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Developing new methods for the automated analysis of clinical fetal and neonatal MRI data is limited by the scarcity of annotated pathological datasets and privacy concerns that often restrict data sharing, hindering the effectiveness of…

Diffusion models have enabled remarkably high-quality medical image generation, yet it is challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated images. To this end, we propose a diffusion model-based method that supports…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Nicholas Konz , Yuwen Chen , Haoyu Dong , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, including cardiac MR, is prone to domain shift due to variations in imaging devices and acquisition protocols. This challenge limits the deployment of trained AI models in real-world scenarios, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xin Ci Wong , Duygu Sarikaya , Kieran Zucker , Marc De Kamps , Nishant Ravikumar

Generative models are used as an alternative data augmentation technique to alleviate the data scarcity problem faced in the medical imaging field. Diffusion models have gathered special attention due to their innovative generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Ricardo Montoya-del-Angel , Karla Sam-Millan , Joan C Vilanova , Robert Martí

In order to achieve good performance and generalisability, medical image segmentation models should be trained on sizeable datasets with sufficient variability. Due to ethics and governance restrictions, and the costs associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Virginia Fernandez , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Pedro Borges , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Mark S Graham , Tom Vercauteren , M Jorge Cardoso

Collecting and annotating images with pixel-wise labels is time-consuming and laborious. In contrast, synthetic data can be freely available using a generative model (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion). In this paper, we show that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou , Hong Zhou , Chunhua Shen

Data augmentation is crucial for pixel-wise annotation tasks like semantic segmentation, where labeling requires significant effort and intensive labor. Traditional methods, involving simple transformations such as rotations and flips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Quang-Huy Che , Duc-Tri Le , Bich-Nga Pham , Duc-Khai Lam , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

One of the main challenges in current research on segmentation in cardiac ultrasound is the lack of large and varied labeled datasets and the differences in annotation conventions between datasets. This makes it difficult to design robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Gilles Van De Vyver , Aksel Try Lenz , Erik Smistad , Sindre Hellum Olaisen , Bjørnar Grenne , Espen Holte , Håavard Dalen , Lasse Løvstakken

This paper introduces a methodology for generating synthetic annotated data to address data scarcity in semantic segmentation tasks within the precision agriculture domain. Utilizing Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Andrew Heschl , Mauricio Murillo , Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental but challenging task in the quantitative analysis of histopathology images. Although fully-supervised deep learning-based methods have made significant progress, a large number of labeled images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Xinyi Yu , Guanbin Li , Wei Lou , Siqi Liu , Xiang Wan , Yan Chen , Haofeng Li

Collective insights from a group of experts have always proven to outperform an individual's best diagnostic for clinical tasks. For the task of medical image segmentation, existing research on AI-based alternatives focuses more on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Aimon Rahman , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

In computer-assisted surgery, automatically recognizing anatomical organs is crucial for understanding the surgical scene and providing intraoperative assistance. While machine learning models can identify such structures, their deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Danush Kumar Venkatesh , Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Fiona Kolbinger , Stefanie Speidel

Supervised machine learning algorithms play a crucial role in optical quality control within industrial production. These approaches require representative datasets for effective model training. However, while non-defective components are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Dennis Sprute , Hanna Senke , Holger Flatt

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

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

Federated learning enables collaborative training of deep learning models across institutions without sharing sensitive patient data. However, its performance is often limited by small datasets and non-independent, identically distributed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Hongyi Pan , Ziliang Hong , Gorkem Durak , Ziyue Xu , Ulas Bagci

Medical image analysis plays a pivotal role in the early diagnosis of diseases such as skin lesions. However, the scarcity of data and the class imbalance significantly hinder the performance of deep learning models. We propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Zhaobin Xu

The scarcity and complexity of voxel-level annotations in 3D medical imaging present significant challenges, particularly due to the domain gap between labeled datasets from well-resourced centers and unlabeled datasets from less-resourced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Haifan Gong , Yitao Wang , Yihan Wang , Jiashun Xiao , Xiang Wan , Haofeng Li

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task where classification is performed at a pixel level. Due to this, the process of labeling images for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and expensive. To mitigate this cost there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Javier Montalvo , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Juan C. SanMiguel