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Prompt-Guided Dual-Path UNet with Mamba for Medical Image Segmentation
Authors: Shaolei Zhang, Jinyan Liu, Tianyi Qian, Xuesong Li
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Segmentation, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, Mamba, Medical Image Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, State Space Models

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers are widely employed in constructing UNet architectures for medical image segmentation tasks. However, CNNs struggle to model long-range dependencies, while transformers suffer from quadratic computational complexity. Recently, Mamba, a type of State Space Models, has gained attention for its exceptional ability to model long-range interactions while maintaining linear computational complexity. Despite the emergence of several Mamba-based methods, they still present the following limitations: first, their network designs generally lack perceptual capabilities for the original input data; second, they primarily focus on capturing global information, while often neglecting local details. To address these challenges, we propose a prompt-guided CNN-Mamba dual-path UNet, termed PGM-UNet, for medical image segmentation. Specifically, we introduce a prompt-guided residual Mamba module that adaptively extracts dynamic visual prompts from the original input data, effectively guiding Mamba in capturing global information. Additionally, we design a local-global information fusion network, comprising a local information extraction module, a prompt-guided residual Mamba module, and a multi-focus attention fusion module, which effectively integrates local and global information. Furthermore, inspired by Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), we develop a multi-scale information extraction module to capture richer contextual information without altering the resolution. We conduct extensive experiments on the ISIC-2017, ISIC-2018, DIAS, and DRIVE. The results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in multiple medical image segmentation tasks.
Optimizing Breast Cancer Detection in Mammograms: A Comprehensive Study of Transfer Learning, Resolution Reduction, and Multi-View Classification
Authors: Daniel G. P. Petrini, Hae Yong Kim
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Breast Cancer Detection, GPU, image-classification, Image Classification, Transfer Learning

This study explores open questions in the application of machine learning for breast cancer detection in mammograms. Current approaches often employ a two-stage transfer learning process: first, adapting a backbone model trained on natural images to develop a patch classifier, which is then used to create a single-view whole-image classifier. Additionally, many studies leverage both mammographic views to enhance model performance. In this work, we systematically investigate five key questions: (1) Is the intermediate patch classifier essential for optimal performance? (2) Do backbone models that excel in natural image classification consistently outperform others on mammograms? (3) When reducing mammogram resolution for GPU processing, does the learn-to-resize technique outperform conventional methods? (4) Does incorporating both mammographic views in a two-view classifier significantly improve detection accuracy? (5) How do these findings vary when analyzing low-quality versus high-quality mammograms? By addressing these questions, we developed models that outperform previous results for both single-view and two-view classifiers. Our findings provide insights into model architecture and transfer learning strategies contributing to more accurate and efficient mammogram analysis.
A Spatiotemporal Radar-Based Precipitation Model for Water Level Prediction and Flood Forecasting
Authors: Sakshi Dhankhar, Stefan Wittek, Hamidreza Eivazi, Andreas Rausch
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00

Study Region: Goslar and G\"ottingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Study Focus: In July 2017, the cities of Goslar and G\"ottingen experienced severe flood events characterized by short warning time of only 20 minutes, resulting in extensive regional flooding and significant damage. This highlights the critical need for a more reliable and timely flood forecasting system. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the impact of radar-based precipitation data on forecasting river water levels in Goslar. Additionally, the study examines how precipitation influences water level forecasts in G\"ottingen. The analysis integrates radar-derived spatiotemporal precipitation patterns with hydrological sensor data obtained from ground stations to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach in improving flood prediction capabilities. New Hydrological Insights for the Region: A key innovation in this paper is the use of residual-based modeling to address the non-linearity between precipitation images and water levels, leading to a Spatiotemporal Radar-based Precipitation Model with residuals (STRPMr). Unlike traditional hydrological models, our approach does not rely on upstream data, making it independent of additional hydrological inputs. This independence enhances its adaptability and allows for broader applicability in other regions with RADOLAN precipitation. The deep learning architecture integrates (2+1)D convolutional neural networks for spatial and temporal feature extraction with LSTM for timeseries forecasting. The results demonstrate the potential of the STRPMr for capturing extreme events and more accurate flood forecasting.
Single-Step Latent Consistency Model for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution
Authors: Xiaohui Sun, Jiangwei Mo, Hanlin Wu, Jie Ma
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Super-Resolution, Super-Resolution

