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Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely utilized imaging modality in clinical settings. Using densely acquired rotational X-ray arrays, CT can capture 3D spatial features. However, it is confronted with challenged such as significant time…

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Diffusion-based sparse-view CT (SVCT) imaging has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to its more stable generative capability. However, recovering reliable image content and visually consistent textures is still a…

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Computed tomography (CT) is important in clinical diagnosis, but acquiring high-resolution (HR) CT is constrained by radiation exposure risks. While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown promise for reconstructing HR…

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Denoising low-dose computed tomography (CT) images is a critical task in medical image computing. Supervised deep learning-based approaches have made significant advancements in this area in recent years. However, these methods typically…

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Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

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The invention of modern displays has enhanced the viewer experience for any kind of content: ranging from sports to movies in 8K high-definition resolution. However, older content developed for CRT or early Plasma screen TVs has become…

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Computed tomography (CT) is one of the modalities for effective lung cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The features extracted from CT images are now used to quantify spatial and temporal variations in tumors. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Michael A. Brooks , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

Stable Diffusion is a popular Transformer-based model for image generation from text; it applies an image information creator to the input text and the visual knowledge is added in a step-by-step fashion to create an image that corresponds…

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Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

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Developing reliable and generalizable deep learning systems for medical imaging faces significant obstacles due to spurious correlations, data imbalances, and limited text annotations in datasets. Addressing these challenges requires…

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The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

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Low-dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is an important task in medical image analysis. Recent years have seen many deep learning based methods, proved to be effective in this area. However, these methods mostly follow a…

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Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

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By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

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Computational tomography (CT) provides high-resolution medical imaging, but it can expose patients to high radiation. X-ray scanners have low radiation exposure, but their resolutions are low. This paper proposes a new conditional diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Yun Su Jeong , Hye Bin Yoo , Il Yong Chun

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

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

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Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

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