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3D scene generation conditioned on text prompts has significantly progressed due to the development of 2D diffusion generation models. However, the textual description of 3D scenes is inherently inaccurate and lacks fine-grained control…

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Text-to-image models are showcasing the impressive ability to create high-quality and diverse generative images. Nevertheless, the transition from freehand sketches to complex scene images remains challenging using diffusion models. In this…

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In this paper, we learn a diffusion model to generate 3D data on a scene-scale. Specifically, our model crafts a 3D scene consisting of multiple objects, while recent diffusion research has focused on a single object. To realize our goal,…

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Existing segmentation models trained on a single medical imaging dataset often lack robustness when encountering unseen organs or tumors. Developing a robust model capable of identifying rare or novel tumor categories not present during…

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High anisotropy in volumetric medical images can lead to the inconsistent quantification of anatomical and pathological structures. Particularly in optical coherence tomography (OCT), slice spacing can substantially vary across and within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Coen de Vente , Mohammad Mohaiminul Islam , Philippe Valmaggia , Carel Hoyng , Adnan Tufail , Clara I. Sánchez

Computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in clinical settings because it delivers detailed 3D images of the human body. However, performing CT scans is not always feasible due to radiation exposure and limitations in certain surgical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xuhui Liu , Zhi Qiao , Runkun Liu , Hong Li , Juan Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Zhen Qian , Baochang Zhang

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Huidong Xie , Weijie Gan , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Liang Guo , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Ge Wang , Chi Liu

Objective: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a low-dose imaging alternative to conventional CT, but suffers from noise, scatter, and artifacts that degrade image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) aims to translate CBCT to high-quality…

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Due to the three-dimensional nature of CT- or MR-scans, generative modeling of medical images is a particularly challenging task. Existing approaches mostly apply patch-wise, slice-wise, or cascaded generation techniques to fit the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Paul Friedrich , Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Alicia Durrer , Philippe C. Cattin

Despite the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models, their integration into safety-critical or scientifically rigorous applications remains hindered by the need to ensure compliance with stringent physical, structural, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jacob K. Christopher , Michael Cardei , Jinhao Liang , Ferdinando Fioretto

Medical image segmentation using deep learning (DL) has enabled the development of automated analysis pipelines for large-scale population studies. However, state-of-the-art DL methods are prone to hallucinations, which can result in…

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Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

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Different modalities of medical images provide unique physiological and anatomical information for diseases. Multi-modal medical image fusion integrates useful information from different complementary medical images with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Yuchun Wang , Xiaoqi Cheng , Huafeng Li , Haishu Tan

Designing stylized cinemagraphs is challenging due to the difficulty in customizing complex and expressive flow elements. To achieve intuitive and detailed control of the generated cinemagraphs, sketches provide a feasible solution to…

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In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets is challenging due to both accessibility issues and stringent privacy regulations. Consequently, data availability and privacy protection are major obstacles to applying machine learning in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Wenwu Tang , Khaled Seyam , Bin Yang

Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation (FSMIS) aims to segment novel object classes in medical images using only minimal annotated examples, addressing the critical challenges of data scarcity and domain shifts prevalent in medical imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Meihua Li , Yang Zhang , Weizhao He , Hu Qu , Yisong Li

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

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

Diffusion models learn strong image priors that can be leveraged to solve inverse problems like medical image reconstruction. However, for real-world applications such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, directly training diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Taewon Yang , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

3D sketches are widely used for visually representing the 3D shape and structure of objects or scenes. However, the creation of 3D sketch often requires users to possess professional artistic skills. Existing research efforts primarily…

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