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Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular events, with CT-based Agatston scoring widely regarded as the clinical gold standard. However, CT is costly and impractical for large-scale screening, while chest…

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In bandwidth-limited online video streaming, videos are usually downsampled and compressed. Although recent online video super-resolution (online VSR) approaches achieve promising results, they are still compute-intensive and fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Wang , Hai Li , Shujuan Hou , Zhetao Dong , Xiaoyao Yang

Video decomposition is very important to extract moving foreground objects from complex backgrounds in computer vision, machine learning, and medical imaging, e.g., extracting moving contrast-filled vessels from the complex and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Binjie Qin , Haohao Mao , Ruipeng Zhang , Yueqi Zhu , Song Ding , Xu Chen

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are commonly utilized as a low-dose modality for lung screening. Nonetheless, the efficacy of CXRs is somewhat impeded, given that approximately 75% of the lung area overlaps with bone, which in turn hampers the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Zhanghao Chen , Yifei Sun , Wenjian Qin , Ruiquan Ge , Cheng Pan , Wenming Deng , Zhou Liu , Wenwen Min , Ahmed Elazab , Xiang Wan , Changmiao Wang

We propose a fully automated algorithm based on a deep learning framework enabling screening of a coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) examination for confident detection of the presence or absence of coronary artery…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Sema Candemir , Richard D. White , Mutlu Demirer , Vikash Gupta , Matthew T. Bigelow , Luciano M. Prevedello , Barbaros S. Erdal

Pathological alterations in the human vascular system underlie many chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and aneurysms. However, manually analyzing diagnostic images of the vascular system, such as computed tomographic angiograms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni , Breanna Pederson , Ali Firooz , Hamed Abdollahi , Andrew K. Smith , Daniel G. Clair , Susan M. Lessner , Homayoun Valafar

Segmenting anatomical structures in medical images has been successfully addressed with deep learning methods for a range of applications. However, this success is heavily dependent on the quality of the image that is being segmented. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Ilkay Oksuz , James R. Clough , Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol Anton , Aurelien Bustin , Gastao Cruz , Claudia Prieto , Andrew P. King , Julia A. Schnabel

We investigated whether a combination of k-space undersampling and variable density averaging enhances image quality for low-SNR MRI acquisitions. We implemented 3D Cartesian k-space prospective undersampling with a variable number of…

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common cause of death worldwide. Invasive x-ray coronary angiography (ICA) is one of the most important imaging modalities for the diagnosis of CVDs. ICA typically acquires only two 2D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yiying Wang , Abhirup Banerjee , Robin P. Choudhury , Vicente Grau

Cardiac disease evaluation depends on multiple diagnostic modalities: electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose abnormal heart rhythms, and imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and echocardiography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Evariste Njomgue Fotso , Buntheng Ly , Hubert Cochet , Maxime Sermesant

Recent weakly supervised video anomaly detection methods have achieved significant advances by employing unified frameworks for joint optimization. However, this paradigm is limited by a fundamental sensitivity-stability trade-off, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hantao Zheng , Ning Han , Yawen Zeng , Hao Chen

PURPOSE: Real-time assessment of ventricular volumes requires high acceleration factors. Residual convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown potential for removing artifacts caused by data undersampling. In this study we investigated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Felix Lucka , Vivek Muthurangu , Jennifer A. Steeden

Automatic segmentation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) videos can assist radiologists in efficient diagnosis of HCC and accurate evaluation of tumors in clinical practice. Few studies have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Wenting Jiang , Yicheng Jiang , Lu Zhang , Changmiao Wang , Xiaoguang Han , Shuixing Zhang , Xiang Wan , Shuguang Cui

We address the problem of reconstructing high quality images from undersampled MRI data. This is a challenging task due to the highly ill-posed nature of the problem. In particular, in dynamic MRI scans, the interaction between the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Noémie Debroux , Guy Williams , Martin J. Graves , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb

Recent advances in photoacoustic (PA) imaging have enabled detailed images of microvascular structure and quantitative measurement of blood oxygenation or perfusion. Standard reconstruction methods for PA imaging are based on solving an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 MinWoo Kim , Geng-Shi Jeng , Ivan Pelivanov , Matthew O'Donnell

We propose SparseContrast, a new framework that merges dynamic sparse attention with contrastive learning for medical imaging, with a focus on chest X-ray disease detection in low-data settings. Traditional contrastive learning methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paarth Prasad , Ruchika Malhotra

Purpose: To improve the quality of images obtained via dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) that include motion artifacts and blurring using a deep learning approach. Methods: A multi-channel convolutional neural network (MARC) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Daiki Tamada , Marie-Luise Kromrey , Hiroshi Onishi , Utaroh Motosugi

This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Johannes Thalhammer , Manuel Schultheiss , Tina Dorosti , Tobias Lasser , Franz Pfeiffer , Daniela Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that extends the functionality of OCT by extracting moving red blood cell signals from surrounding static biological tissues. OCTA has emerged as a valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Jinpeng Liao , Tianyu Zhang , Yilong Zhang , Chunhui Li , Zhihong Huang