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Medical image denoising is essential for improving image quality while minimizing the exposure of sensitive information, particularly when working with large-scale clinical datasets. This study explores distributed deep learning for…

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In this paper, we introduce NBNet, a novel framework for image denoising. Unlike previous works, we propose to tackle this challenging problem from a new perspective: noise reduction by image-adaptive projection. Specifically, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Shen Cheng , Yuzhi Wang , Haibin Huang , Donghao Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Purpose: Stereo matching methods that enable depth estimation are crucial for visualization enhancement applications in computer-assisted surgery (CAS). Learning-based stereo matching methods are promising to predict accurate results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zixin Yang , Richard Simon , Cristian A. Linte

Photoacoustic (PA) image reconstruction involves acoustic inversion that necessitates the specification of the speed of sound (SoS) within the medium of propagation. Due to the lack of information on the spatial distribution of the SoS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Mengjie Shi , Tom Vercauteren , Wenfeng Xia

Well-annotated medical datasets enable deep neural networks (DNNs) to gain strong power in extracting lesion-related features. Building such large and well-designed medical datasets is costly due to the need for high-level expertise. Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yixiong Chen , Chunhui Zhang , Chris H. Q. Ding , Li Liu

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in ultrasound (US) images, particularly small ones, is challenging due to noise and variability in imaging conditions (e.g., probe position, patient anatomy, tissue characteristics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Danielle L. Ferreira , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni , Gopal Avinash

The quality of the reconstructed photoacoustic image largely depends on the amount of photoacoustic (PA) boundary data available, which in turn is proportional to the number of detectors employed. In case of limited data (owing to less…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-20 Navchetan Awasthi , Rohit Pardasani , Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Manojit Pramanik , Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy

Self-supervised denoising has attracted widespread attention due to its ability to train without clean images. However, noise in real-world scenarios is often spatially correlated, which causes many self-supervised algorithms that assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shiyan Chen , Jiyuan Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Image noise modeling is a long-standing problem with many applications in computer vision. Early attempts that propose simple models, such as signal-independent additive white Gaussian noise or the heteroscedastic Gaussian noise model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Ali Maleky , Shayan Kousha , Michael S. Brown , Marcus A. Brubaker

We propose a new framework called Noise2Blur (N2B) for training robust image denoising models without pre-collected paired noisy/clean images. The training of the model requires only some (or even one) noisy images, some random unpaired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Huangxing Lin , Weihong Zeng , Xinghao Ding , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , John Paisley

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

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Handheld ultrasound devices face usage limitations due to user inexperience and cannot benefit from supervised deep learning without extensive expert annotations. Moreover, the models trained on standard ultrasound device data are…

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Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique that uses X-ray to obtain a real-time 2D video of the interior of a 3D object, helping surgeons to observe pathological structures and tissue functions especially during intervention. However, it suffers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Ruizhou Liu , Qiang Ma , Zhiwei Cheng , Yuanyuan Lyu , Jianji Wang , S. Kevin Zhou

Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging (PBI) enables high-contrast visualization of lung structures and holds strong medical potential. However, safe translation to the clinic will require a substantial radiation dose reduction,…

Image denoising is a well studied problem with an extensive activity that has spread over several decades. Despite the many available denoising algorithms, the quest for simple, powerful and fast denoisers is still an active and vibrant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Gregory Vaksman , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

While deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown extraordinary capability of modelling specific noise and denoising, they still perform poorly on real-world noisy images. The main reason is that the real-world noise is more…

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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target…

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