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Medical image classification is one of the most critical problems in the image recognition area. One of the major challenges in this field is the scarcity of labelled training data. Additionally, there is often class imbalance in datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Khushboo Mehra , Hassan Soliman , Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Biomedical datasets are often constrained by stringent privacy requirements and frequently suffer from severe class imbalance. These two aspects hinder the development of accurate machine learning models. While generative AI offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jan Carreras Boada , Rao Muhammad Umer , Carsten Marr

Synthetic data generation in histopathology faces unique challenges: preserving tissue heterogeneity, capturing subtle morphological features, and scaling to unannotated datasets. We present a latent diffusion model that generates realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Saghir Alfasly , Wataru Uegami , MD Enamul Hoq , Ghazal Alabtah , H. R. Tizhoosh

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using generative models, specifically Progressive Growing GANs (PG-GANs) and Stable Diffusion fine-tuning, to generate synthetic chest X-ray images for medical diagnosis purposes. Due to ethical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Muhammad Danyal Malik , Danish Humair

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Despite recent advances in deep generative modeling, skin lesion classification systems remain constrained by the limited availability of large, diverse, and well-annotated clinical datasets, resulting in class imbalance between benign and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Koliousis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Janet Wang , Yunbei Zhang , Zhengming Ding , Jihun Hamm

Generating high-quality synthetic data is crucial for addressing challenges in medical imaging, such as domain adaptation, data scarcity, and privacy concerns. Existing image quality metrics often rely on reference images, are tailored for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Karl Van Eeden Risager , Torkan Gholamalizadeh , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Class imbalance is a persistent challenge in visual recognition, particularly in safety-critical domains where collecting positive examples is expensive and rare events are inherently underrepresented. We propose a lightweight synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniil Dushenev , Nazariy Karpov , Daniil Zinovjev , Alexander Gorin , Konstantin Kulikov

Multi-modal foundation models are typically trained on millions of pairs of natural images and text captions, frequently obtained through web-crawling approaches. Although such models depict excellent generative capabilities, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Pierre Chambon , Christian Bluethgen , Curtis P. Langlotz , Akshay Chaudhari

Deep learning for histopathology has been successfully used for disease classification, image segmentation and more. However, combining image and text modalities using current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods has been a challenge due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Saurav Sengupta , Donald E. Brown

The persistent challenge of medical image synthesis posed by the scarcity of annotated data and the need to synthesize `missing modalities' for multi-modal analysis, underscored the imperative development of effective synthesis methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yuchen Mao , Hongwei Li , Wei Pang , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Guang Yang , Chengjia Wang

Data scarcity and privacy concerns limit the availability of high-quality medical images for public use, which can be mitigated through medical image synthesis. However, current medical image synthesis methods often struggle to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Wenting Chen , Pengyu Wang , Hui Ren , Lichao Sun , Quanzheng Li , Yixuan Yuan , Xiang Li

In oral cancer diagnostics, the limited availability of annotated datasets frequently constrains the performance of diagnostic models, particularly due to the variability and insufficiency of training data. To address these challenges, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yong Oh Lee , JeeEun Kim , Jung Woo Lee

Collecting and annotating medical images is a time-consuming and resource-intensive task. However, generating synthetic data through models such as Diffusion offers a cost-effective alternative. This paper introduces a new method for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruochen Pi , Lianlei Shan

Recent advances in computer vision have shown promising results in image generation. Diffusion probabilistic models in particular have generated realistic images from textual input, as demonstrated by DALL-E 2, Imagen and Stable Diffusion.…

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading worldwide cause of cancer-related mortality, and the role of prompt precise detection is of paramount interest in improving patient outcomes. Conventional diagnostic methods such as colonoscopy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ovi Sarkar , Md Shafiuzzaman , Md. Faysal Ahamed , Golam Mahmud , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

Histologic examination plays a crucial role in oncology research and diagnostics. The adoption of digital scanning of whole slide images (WSI) has created an opportunity to leverage deep learning-based image classification methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Md Zahangir Alom , Quynh T. Tran , Brent A. Orr

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis, especially for fetal health assessment. However, the availability of high-quality annotated ultrasound images is limited, which restricts the training of machine learning models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yueying Tian , Elif Ucurum , Xudong Han , Rupert Young , Chris Chatwin , Philip Birch