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20192025
most citedA Parallel Down-Up Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

107 citations · 199 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.med-ph2025

Estimating Task-based Performance Bounds for Accelerated MRI Image Reconstruction Methods by Use of Learned-Ideal Observers

Kaiyan Li, Prabhat Kc, Hua Li +3

Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed and optimized by the use of objective measures of image quality (IQ). The performance of the ideal observer (IO) acting on imaging mea…

eess.IV2024

Prior-guided Diffusion Model for Cell Segmentation in Quantitative Phase Imaging

Zhuchen Shao, Mark A. Anastasio, Hua Li

Purpose: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a label-free technique that provides high-contrast images of tissues and cells without the use of chemicals or dyes. Accurate semantic…

eess.IV2023

Assessing the capacity of a denoising diffusion probabilistic model to reproduce spatial context

Rucha Deshpande, Muzaffer Özbey, Hua Li +2

Diffusion models have emerged as a popular family of deep generative models (DGMs). In the literature, it has been claimed that one class of diffusion models -- denoising diffusion…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Cell Nuclei via Diffusion-based Large-Scale Pre-Training and Collaborative Learning

Zhuchen Shao, Sourya Sengupta, Hua Li +1

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challeng…

eess.IV2023

A quality assurance framework for real-time monitoring of deep learning segmentation models in radiotherapy

Xiyao Jin, Yao Hao, Jessica Hilliard +5

To safely deploy deep learning models in the clinic, a quality assurance framework is needed for routine or continuous monitoring of input-domain shift and the models' performance…

eess.IV2022★ 3 cited

On the impact of incorporating task-information in learning-based image denoising

Kaiyan Li, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio

A variety of deep neural network (DNN)-based image denoising methods have been proposed for use with medical images. These methods are typically trained by minimizing loss function…

cs.CV2022

Application of DatasetGAN in medical imaging: preliminary studies

Zong Fan, Varun Kelkar, Mark A. Anastasio +1

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely investigated for many potential applications in medical imaging. DatasetGAN is a recently proposed framework based on modern…

eess.SP2021

A Hybrid Approach for Approximating the Ideal Observer for Joint Signal Detection and Estimation Tasks by Use of Supervised Learning and Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Methods

Kaiyan Li, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li +1

The ideal observer (IO) sets an upper performance limit among all observers and has been advocated for assessing and optimizing imaging systems. For general joint detection and est…

eess.IV2021★ 3 cited

Impact of deep learning-based image super-resolution on binary signal detection

Xiaohui Zhang, Varun A. Kelkar, Jason Granstedt +2

Deep learning-based image super-resolution (DL-SR) has shown great promise in medical imaging applications. To date, most of the proposed methods for DL-SR have only been assessed…

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…

cs.CV2021

Exploiting Diverse Characteristics and Adversarial Ambivalence for Domain Adaptive Segmentation

Bowen Cai, Huan Fu, Rongfei Jia +3

Adapting semantic segmentation models to new domains is an important but challenging problem. Recently enlightening progress has been made, but the performance of existing methods…

eess.IV2020★ 3 cited

Deeply-Supervised Density Regression for Automatic Cell Counting in Microscopy Images

Shenghua He, Kyaw Thu Minn, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel +2

Accurately counting the number of cells in microscopy images is required in many medical diagnosis and biological studies. This task is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to subjec…

cs.CV2020★ 107 cited

A Parallel Down-Up Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Chongyi Li, Runmin Cong, Chunle Guo +4

The diverse spatial resolutions, various object types, scales and orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs) challenge the current salient obje…

eess.SP2020★ 15 cited

Approximating the Ideal Observer for joint signal detection and localization tasks by use of supervised learning methods

Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio

Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed and optimized by use of objective measures of image quality (IQ). The Ideal Observer (IO) performance has been advocated to provide a…

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…

cs.CV2020

Learning Numerical Observers using Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Shenghua He, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li +1

Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed by use of objective image quality measures. Supervised deep learning methods have been investigated to implement numerical observers f…

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…

eess.SP2019★ 47 cited

Approximating the Ideal Observer and Hotelling Observer for binary signal detection tasks by use of supervised learning methods

Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio

It is widely accepted that optimization of medical imaging system performance should be guided by task-based measures of image quality (IQ). Task-based measures of IQ quantify the…