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Magnetic resonance (MR) protocols rely on several sequences to assess pathology and organ status properly. Despite advances in image analysis, we tend to treat each sequence, here termed modality, in isolation. Taking advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Agisilaos Chartsias , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Chengjia Wang , Scott Semple , David E. Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for providing complementary information about brain anatomy and pathology, leading to more accurate diagnoses. However, obtaining high-quality multi-modal MRI in a clinical setting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Minjoo Lim , Bogyeong Kang , Tae-Eui Kam

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

We present an approach for jointly matching and segmenting object instances of the same category within a collection of images. In contrast to existing algorithms that tackle the tasks of semantic matching and object co-segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yun-Chun Chen , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jia-Bin Huang

A data augmentation module is utilized in contrastive learning to transform the given data example into two views, which is considered essential and irreplaceable. However, the predetermined composition of multiple data augmentations brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Junbo Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

The task of medical image segmentation presents unique challenges, necessitating both localized and holistic semantic understanding to accurately delineate areas of interest, such as critical tissues or aberrant features. This complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Pranav Singh , Luoyao Chen , Mei Chen , Jinqian Pan , Raviteja Chukkapalli , Shravan Chaudhari , Jacopo Cirrone

In this work, we leverage estimated depth to boost self-supervised contrastive learning for segmentation of urban scenes, where unlabeled videos are readily available for training self-supervised depth estimation. We argue that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Liang Zeng , Attila Lengyel , Nergis Tömen , Jan van Gemert

We present the first fully two-dimensional attenuation imaging technique developed for pulse-echo ultrasound systems. Unlike state-of-the-art techniques, which use line-by-line acquisitions, our method uses steered emissions to constrain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Naiara Korta Martiartu , Parisa Salemi Yolgunlu , Martin Frenz , Michael Jaeger

Deep learning has shown remarkable progress in medical image semantic segmentation, yet its success heavily depends on large-scale expert annotations and consistent data distributions. In practice, annotations are scarce, and images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ba-Thinh Lam , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Quang-Khai Bui-Tran , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Phat K. Huynh , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

Medical imaging tasks often involve multiple contrasts, such as T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. These contrasts capture information associated with the same underlying anatomy and thus exhibit similarities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Pingfan Song , Lior Weizman , Joao F. C. Mota , Yonina C. Eldar , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Self-supervised approaches for electroencephalography (EEG) representation learning face three specific challenges inherent to EEG data: (1) The low signal-to-noise ratio which challenges the quality of the representation learned, (2) The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Navid Mohammadi Foumani , Geoffrey Mackellar , Soheila Ghane , Saad Irtza , Nam Nguyen , Mahsa Salehi

Masked autoencoder (MAE) is a promising self-supervised pre-training technique that can improve the representation learning of a neural network without human intervention. However, applying MAE directly to volumetric medical images poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jia-Xin Zhuang , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) methods allow reducing the subjectivity of clinical MRI by providing numerical values on which diagnostic assessment or predictions of tissue properties can be based. However, qMRI measurements typically take more…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Matti Hanhela , Antti Paajanen , Mikko J. Nissi , Ville Kolehmainen

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women. Besides the primary B-mode ultrasound screening, sonographers have explored the inclusion of Doppler, strain and shear-wave elasticity imaging to advance the diagnosis. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Wang Jian , Miao Juzheng , Yang Xin , Li Rui , Zhou Guangquan , Huang Yuhao , Lin Zehui , Xue Wufeng , Jia Xiaohong , Zhou Jianqiao , Huang Ruobing , Ni Dong

Local alignment between medical images and text is essential for accurate diagnosis, though it remains challenging due to the absence of natural local pairings and the limitations of rigid region recognition methods. Traditional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Huimin Yan , Xian Yang , Liang Bai , Jiye Liang

The contextual information is critical for various computer vision tasks, previous works commonly design plug-and-play modules and structural losses to effectively extract and aggregate the global context. These methods utilize fine-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jing Wang , Jiangyun Li , Wei Li , Lingfei Xuan , Tianxiang Zhang , Wenxuan Wang

Semantic overlap among land-cover categories, highly imbalanced label distributions, and complex inter-class co-occurrence patterns constitute significant challenges for multi-label remote-sensing image retrieval. In this article,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amna Amir , Erchan Aptoula

Current semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods mainly focus on designing pixel-level consistency and contrastive regularization. However, pixel-level regularization is sensitive to noise from pixels with incorrect predictions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jianrong Zhang , Tianyi Wu , Chuanghao Ding , Hongwei Zhao , Guodong Guo

Traditional supervised medical image segmentation models require large amounts of labeled data for training; however, obtaining such large-scale labeled datasets in the real world is extremely challenging. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Reem Kateb , Ahmad Chaddad