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Image registration is useful for quantifying morphological changes in longitudinal MR images from prostate cancer patients. This paper describes a development in improving the learning-based registration algorithms, for this challenging…

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Image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. Deformations are often closely related to the morphological characteristics of tissues, making accurate feature extraction crucial. Recent weakly supervised methods improve…

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Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse domains but remain difficult to deploy in resource-constrained environments due to their size. Low-rank compression is a common remedy, typically minimizing weight…

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The goal of this work is to propose a robust, fast, and fully automatic method for personalized cranial defect reconstruction and implant modeling. We propose a two-step deep learning-based method using a modified U-Net architecture to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Marek Wodzinski , Mateusz Daniol , Miroslaw Socha , Daria Hemmerling , Maciej Stanuch , Andrzej Skalski

Nonlinear registration of 2D histological sections with corresponding slices of MRI data is a critical step of 3D histology reconstruction. This task is difficult due to the large differences in image contrast and resolution, as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Marc Modat , Loic Peter , Allison Stevens , Roberto Annunziata , Tom Vercauteren , Ed Lein , Bruce Fischl , Sebastien Ourselin

Radiation therapy (RT) requires precise dose delivery over multiple fractions, with CT fundamental for treatment planning due to its electron density information. Repeated CT acquisitions impose radiation exposure and logistical burdens,…

We introduce IMPACT, a synchronized five-view RGB-D dataset for deployment-oriented industrial procedural understanding, built around real assembly and disassembly of a commercial angle grinder with professional-grade tools. To our…

Computerized registration between maxillofacial cone-beam computed tomography (CT) images and a scanned dental model is an essential prerequisite in surgical planning for dental implants or orthognathic surgery. We propose a novel method…

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Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

3-D image registration, which involves aligning two or more images, is a critical step in a variety of medical applications from diagnosis to therapy. Image registration is commonly performed by optimizing an image matching metric as a cost…

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The synthesis of computed tomography (CT) from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays a critical role in clinical treatment planning by enabling accurate anatomical representation in adaptive radiotherapy. In this…

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Generating synthetic CT (sCT) from MRI or CBCT plays a crucial role in enabling MRI-only and CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy, improving treatment precision while reducing patient radiation exposure. To address this task, we adopt a fully…

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The generation of Synthetic Computed Tomography (sCT) images has become a pivotal methodology in modern clinical practice, particularly in the context of Radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning. The use of sCT enables the calculation of doses,…

Medical imaging is essential in modern radiotherapy, supporting diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring. Synthetic imaging, particularly synthetic computed tomography (sCT), is gaining traction in radiotherapy. The SynthRAD2025…

Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) shows great potential for automating implant reconstruction in brachytherapy. One of the challenges of this technology is that it does not intrinsically share the same reference frame as the patient's medical…

Brain segmentation from neonatal MRI images is a very challenging task due to large changes in the shape of cerebral structures and variations in signal intensities reflecting the gestational process. In this context, there is a clear need…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-12 R Valabregue , F Girka , A Pron , F Rousseau , G Auzias

Intensity-based image registration approaches rely on similarity measures to guide the search for geometric correspondences with high affinity between images. The properties of the used measure are vital for the robustness and accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Johan Öfverstedt , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Deformable registration of magnetic resonance images between patients with brain tumors and healthy subjects has been an important tool to specify tumor geometry through location alignment and facilitate pathological analysis. Since tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Chao Yang , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Georges ElFakhri , Jonghye Woo

Registration is widely used in image-guided therapy and image-guided surgery to estimate spatial correspondences between organs of interest between planning and treatment images. However, while high-quality computed tomography (CT) images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Lin Tian , Connor Puett , Peirong Liu , Zhengyang Shen , Stephen R. Aylward , Yueh Z. Lee , Marc Niethammer

Transformer models have demonstrated the capability to produce highly accurate segmentation of organs and tumors. However, model training requires high-quality curated datasets to ensure robust generalization to unseen datasets. Hence, we…