Recent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have greatly advanced remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR). However, their iterative sampling processes often result in slow inference speeds, limiting their application in real-time tasks. To address this challenge, we propose the latent consistency model for super-resolution (LCMSR), a novel single-step diffusion approach designed to enhance both efficiency and visual quality in RSISR tasks. Our proposal is structured into two distinct stages. In the first stage, we pretrain a residual autoencoder to encode the differential information between high-resolution (HR) and low-resolution (LR) images, transitioning the diffusion process into a latent space to reduce computational costs. The second stage focuses on consistency diffusion learning, which aims to learn the distribution of residual encodings in the latent space, conditioned on LR images. The consistency constraint enforces that predictions at any two timesteps along the reverse diffusion trajectory remain consistent, enabling direct mapping from noise to data. As a result, the proposed LCMSR reduces the iterative steps of traditional diffusion models from 50-1000 or more to just a single step, significantly improving efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that LCMSR effectively balances efficiency and performance, achieving inference times comparable to non-diffusion models while maintaining high-quality output.
TFIC: End-to-End Text-Focused Image Compression for Coding for Machines
Authors: Stefano Della Fiore, Alessandro Gnutti, Marco Dalai, Pierangelo Migliorati, Riccardo Leonardi
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Compression, Optical Character Recognition, Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Traditional image compression methods aim to faithfully reconstruct images for human perception. In contrast, Coding for Machines focuses on compressing images to preserve information relevant to a specific machine task. In this paper, we present an image compression system designed to retain text-specific features for subsequent Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Our encoding process requires half the time needed by the OCR module, making it especially suitable for devices with limited computational capacity. In scenarios where on-device OCR is computationally prohibitive, images are compressed and later processed to recover the text content. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements in text extraction accuracy at low bitrates, even improving over the accuracy of OCR performed on uncompressed images, thus acting as a local pre-processing step.
Noisier2Inverse: Self-Supervised Learning for Image Reconstruction with Correlated Noise
Authors: Nadja Gruber, Johannes Schwab, Markus Haltmeier, Ander Biguri, Clemens Dlaska, Gyeongha Hwang
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Reconstruction, Seismic Imaging, Self-Supervised Learning

We propose Noisier2Inverse, a correction-free self-supervised deep learning approach for general inverse prob- lems. The proposed method learns a reconstruction function without the need for ground truth samples and is ap- plicable in cases where measurement noise is statistically correlated. This includes computed tomography, where detector imperfections or photon scattering create correlated noise patterns, as well as microscopy and seismic imaging, where physical interactions during measurement introduce dependencies in the noise structure. Similar to Noisier2Noise, a key step in our approach is the generation of noisier data from which the reconstruction net- work learns. However, unlike Noisier2Noise, the proposed loss function operates in measurement space and is trained to recover an extrapolated image instead of the original noisy one. This eliminates the need for an extrap- olation step during inference, which would otherwise suffer from ill-posedness. We numerically demonstrate that our method clearly outperforms previous self-supervised approaches that account for correlated noise.
Towards Robust Time-of-Flight Depth Denoising with Confidence-Aware Diffusion Model
Authors: Changyong He, Jin Zeng, Jiawei Zhang, Jiajie Guo
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Denoising

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors efficiently capture scene depth, but the nonlinear depth construction procedure often results in extremely large noise variance or even invalid areas. Recent methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve enhanced ToF denoising accuracy but tend to struggle when presented with severe noise corruption due to limited prior knowledge of ToF data distribution. In this paper, we propose DepthCAD, a novel ToF denoising approach that ensures global structural smoothness by leveraging the rich prior knowledge in Stable Diffusion and maintains local metric accuracy by steering the diffusion process with confidence guidance. To adopt the pretrained image diffusion model to ToF depth denoising, we apply the diffusion on raw ToF correlation measurements with dynamic range normalization before converting to depth maps. Experimental results validate the state-of-the-art performance of the proposed scheme, and the evaluation on real data further verifies its robustness against real-world ToF noise.
ASP-VMUNet: Atrous Shifted Parallel Vision Mamba U-Net for Skin Lesion Segmentation
Authors: Muyi Bao, Shuchang Lyu, Zhaoyang Xu, Qi Zhao, Changyu Zeng, Wenpei Bai, Guangliang Cheng
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Segmentation, Lesion Segmentation, Mamba, Medical Image Segmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Skin Lesion Segmentation

