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Most existing text-to-image generation methods adopt a multi-stage modular architecture which has three significant problems: 1) Training multiple networks increases the run time and affects the convergence and stability of the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker

Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Early detection and diagnosis of pulmonary nodules are essential for improving patient survival rates. Although previous research has integrated multimodal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xiao Yu , Zhaojie Fang , Guanyu Zhou , Yin Shen , Huoling Luo , Ye Li , Ahmed Elazab , Xiang Wan , Ruiquan Ge , Changmiao Wang

This work introduces a new latent diffusion model to generate high-quality 3D chest CT scans conditioned on 3D anatomical masks. The method synthesizes volumetric images of size 256x256x256 at 1 mm isotropic resolution using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Anna Oliveras , Roger Marí , Rafael Redondo , Oriol Guardià , Ana Tost , Bhalaji Nagarajan , Carolina Migliorelli , Vicent Ribas , Petia Radeva

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , J. Peter Campbell , Susan Ostmo , Michael F. Chiang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Accurate assessment of Lung nodules is a time consuming and error prone ingredient of the radiologist interpretation work. Automating 3D volume detection and segmentation can improve workflow as well as patient care. Previous works have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Evi Kopelowitz , Guy Engelhard

Remote sensing change detection between bi-temporal images receives growing concentration from researchers. However, comparing two bi-temporal images for detecting changes is challenging, as they demonstrate different appearances. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Luyi Qiu , Xiaofeng Zhang , ChaoChen Gu , and ShanYing Zhu

Detection of pulmonary nodules in chest CT imaging plays a crucial role in early diagnosis of lung cancer. Manual examination is highly time-consuming and error prone, calling for computer-aided detection, both to improve efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Zhongliu Xie

Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of different modalities can provide complementary information for clinical diagnosis, but whole modalities are often costly to access. Most existing methods only focus on synthesizing missing images between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Bingyu Xin , Yifan Hu , Yefeng Zheng , Hongen Liao

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

Image synthesis via Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) of three-dimensional (3D) medical images has great potential that can be extended to many medical applications, such as, image enhancement and disease progression modeling. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Sungmin Hong , Razvan Marinescu , Adrian V. Dalca , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Martin Bretzner , Natalia S. Rost , Polina Golland

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have the capability of synthesizing images, which have been successfully applied to medical image synthesis tasks. However, most of existing methods merely consider the global contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Tianyang Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yitian Zhao , Jun Cheng , Mengjie Guo , Zaiwang Gu , Bing Yang , Yuting Xiao , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

Lung cancer is one of the prevalence diseases in the world which cause many deaths. Detecting early stages of lung cancer is so necessary. So, modeling and simulating some intelligent medical systems is an essential which can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Ehsan Sadeghi Pour , Mahdi Esmaeili

This paper proposes a novel and efficient method to build a Computer-Aided Diagnoses (CAD) system for lung nodule detection based on Computed Tomography (CT). This task was treated as an Object Detection on Video (VID) problem by imitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Ning Li , Haopeng Liu , Bin Qiu , Wei Guo , Shijun Zhao , Kungang Li , Jie He

Although Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in various tasks, they still face challenges in generating high quality images. In this paper, we propose Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (StackGAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

AI models for lung cancer screening are limited by data scarcity, impacting generalizability and clinical applicability. Generative models address this issue but are constrained by training data variability. We introduce SYN-LUNGS, a…

Recently, intelligent analysis of lung nodules with the assistant of computer aided detection (CAD) techniques can improve the accuracy rate of lung cancer diagnosis. However, existing CAD systems and pulmonary datasets mainly focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Muwei Jian , Haoran Zhang , Mingju Shao , Hongyu Chen , Huihui Huang , Yanjie Zhong , Changlei Zhang , Bin Wang , Penghui Gao

Deep neural networks (DNN) are commonly used to denoise and sharpen X-ray computed tomography (CT) images with the goal of reducing patient X-ray dosage while maintaining reconstruction quality. However, naive application of DNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Madhuri Nagare , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

Paired multi-modality medical images, can provide complementary information to help physicians make more reasonable decisions than single modality medical images. But they are difficult to generate due to multiple factors in practice (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Junxiao Chen , Jia Wei , Rui Li

Computed Tomography (CT) plays a pivotal role in medical diagnosis; however, variability across reconstruction kernels hinders data-driven approaches, such as deep learning models, from achieving reliable and generalized performance. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Francesco Di Feola , Ludovica Pompilio , Cecilia Assolito , Valerio Guarrasi , Paolo Soda