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Obtaining pixel-level annotations in the medical domain is both expensive and time-consuming, often requiring close collaboration between clinical experts and developers. Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lin Xi , Yingliang Ma , Cheng Wang , Sandra Howell , Aldo Rinaldi , Kawal S. Rhode

Remote medical diagnosis has emerged as a critical and indispensable technique in practical medical systems, where medical data are required to be efficiently compressed and transmitted for diagnosis by either professional doctors or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Guangqi Xie , Xin Li , Xiaohan Pan , Zhibo Chen

Digital and analog semantic communications (SemCom) face inherent limitations such as data security concerns in analog SemCom, as well as leveling-off and cliff-edge effects in digital SemCom. In order to overcome these challenges, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Zhu Han , Khaled B. Letaief

Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Medical image segmentation models struggle with rare abnormalities due to scarce annotated pathological data. We propose DiffAug a novel framework that combines textguided diffusion-based generation with automatic segmentation validation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Francesco Setti

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has spurred innovative approaches to semantic communication, giving rise to a new paradigm known as generative semantic communication (GSC). The integration of flexible cross-modal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Fangli Mou , Zehui Xiong , Zide Fan , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

We introduce MedCondDiff, a diffusion-based framework for multi-organ medical image segmentation that is efficient and anatomically grounded. The model conditions the denoising process on semantic priors extracted by a Pyramid Vision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ruirui Huang , Jiacheng Li

In recent times, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have proven effective for medical image generation and denoising, and as representation learners for downstream segmentation. However, segmentation performance is limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Venkata Siddharth Dhara , Pawan Kumar

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated significant potential in 3D medical image segmentation tasks. However, their high computational cost and inability to fully capture global 3D contextual information limit their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Kangbo Ma

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, which necessitates understanding both coarse morphological and semantic structures, as well as carving fine boundaries. The morphological and semantic structures in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siyuan Song , Guyue Hu , Chenglong Li , Dengdi Sun , Zhe Jin , Jin Tang

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yijun Yang , Huazhu Fu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Lei Zhu

Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Existing segmentation models trained on a single medical imaging dataset often lack robustness when encountering unseen organs or tumors. Developing a robust model capable of identifying rare or novel tumor categories not present during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Rong Wu , Ziqi Chen , Liming Zhong , Heng Li , Hai Shu

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising approach for improving efficient transmission in the next generation of wireless networks. Inspired by the success of semantic communication in different areas, we aim to provide a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zheyuan Zhang , Lanhong Yao , Bin Wang , Debesh Jha , Gorkem Durak , Elif Keles , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Ulas Bagci

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang