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eess.IV2026

Score-Based Ideal Observer Approximation via Denoising Score Matching for Signal-Known-Exactly Detection Tasks

Weimin Zhou

The Bayesian Ideal Observer (IO) establishes the theoretical upper bound on task performance for binary detection tasks. However, analytical computation of the IO test statistic is…

eess.IV2026

Constructing efficient channels for ideal observers using the conjugate gradient method

Weimin Zhou

Task-based assessment of image quality (IQ) is critically important for the design and optimization of medical imaging systems. Ideal observers, including the Bayesian Ideal Observ…

eess.IV2024

Ambient-Pix2PixGAN for Translating Medical Images from Noisy Data

Wentao Chen, Xichen Xu, Jie Luo +1

Image-to-image translation is a common task in computer vision and has been rapidly increasing the impact on the field of medical imaging. Deep learning-based methods that employ c…

eess.IV2024

AmbientCycleGAN for Establishing Interpretable Stochastic Object Models Based on Mathematical Phantoms and Medical Imaging Measurements

Xichen Xu, Wentao Chen, Weimin Zhou

Medical imaging systems that are designed for producing diagnostically informative images should be objectively assessed via task-based measures of image quality (IQ). Ideally, com…

eess.IV2021★ 15 cited

Learning stochastic object models from medical imaging measurements by use of advanced ambient generative adversarial networks

Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks +2

Purpose: To objectively assess new medical imaging technologies via computer-simulations, it is important to account for the variability in the ensemble of objects to be imaged. Th…

eess.IV2021

Assessing the Impact of Deep Neural Network-based Image Denoising on Binary Signal Detection Tasks

Kaiyan Li, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li +1

A variety of deep neural network (DNN)-based image denoising methods have been proposed for use with medical images. Traditional measures of image quality (IQ) have been employed t…

eess.IV2021★ 1 cited

Advancing the AmbientGAN for learning stochastic object models

Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks +3

Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed and optimized by use of objective-measures of image quality (IQ) that quantify the performance of an observer at specific tasks. Varia…

eess.IV2020★ 2 cited

Learning stochastic object models from medical imaging measurements using Progressively-Growing AmbientGANs

Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks +2

It has been advocated that medical imaging systems and reconstruction algorithms should be assessed and optimized by use of objective measures of image quality that quantify the pe…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Medical image reconstruction with image-adaptive priors learned by use of generative adversarial networks

Sayantan Bhadra, Weimin Zhou, Mark A. Anastasio

Medical image reconstruction is typically an ill-posed inverse problem. In order to address such ill-posed problems, the prior distribution of the sought after object property is u…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Progressively-Growing AmbientGANs For Learning Stochastic Object Models From Imaging Measurements

Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks +2

The objective optimization of medical imaging systems requires full characterization of all sources of randomness in the measured data, which includes the variability within the en…