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Generative models are becoming popular for the synthesis of medical images. Recently, neural diffusion models have demonstrated the potential to generate photo-realistic images of objects. However, their potential to generate medical images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hazrat Ali , Shafaq Murad , Zubair Shah

In many clinical settings, the use of both Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MRI) is necessary to pursue a thorough understanding of the patient's anatomy and to plan a suitable therapeutical strategy; this is often the case…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Leonardo Crespi , Samuele Camnasio , Damiano Dei , Nicola Lambri , Pietro Mancosu , Marta Scorsetti , Daniele Loiacono

Recently, the cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) has been widely used for synthesis of multi-domain medical images. The domain-specific nonlinear deformations captured by CycleGAN make the synthesized images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chengjia Wang , Gillian Macnaught , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Tom MacGillivray , David Newby

Counterfactual image generation presents significant challenges, including preserving identity, maintaining perceptual quality, and ensuring faithfulness to an underlying causal model. While existing auto-encoding frameworks admit semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rajat Rasal , Avinash Kori , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Ben Glocker

Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Janet Wang , Yunbei Zhang , Zhengming Ding , Jihun Hamm

Image synthesis has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion-based generative models like Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and text-to-image diffusion models. Despite their efficacy, there is a dearth of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ruipeng Ma , Jinhao Duan , Fei Kong , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

While deep neural networks (NN) significantly advance image compressed sensing (CS) by improving reconstruction quality, the necessity of training current CS NNs from scratch constrains their effectiveness and hampers rapid deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Chen Zhao , Jiwen Yu , Shijie Zhao , Jie Chen , Jian Zhang

Multi-modal foundation models are typically trained on millions of pairs of natural images and text captions, frequently obtained through web-crawling approaches. Although such models depict excellent generative capabilities, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Pierre Chambon , Christian Bluethgen , Curtis P. Langlotz , Akshay Chaudhari

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

The perceptual-based grouping process produces a hierarchical and compositional image representation that helps both human and machine vision systems recognize heterogeneous visual concepts. Examples can be found in the classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Zhiheng Li , Wenxuan Bao , Jiayang Zheng , Chenliang Xu

Despite the notable accomplishments of deep object detection models, a major challenge that persists is the requirement for extensive amounts of training data. The process of procuring such real-world data is a laborious undertaking, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Roy Voetman , Maya Aghaei , Klaas Dijkstra

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

In radiation therapy (RT), the reliance on pre-treatment computed tomography (CT) images encounter challenges due to anatomical changes, necessitating adaptive planning. Daily cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging, pivotal for therapy adjustment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Joonil Hwang , Sangjoon Park , NaHyeon Park , Seungryong Cho , Jin Sung Kim

The conditional diffusion model (CDM) enhances the standard diffusion model by providing more control, improving the quality and relevance of the outputs, and making the model adaptable to a wider range of complex tasks. However, inaccurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Weifeng Xu , Xiang Zhu , Xiaoyong Li

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

The field of generative models has recently witnessed significant progress, with diffusion models showing remarkable performance in image generation. In light of this success, there is a growing interest in exploring the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ariel Lapid , Idan Achituve , Lior Bracha , Ethan Fetaya

Synthetic generation of three-dimensional cell models from histopathological images aims to enhance understanding of cell mutation, and progression of cancer, necessary for clinical assessment and optimal treatment. Classical reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Yoav Alon , Xiang Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Creative image generation has emerged as a compelling area of research, driven by the need to produce novel and high-quality images that expand the boundaries of imagination. In this work, we propose a novel framework for creative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

Image-based dietary assessment serves as an efficient and accurate solution for recording and analyzing nutrition intake using eating occasion images as input. Deep learning-based techniques are commonly used to perform image analysis such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yue Han , Jiangpeng He , Mridul Gupta , Edward J. Delp , Fengqing Zhu

Recent deep generative models (DGMs) such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown their impressive ability in generating high-fidelity photorealistic images. Although looking appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ruyu Wang , Sabrina Schmedding , Marco F. Huber