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In recent years, convolutional neural networks have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of medical image segmentation tasks. However, when a trained segmentation model is deployed into the real clinical world, the model may not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shuo Wang , Giacomo Tarroni , Chen Qin , Yuanhan Mo , Chengliang Dai , Chen Chen , Ben Glocker , Yike Guo , Daniel Rueckert , Wenjia Bai

Machine learning techniques used in computer-aided medical image analysis usually suffer from the domain shift problem caused by different distributions between source/reference data and target data. As a promising solution, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Hao Guan , Mingxia Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in producing high-quality images in medical image translation to aid disease diagnosis, localization, and treatment. Nevertheless, current diffusion models have limited success in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiaoxue Qian , You Zhang

MRI and CT are most widely used medical imaging modalities. It is often necessary to acquire multi-modality images for diagnosis and treatment such as radiotherapy planning. However, multi-modality imaging is not only costly but also…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

For medical image analysis, segmentation models trained on one or several domains lack generalization ability to unseen domains due to discrepancies between different data acquisition policies. We argue that the degeneration in segmentation…

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Reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is important to mitigate radiation-induced risks. One option is to employ a well-trained model to compensate for incomplete information and map sparse-view measurements to the CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Xiaoyue Li , Kai Shang , Gaoang Wang , Mark D. Butala

In medical imaging, generative models are increasingly relied upon for two distinct but equally critical tasks: reconstruction, where the goal is to restore medical imaging (usually inverse problems like inpainting or superresolution), and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Niklas Bubeck , Yundi Zhang , Suprosanna Shit , Daniel Rueckert , Jiazhen Pan

Diffusion Models (DMs) have disrupted the image Super-Resolution (SR) field and further closed the gap between image quality and human perceptual preferences. They are easy to train and can produce very high-quality samples that exceed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Brian B. Moser , Arundhati S. Shanbhag , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Sebastian Palacio , Andreas Dengel

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

AI models present a wide range of applications in the field of medicine. However, achieving optimal performance requires access to extensive healthcare data, which is often not readily available. Furthermore, the imperative to preserve…

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative models in medical imaging. However, it remains a major challenge to combine these data-driven models with domain knowledge to guide brain imaging problems. In neuroimaging,…

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Synthetic medical image generation has evolved as a key technique for neural network training and validation. A core challenge, however, remains in the domain gap between simulations and real data. While deep learning-based domain transfer…

Automatic and accurate segmentation of the ventricles and myocardium from multi-sequence cardiac MRI (CMR) is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment management for patients suffering from myocardial infarction (MI). However, due to the…

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Despite significant progress in generative modelling, existing diffusion models often struggle to produce anatomically precise female pelvic images, limiting their application in gynaecological imaging, where data scarcity and patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Johanna P. Müller , Anika Knupfer , Pedro Blöss , Edoardo Berardi Vittur , Bernhard Kainz , Jana Hutter

Diffusion-based image generators are promising priors for ill-posed inverse problems like sparse-view X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). As most studies consider synthetic data, it is not clear whether training data mismatch (``domain shift'')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nelas J. Thomsen , Xinyuan Wang , Felix Lucka , Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen

Generative foundation models contain broad visual knowledge and can produce diverse image variations, making them particularly promising for advancing domain generalization tasks. They can be used for training data augmentation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Arpit Jadon , Joshua Niemeijer , Yuki M. Asano

Domain Generalization techniques aim to enhance model robustness by simulating novel data distributions during training, typically through various augmentation or stylization strategies. However, these methods frequently suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mehrdad Noori , Milad Cheraghalikhani , Ali Bahri , Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Hakim , David Osowiechi , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Conditional medical image generation plays an important role in many clinically relevant imaging tasks. However, existing methods still face a fundamental challenge in balancing inference efficiency, patient-specific fidelity, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zirong Li , Siyuan Mei , Weiwen Wu , Andreas Maier , Lina Gölz , Yan Xia

Generative image models have achieved remarkable progress in both natural and medical imaging. In the medical context, these techniques offer a potential solution to data scarcity-especially for low-prevalence anomalies that impair the…

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Foundation models in digital pathology use massive datasets to learn useful compact feature representations of complex histology images. However, there is limited transparency into what drives the correlation between dataset size and…