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We introduce a new technique for generating retinal fundus images that have anatomically accurate vascular structures, using diffusion models. We generate artery/vein masks to create the vascular structure, which we then condition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Sojung Go , Younghoon Ji , Sang Jun Park , Soochahn Lee

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited significant effectiveness in computer vision tasks, particularly in image generation. However, their notable performance heavily relies on labelled datasets, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Keqiang Fan , Xiaohao Cai , Mahesan Niranjan

Ultrasound simulation based on ray tracing enables the synthesis of highly realistic images. It can provide an interactive environment for training sonographers as an educational tool. However, due to high computational demand, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Lin Zhang , Tiziano Portenier , Christoph Paulus , Orcun Goksel

Infrared imaging is essential for autonomous driving and robotic operations as a supportive modality due to its reliable performance in challenging environments. Despite its popularity, the limitations of infrared cameras, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingyuan Li , Zirui Wang , Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu

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

Ultrasound (US) imaging is based on the time-reversal principle, in which individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Detail features of magnetic resonance images play a cru-cial role in accurate medical diagnosis and treatment, as they capture subtle changes that pose challenges for doc-tors when performing precise judgments. However, the widely utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mengxiao Geng , Jiahao Zhu , Xiaolin Zhu , Qiqing Liu , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume provides more context information compared to a sequence of 2D scanning frames, which is desirable for various clinical applications such as ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. Nevertheless, 3D volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Hengtao Guo , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Arya Bangun , Zhuo Cao , Alessio Quercia , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Accurate volumetric characterization of lesions is essential for oncologic diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment planning. While imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography provide high-quality 3D data, 2D ultrasound (2D-US)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kian Wei Ng , Yujia Gao , Deborah Khoo , Ying Zhen Tan , Chengzheng Mao , Haojie Cheng , Andrew Makmur , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Serene Goh , Eng Tat Khoo

We present DiffBIR, a general restoration pipeline that could handle different blind image restoration tasks in a unified framework. DiffBIR decouples blind image restoration problem into two stages: 1) degradation removal: removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xinqi Lin , Jingwen He , Ziyan Chen , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Fanghua Yu , Wanli Ouyang , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Ultrasound imaging makes use of backscattering of waves during their interaction with scatterers present in biological tissues. Simulation of synthetic ultrasound images is a challenging problem on account of inability to accurately model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Francis Tom , Debdoot Sheet

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique that can indirectly infer the microstructure of tissues and provide metrics which are subject to normal variability across subjects. Potentially abnormal values or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Samuel St-Jean , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

High-quality training data are not always available in dynamic MRI. To address this, we propose a self-supervised deep learning method called deep image prior with structured sparsity (DISCUS) for reconstructing dynamic images. DISCUS is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Muhammad A. Sultan , Chong Chen , Yingmin Liu , Xuan Lei , Rizwan Ahmad

Cross-modality medical image synthesis is a critical topic and has the potential to facilitate numerous applications in the medical imaging field. Despite recent successes in deep-learning-based generative models, most current medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Lingting Zhu , Zeyue Xue , Zhenchao Jin , Xian Liu , Jingzhen He , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

Volume visualization is a method that displays three-dimensional (3D) data in two-dimensional (2D) space. Using 3D datasets instead of 2D traditional images improves the visualization of anatomical structures, and volume visualization helps…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) produces excellent soft tissue contrast, albeit it is an inherently slow imaging modality. Promising deep learning methods have recently been proposed to reconstruct accelerated MRI scans. However, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Tolga Cukur , Vishal M. Patel

Multi-modal image fusion aims to consolidate complementary information from diverse source images into a unified representation. The fused image is expected to preserve fine details and maintain high visual fidelity. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xingxin Xu , Bing Cao , DongDong Li , Qinghua Hu , Pengfei Zhu

Deep learning (DL) methods typically require large datasets to effectively learn data distributions. However, in the medical field, data is often limited in quantity, and acquiring labeled data can be costly. To mitigate this data scarcity,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Marina Domínguez , Yordanka Velikova , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Diffusion MRI is a non-invasive, in-vivo biomedical imaging method for mapping tissue microstructure. Applications include structural connectivity imaging of the human brain and detecting microstructural neural changes. However, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Amir Sadikov , Xinlei Pan , Hannah Choi , Lanya T. Cai , Pratik Mukherjee