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Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Computed Tomography (CT) is a vital diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet the health risks associated with ionizing radiation cannot be overlooked. Low-dose CT (LDCT) helps mitigate radiation exposure but simultaneously leads to reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guoliang Gong , Man Yu

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful framework for realistic image generation by learning to reverse a corruption process that progressively adds Gaussian noise. However, because noise is injected in the latent domain, its impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Purpose/Objective: Brain tumors result in 20 years of lost life on average. Standard therapies induce complex structural changes in the brain that are monitored through MRI. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) enable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Selena Huisman , Nordin Belkacemi , Vera Keil , Joost Verhoeff , Szabolcs David

This paper strives to generate a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image from a magnetic resonance (MR) image. The synthetic CT image is valuable for radiotherapy planning when only an MR image is available. Recent approaches have made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Guoyan Zheng , Cees Snoek

Intracardiac flow patterns are shaped by the coupled motion of the cardiac chambers and heart valves and provide important information about cardiac function. However, clinical flow imaging remains limited by exam times, noise, resolution,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Fanwei Kong , Aaron Brown , Michael Loecher , Perry S. Choi , Lei Shi , Michael Ma , Daniel B. Ennis , Alison Marsden

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is routinely collected during image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide updated patient anatomy information for cancer treatments. However, CBCT images often suffer from streaking artifacts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiarui Zhu , Werxing Chen , Hongfei Sun , Shaohua Zhi , Jing Qin , Jing Cai , Ge Ren

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Hisaichi Shibata , Shouhei Hanaoka , Yukihiro Nomura , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Naoto Hayashi , Osamu Abe

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable quality in multi-modal MRI synthesis, but their computational cost (hundreds of sampling steps and separate models per modality) limits clinical deployment. We observe that this inefficiency stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yalcin Tur , Mihajlo Stojkovic , Ulas Bagci

4D-flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging imaging technique where spatiotemporal 3D blood velocity can be captured with full volumetric coverage in a single non-invasive examination. This enables qualitative and quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Edward Ferdian , Avan Suinesiaputra , David Dubowitz , Debbie Zhao , Alan Wang , Brett Cowan , Alistair Young

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

The deployment of artificial intelligence in medical imaging is hindered by high computational complexity and resource-intensive processing of volumetric data. Although chest computed tomography (CT) volumes offer richer diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shadid Yousuf , S. M. Mahbubur Rahman , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

We propose a cascaded 3D diffusion model framework to synthesize high-fidelity 3D PET/CT volumes directly from demographic variables, addressing the growing need for realistic digital twins in oncologic imaging, virtual trials, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Siyeop Yoon , Sifan Song , Pengfei Jin , Matthew Tivnan , Yujin Oh , Sekeun Kim , Dufan Wu , Xiang Li , Quanzheng Li

Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to diffusion models, providing a continuous-time formulation for generative modeling and representation learning. Yet, we show that this framework suffers from a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan

Medical imaging analysis faces challenges such as data scarcity, high annotation costs, and privacy concerns. This paper introduces the Medical AI for Synthetic Imaging (MAISI), an innovative approach using the diffusion model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Pengfei Guo , Can Zhao , Dong Yang , Ziyue Xu , Vishwesh Nath , Yucheng Tang , Benjamin Simon , Mason Belue , Stephanie Harmon , Baris Turkbey , Daguang Xu

Standard flow matching scales well but typically relies on an unstructured source distribution, limiting its ability to learn interpretable latent structure. Latent-variable models, by contrast, capture structure but often sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xavier Sumba , Carles Balsells-Rodas , Yingzhen Li

Purpose: This study assessed the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic CT images generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for focal brain radiation therapy, using a deep learning approach. Material and Methods: We conducted a study…

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a prominent 3D representation for high-fidelity and real-time rendering. Prior work has coupled physics simulation with Gaussians, but predominantly targets soft, deformable materials, leaving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Bei Huang , Yixin Chen , Ruijie Lu , Gang Zeng , Hongbin Zha , Yuru Pei , Siyuan Huang

While generative modeling has achieved remarkable success on tasks like natural language-conditioned image generation, enabling model adaptation from example data points remains a relatively underexplored and challenging problem. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tyler Ingebrand , Ruihan Zhao , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le