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Pseudo-healthy image inpainting is an essential preprocessing step for analyzing pathological brain MRI scans. Most current inpainting methods favor slice-wise 2D models for their high in-plane fidelity, but their independence across slices…

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Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

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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

Diffusion models face significant challenges when employed for large-scale medical image reconstruction in real practice such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT). Due to the demanding memory, time, and data requirements, it is difficult to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bowen Song , Jason Hu , Zhaoxu Luo , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

Deep learning-based 3D imaging, in particular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is challenging because of limited availability of 3D training data. Therefore, 2D diffusion models trained on 2D slices are starting to be leveraged for 3D MRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Anselm Krainovic , Stefan Ruschke , Reinhard Heckel

Recently, researchers have proposed various deep learning methods to accurately detect infrared targets with the characteristics of indistinct shape and texture. Due to the limited variety of infrared datasets, training deep learning models…

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Diffusion models have achieved significant success in both natural image and medical image domains, encompassing a wide range of applications. Previous investigations in medical images have often been constrained to specific anatomical…

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Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Currently, applying diffusion models in pixel space of high resolution images is difficult. Instead, existing approaches focus on diffusion in lower dimensional spaces (latent diffusion), or have multiple super-resolution levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Tim Salimans

Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance across various generative tasks including images, videos, and audio. However, they encounter difficulties in directly generating high-resolution samples. Previously proposed solutions…

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Purpose: To accelerate MRI acquisition by incorporating the previous scans of a subject during reconstruction. Although longitudinal imaging constitutes much of clinical MRI, leveraging previous scans is challenging due to the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Yonatan Urman , Zachary Shah , Ashwin Kumar , Bruno P. Soares , Kawin Setsompop

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

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Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Diffusion models are the current state-of-the-art for solving inverse problems in imaging. Their impressive generative capability allows them to approximate sampling from a prior distribution, which alongside a known likelihood function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Samuel W. Remedios , Zhangxing Bian , Shuwen Wei , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

Diffusion model have been successfully applied to many inverse problems, including MRI and CT reconstruction. Researchers typically re-purpose models originally designed for unconditional sampling without modifications. Using two different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Lukas Glaszner , Martin Zach

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in image and video generation; however, they encounter challenges in the correct composition of objects when generating images of varying sizes due to single-scale training data. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Lanqing Guo , Yingqing He , Haoxin Chen , Menghan Xia , Xiaodong Cun , Yufei Wang , Siyu Huang , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen , Ying Shan , Bihan Wen

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Ultra-high-resolution image generation poses great challenges, such as increased semantic planning complexity and detail synthesis difficulties, alongside substantial training resource demands. We present UltraPixel, a novel architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingjing Ren , Wenbo Li , Haoyu Chen , Renjing Pei , Bin Shao , Yong Guo , Long Peng , Fenglong Song , Lei Zhu

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang