind-spot" strategy show impressive blind image denoising performances, without utilizing any external dataset. While the methods excel in recovering highly contaminated images, we observe that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Chaewon Kim , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Laparoscopic images and videos are often affected by different types of distortion like noise, smoke, blur and nonuniform illumination. Automatic detection of these distortions, followed generally by application of appropriate image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Zohaib Amjad Khan , Azeddine Beghdadi , Mounir Kaaniche , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

Reconstructing deformable tissues from endoscopic stereo videos in robotic surgery is crucial for various clinical applications. However, existing methods relying only on implicit representations are computationally expensive and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chen Yang , Kailing Wang , Yuehao Wang , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

The field of computational imaging has witnessed a promising paradigm shift with the emergence of untrained neural networks, offering novel solutions to inverse computational imaging problems. While existing techniques have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Abeer Banerjee , Sanjay Singh

Medical ultrasound (US) is widely used to evaluate and stage vascular diseases, in particular for the preliminary screening program, due to the advantage of being radiation-free. However, automatic segmentation of small tubular structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Zhongliang Jiang , Felix Duelmer , Nassir Navab

Objective. Limited access to breast cancer diagnosis globally leads to delayed treatment. Ultrasound, an effective yet underutilized method, requires specialized training for sonographers, which hinders its widespread use. Approach. Volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Donya Khaledyan , Thomas J. Marini , Avice OConnell , Steven Meng , Jonah Kan , Galen Brennan , Yu Zhao , Timothy M. Baran , Kevin J. Parker

Segmentation of lung tissue in computed tomography (CT) images is a precursor to most pulmonary image analysis applications. Semantic segmentation methods using deep learning have exhibited top-tier performance in recent years, however…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Niloufar Delfan , Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam , Mohammadreza Modaresi , Kimia Afshari , Kasra Nezamabadi , Neda Pak , Omid Ghaemi , Mohamad Forouzanfar