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Missing data problems, such as missing modalities in multi-modal brain MRI and missing slices in cardiac MRI, pose significant challenges in clinical practice. Existing methods rely on external guidance to supply detailed missing state for…

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Multimodal Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging plays a crucial role in disease diagnosis due to its ability to provide complementary information by analyzing a relationship between multimodal images on the same subject. Acquiring all MR…

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Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited significant effectiveness in computer vision tasks, particularly in image generation. However, their notable performance heavily relies on labelled datasets, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Keqiang Fan , Xiaohao Cai , Mahesan Niranjan

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

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Brain lesion segmentation plays an essential role in neurological research and diagnosis. As brain lesions can be caused by various pathological alterations, different types of brain lesions tend to manifest with different characteristics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Xinru Zhang , Ni Ou , Berke Doga Basaran , Marco Visentin , Mengyun Qiao , Renyang Gu , Cheng Ouyang , Yaou Liu , Paul M. Matthew , Chuyang Ye , Wenjia Bai

F3-Net is a foundation model designed to overcome persistent challenges in clinical medical image segmentation, including reliance on complete multimodal inputs, limited generalizability, and narrow task specificity. Through flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

Another year of the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BraTS) 2021 provides an even larger dataset to facilitate collaboration and research of brain tumor segmentation methods, which are necessary for disease analysis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Andriy Myronenko

Magnetic resonance (MR) protocols rely on several sequences to assess pathology and organ status properly. Despite advances in image analysis, we tend to treat each sequence, here termed modality, in isolation. Taking advantage of the…

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We explore Generalizable Tumor Segmentation, aiming to train a single model for zero-shot tumor segmentation across diverse anatomical regions. Existing methods face limitations related to segmentation quality, scalability, and the range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yankai Jiang , Peng Zhang , Donglin Yang , Yuan Tian , Hai Lin , Xiaosong Wang

Widely used traditional pipelines for subcortical brain segmentation are often inefficient and slow, particularly when processing large datasets. Furthermore, deep learning models face challenges due to the high resolution of MRI images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Aaron Cao , Zongyu Li , Jordan Jomsky , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sashank Makanaboyina

In the realm of medical diagnostics, rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly yielded remarkable improvements in brain tumor segmentation. Encoder-Decoder architectures, such as U-Net, have played a…

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The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of generative tasks. The inherent randomness in diffusion models helps address issues such as blurring at the edges of medical images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Yilong Hu , Shijie Chang , Lihe Zhang , Feng Tian , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors is vital for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Deep learning has advanced on benchmarks, but two issues limit clinical use: no uncertainty estimates for errors and no segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrew Zhou

Diffusion models produce high-quality synthetic data but suffer from slow inference. We propose 3D Variable-Step Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (VS-DDPM) a framework engineered to maintain generative quality while accelerating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikoo Moradi , Gijs Luijten , Behrus Hinrichs-Puladi , Jens Kleesiek , Victor Alves , Jan Egger , André Ferreira

Accurate and computationally efficient 3D medical image segmentation remains a critical challenge in clinical workflows. Transformer-based architectures often demonstrate superior global contextual modeling but at the expense of excessive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Kavyansh Tyagi , Vishwas Rathi , Puneet Goyal

In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. Considering the correlation between different MR modalities, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Stéphane Canu

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Accurate and automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is essential for quantitative measurements, which play an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and prognosis. The…

Denoising diffusion models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in many image-generation tasks. They do, however, require a large amount of computational resources. This limits their application to medical tasks, where we…

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