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The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

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In medical imaging, the heterogeneity of multi-centre data impedes the applicability of deep learning-based methods and results in significant performance degradation when applying models in an unseen data domain, e.g. a new centreor a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hongwei Li , Timo Loehr , Anjany Sekuboyina , Jianguo Zhang , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

Supervised learning algorithms trained on medical images will often fail to generalize across changes in acquisition parameters. Recent work in domain adaptation addresses this challenge and successfully leverages labeled data in a source…

We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

Deep learning-based models in medical imaging often struggle to generalize effectively to new scans due to data heterogeneity arising from differences in hardware, acquisition parameters, population, and artifacts. This limitation presents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Sebastian Nørgaard Llambias , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Previous harmonization methods focus on adjusting one inharmonious region in an image based on an input mask. They may face problems when dealing with different perturbations on different semantic regions without available input masks. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xuqian Ren , Yifan Liu

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Deep networks are now ubiquitous in large-scale multi-center imaging studies. However, the direct aggregation of images across sites is contraindicated for downstream statistical and deep learning-based image analysis due to inconsistent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Mengwei Ren , Neel Dey , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig

The annotation scarcity of medical image segmentation poses challenges in collecting sufficient training data for deep learning models. Specifically, models trained on limited data may not generalize well to other unseen data domains,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Heng Li , Haojin Li , Wei Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Xiuyun Su , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

For medical image analysis, segmentation models trained on one or several domains lack generalization ability to unseen domains due to discrepancies between different data acquisition policies. We argue that the degeneration in segmentation…

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Reliable brain tumor segmentation in MRI is indispensable for treatment planning and outcome monitoring, yet models trained on curated benchmarks often fail under domain shifts arising from scanner and protocol variability as well as…

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Synthetic cardiac MRI (CMRI) generation has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the scarcity of annotated medical imaging data. Recent advances in GANs, VAEs, diffusion probabilistic models, and flow-matching techniques aim to…

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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Yuchen Fei , Bo Zhan , Mei Hong , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Automatic semantic segmentation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images using deep neural networks greatly assists in evaluating and planning treatments for various clinical applications. However, training these models is conditioned on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Navapat Nananukul , Hamid Soltanian-zadeh , Mohammad Rostami

Neuroimaging consortia can enhance reliability and generalizability of findings by pooling data across studies to achieve larger sample sizes. To adjust for site and MRI protocol effects, imaging datasets are often harmonized based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-04 Shruti P. Gadewar , Alyssa H. Zhu , Iyad Ba Gari , Sunanda Somu , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Paul M. Thompson , Talia M. Nir , Neda Jahanshad

Connectivity matrices derived from diffusion MRI (dMRI) provide an interpretable and generalizable way of understanding the human brain connectome. However, dMRI suffers from inter-site and between-scanner variation, which impedes analysis…

Deep learning has revolutionized neuroimage analysis by delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy. However, the narrow scope of many training datasets constrains model robustness and generalizability. This challenge is particularly acute…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Malte Hoffmann

Synthesizing missing modalities in multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is vital for ensuring diagnostic completeness, particularly when full acquisitions are infeasible due to time constraints, motion artifacts, and patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yue Zhang , Zhizheng Zhuo , Siyao Xu , Shan Lv , Zhaoxi Liu , Jun Qiu , Qiuli Wang , Yaou Liu , S. Kevin Zhou