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As digital medical imaging becomes more prevalent and archives increase in size, representation learning exposes an interesting opportunity for enhanced medical decision support systems. On the other hand, medical imaging data is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Eduardo Pinho , Carlos Costa

Data augmentation is essential for medical research to increase the size of training datasets and achieve better results. In this work, we experiment three GAN architectures with different loss functions to generate new brain MRIs. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Antoine Delplace

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Self-supervised deep learning has accelerated 2D natural image analysis but remains difficult to translate into 3D MRI, where data are scarce and pre-trained 2D backbones cannot capture volumetric context. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Liam Chalcroft , Jenny Crinion , Cathy J. Price , John Ashburner

Analysis and modeling of the ventricles and myocardium are important in the diagnostic and treatment of heart diseases. Manual delineation of those tissues in cardiac MR (CMR) scans is laborious and time-consuming. The ambiguity of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Jingkun Chen , Hongwei Li , Jianguo Zhang , Bjoern Menze

Image segmentation, real-value prediction, and cross-modal translation are critical challenges in medical imaging. In this study, we propose a versatile multi-task neural network framework, based on an enhanced Transformer U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Zhuoyao Xin , Christopher Wu , Dong Liu , Chunming Gu , Jia Guo , Jun Hua

Medical image analysis typically includes several tasks such as enhancement, segmentation, and classification. Traditionally, these tasks are implemented using separate deep learning models for separate tasks, which is not efficient because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ghada Zamzmi , Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Sameer Antani

Liver segmentation on images acquired using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in clinical management of liver diseases. Compared to MRI, CT images of liver are more abundant and readily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Jin Hong , Simon Chun-Ho Yu , Weitian Chen

Automated liver segmentation from radiology scans (CT, MRI) can improve surgery and therapy planning and follow-up assessment in addition to conventional use for diagnosis and prognosis. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Ugur Demir , Zheyuan Zhang , Bin Wang , Matthew Antalek , Elif Keles , Debesh Jha , Amir Borhani , Daniela Ladner , Ulas Bagci

Medical image segmentation remains challenging in low-data regimes, where scarce annotations often yield poor generalization and ambiguous boundaries with missing fine structures. Recent self-supervised pretraining has improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhiquan Chen , Haitao Wang , Guowei Zou , Hejun Wu

Brain tumor segmentation requires accurate identification of hierarchical regions including whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET) from multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. Due to tumor tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mingda Zhang , Yuyang Zheng , Ruixiang Tang , Jingru Qiu , Haiyan Ding

Data diversity is critical to success when training deep learning models. Medical imaging data sets are often imbalanced as pathologic findings are generally rare, which introduces significant challenges when training deep learning models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Hoo-Chang Shin , Neil A Tenenholtz , Jameson K Rogers , Christopher G Schwarz , Matthew L Senjem , Jeffrey L Gunter , Katherine Andriole , Mark Michalski

We propose a radical advance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MRI remains slow because it requires successive applications of magnetic field gradients to encode for spatial location. Parallel MRI accelerates imaging by permitting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Michael Hutchinson , Ulrich Raff , Luis Osorio

1.5T or 3T scanners are the current standard for clinical MRI, but low-field (<1T) scanners are still common in many lower- and middle-income countries for reasons of cost and robustness to power failures. Compared to modern high-field…

Purpose: Long scan time in phase encoding for forming complete K-space matrices is a critical drawback of MRI, making patients uncomfortable and wasting important time for diagnosing emergent diseases. This paper aims to reducing the scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yiming Liu , Yanwei Pang , Ruiqi Jin , Zhenchang Wang

Brain metastasis segmentation poses a significant challenge in medical imaging due to the complex presentation and variability in size and location of metastases. In this study, we first investigate the impact of different imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Yousef Sadegheih , Dorit Merhof

Supervised deep learning techniques can be used to generate synthetic 7T MRIs from 3T MRI inputs. This image enhancement process leverages the advantages of ultra-high-field MRI to improve the signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Qiming Cui , Duygu Tosun , Pratik Mukherjee , Reza Abbasi-Asl

Limited accessibility to high field MRI scanners (such as 7T, 11T) has motivated the development of post-processing methods to improve low field images. Several existing post-processing methods have shown the feasibility to improve 3T…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Prabhjot Kaur , Atul Singh Minhas , Chirag Kamal Ahuja , Anil Kumar Sao

This paper presents a Progressively-connected Light Field network (ProLiF), for the novel view synthesis of complex forward-facing scenes. ProLiF encodes a 4D light field, which allows rendering a large batch of rays in one training step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Peng Wang , Yuan Liu , Guying Lin , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging has a trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. By considering the in-vivo characteristics of human organs, it is necessary to provide clinicians with appropriate hardware specifications for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Hah Min Lew , Jae Seong Kim , Moon Hwan Lee , Jaegeun Park , Sangyeon Youn , Hee Man Kim , Jihun Kim , Jae Youn Hwang