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Low-dose computed tomography (CT) denoising is crucial for reduced radiation exposure while ensuring diagnostically acceptable image quality. Despite significant advancements driven by deep learning (DL) in recent years, existing DL-based…

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Fast dose calculation is critical for online and real time adaptive therapy workflows. While modern physics-based dose algorithms must compromise accuracy to achieve low computation times, deep learning models can potentially perform dose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Oscar Pastor-Serrano , Peng Dong , Charles Huang , Lei Xing , Zoltán Perkó

Purpose: We propose a general framework for quantifying predictive uncertainties of dose-related quantities and leveraging this information in a dose mimicking problem in the context of automated radiation therapy treatment planning.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Tianfang Zhang , Rasmus Bokrantz , Jimmy Olsson

Breast cancer is a significant public health concern and early detection is critical for triaging high risk patients. Sequential screening mammograms can provide important spatiotemporal information about changes in breast tissue over time.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Hong Hui Yeoh , Andrea Liew , Raphaël Phan , Fredrik Strand , Kartini Rahmat , Tuong Linh Nguyen , John L. Hopper , Maxine Tan

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, and early detection is crucial for reducing its mortality rate and improving quality of life. Dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) scanners offer better image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Wenjun Xia , Hsin Wu Tseng , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Srinivasan Vedantham , Ge Wang

We present AnchorDP3, a diffusion policy framework for dual-arm robotic manipulation that achieves state-of-the-art performance in highly randomized environments. AnchorDP3 integrates three key innovations: (1) Simulator-Supervised Semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziyan Zhao , Ke Fan , He-Yang Xu , Ning Qiao , Bo Peng , Wenlong Gao , Dongjiang Li , Hui Shen

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) suffer from inefficient inference due to their slow sampling and high memory consumption, which limits their applicability to various medical imaging applications. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

There is wide interest in studying how the distribution of a continuous response changes with a predictor. We are motivated by environmental applications in which the predictor is the dose of an exposure and the response is a health…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-10 Antonio Canale , Daniele Durante , David Dunson

With the advancement of treatment modalities in radiation therapy for cancer patients, outcomes have improved, but at the cost of increased treatment plan complexity and planning time. The accurate prediction of dose distributions would…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Dan Nguyen , Troy Long , Xun Jia , Weiguo Lu , Xuejun Gu , Zohaib Iqbal , Steve Jiang

Evidence is accumulating in favour of using stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) to treat multiple cancer lesions in the lung. Multi-lesion lung SABR plans are complex and require significant resources to create. In this work, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Edward Wang , Ryan Au , Pencilla Lang , Sarah A. Mattonen

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

In breast ultrasound images, precise lesion segmentation is essential for early diagnosis; however, low contrast, speckle noise, and unclear boundaries make this difficult. Even though deep learning models have demonstrated potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Prateek Singh , Moumita Dholey , P. K. Vinod

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Huidong Xie , Weijie Gan , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Liang Guo , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Ge Wang , Chi Liu

Objective: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a low-dose imaging alternative to conventional CT, but suffers from noise, scatter, and artifacts that degrade image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) aims to translate CBCT to high-quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Alessandro Perelli

Accurate brain tumor diagnosis relies on the assessment of multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequences. However, in clinical practice, the acquisition of certain sequences may be affected by factors like motion artifacts or contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Moinak Bhattacharya , Saumya Gupta , Annie Singh , Chao Chen , Gagandeep Singh , Prateek Prasanna

Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

Predicting drug-target affinity is fundamental to virtual screening and lead optimization. However, existing deep models often suffer from representation collapse in stringent cold-start regimes, where the scarcity of labels and domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yining Qian , Pengjie Wang , Yixiao Li , An-Yang Lu , Cheng Tan , Shuang Li , Lijun Liu

Dose-finding clinical trials in oncology aim to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of a new drug, generally defined by the proportion of patients with short-term dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs). Model-based approaches for such phase…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-08 Moreno Ursino , Lucie Biard , Sylvie Chevret

Current methods based on deep learning for self-supervised low-dose CT (LDCT) reconstruction, while reducing the dependence on paired data, face the problem of significantly decreased generalization when training with single-dose data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Guoquan Wei , Liu Shi , Zekun Zhou , Mohan Li , Cunfeng Wei , Wenzhe Shan , Qiegen Liu

We present a problem-suited numerical method for a particularly challenging cancer invasion model. This model is a multiscale haptotaxis advection-reaction-diffusion system that describes the macroscopic dynamics of two types of cancer…

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