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Intraoperative CT imaging serves as a crucial resource for surgical guidance; however, it may not always be readily accessible or practical to implement. In scenarios where CT imaging is not an option, reconstructing CT scans from X-rays…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Zhi Qiao , Xuhui Liu , Xiaopeng Wang , Runkun Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Pei Dong , Zhen Qian

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are the standard-of-care for the visualization and diagnosis of many clinical ailments, and are needed for the treatment planning of external beam radiotherapy. Unfortunately, the availability of CT scanners…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Yiran Sun , Hana Baroudi , Tucker Netherton , Laurence Court , Osama Mawlawi , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

The perception system in autonomous vehicles is responsible for detecting and tracking the surrounding objects. This is usually done by taking advantage of several sensing modalities to increase robustness and accuracy, which makes sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ramin Nabati , Hairong Qi

Recent advances in deep learning have shown that learning robust feature representations is critical for the success of many computer vision tasks, including medical image segmentation. In particular, both transformer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 David Li , Anvar Kurmukov , Mikhail Goncharov , Roman Sokolov , Mikhail Belyaev

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for producing high-quality 3D lung CT images guided by textual information. While diffusion-based generative models are increasingly used in medical imaging, current state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yanwu Xu , Li Sun , Wei Peng , Shuyue Jia , Katelyn Morrison , Adam Perer , Afrooz Zandifar , Shyam Visweswaran , Motahhare Eslami , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

We present DeepVesselNet, an architecture tailored to the challenges faced when extracting vessel networks or trees and corresponding features in 3-D angiographic volumes using deep learning. We discuss the problems of low execution speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Giles Tetteh , Velizar Efremov , Nils D. Forkert , Matthias Schneider , Jan Kirschke , Bruno Weber , Claus Zimmer , Marie Piraud , Bjoern H. Menze

Scene flow estimation aims to generate the 3D motion field of points between two consecutive frames of point clouds, which has wide applications in various fields. Existing point-based methods ignore the irregularity of point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xuezhi Xiang , Xi Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

The Gaussian diffusion model, initially designed for image generation, has recently been adapted for 3D point cloud generation. However, these adaptations have not fully considered the intrinsic geometric characteristics of 3D shapes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

We present VecFusion, a new neural architecture that can generate vector fonts with varying topological structures and precise control point positions. Our approach is a cascaded diffusion model which consists of a raster diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vikas Thamizharasan , Difan Liu , Shantanu Agarwal , Matthew Fisher , Michael Gharbi , Oliver Wang , Alec Jacobson , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Efficient and accurate brain ventricle segmentation from clinical CT scans is critical for emergency surgeries like ventriculostomy. With the challenges in poor soft tissue contrast and a scarcity of well-annotated databases for clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Reihaneh Teimouri , Marta Kersten-Oertel , Yiming Xiao

In recent years, many research achievements are made in the medical image fusion field. Medical Image fusion means that several of various modality image information is comprehended together to form one image to express its information. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 T Deepika

We introduce CurveFusion, the first approach for high quality scanning of thin structures at interactive rates using a handheld RGBD camera. Thin filament-like structures are mathematically just 1D curves embedded in R^3, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Lingjie Liu , Nenglun Chen , Duygu Ceylan , Christian Theobalt , Wenping Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

Improving connectivity and completeness are the most challenging aspects of liver vessel segmentation, especially for small vessels. These challenges require both learning the continuous vessel geometry, and focusing on small vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Xiaotong Zhang , Alexander Broersen , Gonnie CM van Erp , Silvia L. Pintea , Jouke Dijkstra

Point clouds are a very efficient way to represent volumetric data in medical imaging. First, they do not occupy resources for empty spaces and therefore can avoid trade-offs between resolution and field-of-view for voxel-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mattias Paul Heinrich

Chest X-ray imaging is a critical diagnostic tool for identifying pulmonary diseases. However, manual interpretation of these images is time-consuming and error-prone. Automated systems utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Saurabh Agarwal , K. V. Arya , Yogesh Kumar Meena

Vessels are complex structures in the body that have been studied extensively in multiple representations. While voxelization is the most common of them, meshes and parametric models are critical in various applications due to their…

In the medical domain, different computer-aided diagnosis systems have been proposed to extract blood vessels from retinal fundus images for the clinical treatment of vascular diseases. Accurate extraction of blood vessels from the fundus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tithi Parna Das , Sheetal Praharaj , Sarita Swain , Sumanshu Agarwal , Kundan Kumar

Computed tomography (CT) provides rich 3D anatomical details but is often constrained by high radiation exposure, substantial costs, and limited availability. While standard chest X-rays are cost-effective and widely accessible, they only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Martin Rath , Morteza Ghahremani , Yitong Li , Ashkan Taghipour , Marcus Makowski , Christian Wachinger