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Medical image synthesis generates additional imaging modalities that are costly, invasive or harmful to acquire, which helps to facilitate the clinical workflow. When training pairs are substantially misaligned (e.g., lung MRI-CT pairs with…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is fundamental to precision medicine, yet robust delineation remains challenging under heterogeneous appearances, ambiguous boundaries, and large anatomical variability. Similar intensity and texture…

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Recent advancements in ophthalmology foundation models such as RetFound have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities but require massive datasets for effective pre-training, creating significant barriers for development and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Qingshan Hou , Meng Wang , Peng Cao , Zou Ke , Xiaoli Liu , Huazhu Fu , Osmar R. Zaiane

Synthetic PET images are valuable for quantitative imaging workflow development, scalable virtual imaging trials, and deep learning model training, but conventional physics-based simulation approaches are computationally intensive, limited…

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Generative Foundation Models (GFMs) have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality synthetic data for images and text. However, their application to tabular data presents significant challenges due to the heterogeneous nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xiaofeng Lin , Chenheng Xu , Matthew Yang , Guang Cheng

Denoising diffusion models have found applications in image segmentation by generating segmented masks conditioned on images. Existing studies predominantly focus on adjusting model architecture or improving inference, such as test-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Yunguan Fu , Yiwen Li , Shaheer U Saeed , Matthew J Clarkson , Yipeng Hu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) suffer from inefficient inference due to their slow sampling and high memory consumption, which limits their applicability to various medical imaging applications. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Toan Nguyen Hai , Ba Luong Son , Long Tran Quoc

Synthetic cardiac MRI (CMRI) generation has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the scarcity of annotated medical imaging data. Recent advances in GANs, VAEs, diffusion probabilistic models, and flow-matching techniques aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ishan Kumarasinghe , Dasuni Kawya , Madhura Edirisooriya , Isuri Devindi , Isuru Nawinne , Vajira Thambawita

Analyzing medical data to find abnormalities is a time-consuming and costly task, particularly for rare abnormalities, requiring tremendous efforts from medical experts. Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for the automatic…

Understanding the intensity characteristics of brain lesions is key for defining image-based biomarkers in neurological studies and for predicting disease burden and outcome. In this work, we present a novel foreground-based generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Berke Doga Basaran , Mengyun Qiao , Paul M. Matthews , Wenjia Bai

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise,…

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In recent years, semantic segmentation has become a pivotal tool in processing and interpreting satellite imagery. Yet, a prevalent limitation of supervised learning techniques remains the need for extensive manual annotations by experts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aysim Toker , Marvin Eisenberger , Daniel Cremers , Laura Leal-Taixé

Pseudo healthy synthesis, i.e. the creation of a subject-specific `healthy' image from a pathological one, could be helpful in tasks such as anomaly detection, understanding changes induced by pathology and disease or even as data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Tian Xia , Agisilaos Chartsias , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Synthesizing medical images while preserving their structural information is crucial in medical research. In such scenarios, the preservation of anatomical content becomes especially important. Although recent advances have been made by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Ziqi Yu , Botao Zhao , Shengjie Zhang , Xiang Chen , Jianfeng Feng , Tingying Peng , Xiao-Yong Zhang

Acquiring and annotating surgical data is often resource-intensive, ethical constraining, and requiring significant expert involvement. While generative AI models like text-to-image can alleviate data scarcity, incorporating spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Aditya Bhat , Rupak Bose , Chinedu Innocent Nwoye , Nicolas Padoy

Remarkable progress has been made by data-driven machine-learning methods in the analysis of MRI scans. However, most existing MRI analysis approaches are crafted for specific MR pulse sequences (MR contrasts) and usually require nearly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Peirong Liu , Oula Puonti , Annabel Sorby-Adams , William T. Kimberly , Juan E. Iglesias

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) offers optical contrast, whereas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) excels in imaging soft tissue and organ anatomy. The fusion of PAT with MRI holds promising application prospects due to their complementary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yutian Zhong , Jinchuan He , Zhichao Liang , Shuangyang Zhang , Qianjin Feng , Lijun Lu , Li Qi

Pathology image segmentation across multiple centers encounters significant challenges due to diverse sources of heterogeneity including imaging modalities, organs, and scanning equipment, whose variability brings representation bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yuan Zhang , Feng Chen , Yaolei Qi , Guanyu Yang , Huazhu Fu

Medical image synthesis is an important topic for both clinical and research applications. Recently, diffusion models have become a leading approach in this area. Despite their strengths, many existing methods struggle with (1) limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Can Zhao , Pengfei Guo , Dong Yang , Yucheng Tang , Yufan He , Benjamin Simon , Mason Belue , Stephanie Harmon , Baris Turkbey , Daguang Xu