Skin lesion segmentation is a critical challenge in computer vision, and it is essential to separate pathological features from healthy skin for diagnostics accurately. Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are limited by narrow receptive fields, and Transformers face significant computational burdens. This paper presents a novel skin lesion segmentation framework, the Atrous Shifted Parallel Vision Mamba UNet (ASP-VMUNet), which integrates the efficient and scalable Mamba architecture to overcome limitations in traditional CNNs and computationally demanding Transformers. The framework introduces an atrous scan technique that minimizes background interference and expands the receptive field, enhancing Mamba's scanning capabilities. Additionally, the inclusion of a Parallel Vision Mamba (PVM) layer and a shift round operation optimizes feature segmentation and fosters rich inter-segment information exchange. A supplementary CNN branch with a Selective-Kernel (SK) Block further refines the segmentation by blending local and global contextual information. Tested on four benchmark datasets (ISIC16/17/18 and PH2), ASP-VMUNet demonstrates superior performance in skin lesion segmentation, validated by comprehensive ablation studies. This approach not only advances medical image segmentation but also highlights the benefits of hybrid architectures in medical imaging technology. Our code is available at https://github.com/BaoBao0926/ASP-VMUNet/tree/main.
Continual Learning With Quasi-Newton Methods
Authors: Steven Vander Eeckt, Hugo Van hamme
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Continual Learning

Catastrophic forgetting remains a major challenge when neural networks learn tasks sequentially. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) attempts to address this problem by introducing a Bayesian-inspired regularization loss to preserve knowledge of previously learned tasks. However, EWC relies on a Laplace approximation where the Hessian is simplified to the diagonal of the Fisher information matrix, assuming uncorrelated model parameters. This overly simplistic assumption often leads to poor Hessian estimates, limiting its effectiveness. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Continual Learning with Sampled Quasi-Newton (CSQN), which leverages Quasi-Newton methods to compute more accurate Hessian approximations. CSQN captures parameter interactions beyond the diagonal without requiring architecture-specific modifications, making it applicable across diverse tasks and architectures. Experimental results across four benchmarks demonstrate that CSQN consistently outperforms EWC and other state-of-the-art baselines, including rehearsal-based methods. CSQN reduces EWC's forgetting by 50 percent and improves its performance by 8 percent on average. Notably, CSQN achieves superior results on three out of four benchmarks, including the most challenging scenarios, highlighting its potential as a robust solution for continual learning.
Wavelet-based Global-Local Interaction Network with Cross-Attention for Multi-View Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Authors: Yongting Hu, Yuxin Lin, Chengliang Liu, Xiaoling Luo, Xiaoyan Dou, Qihao Xu, Yong Xu
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

Multi-view diabetic retinopathy (DR) detection has recently emerged as a promising method to address the issue of incomplete lesions faced by single-view DR. However, it is still challenging due to the variable sizes and scattered locations of lesions. Furthermore, existing multi-view DR methods typically merge multiple views without considering the correlations and redundancies of lesion information across them. Therefore, we propose a novel method to overcome the challenges of difficult lesion information learning and inadequate multi-view fusion. Specifically, we introduce a two-branch network to obtain both local lesion features and their global dependencies. The high-frequency component of the wavelet transform is used to exploit lesion edge information, which is then enhanced by global semantic to facilitate difficult lesion learning. Additionally, we present a cross-view fusion module to improve multi-view fusion and reduce redundancy. Experimental results on large public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The code is open sourced on https://github.com/HuYongting/WGLIN.
Exploring Semantic Feature Discrimination for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution and Opinion-Unaware No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
Authors: Guanglu Dong, Xiangyu Liao, Mingyang Li, Guihuan Guo, Chao Ren
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Image Quality Assessment, Image Super-Resolution, No-Reference Image Quality Assessment, NR-IQA, Super-Resolution

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied to image super-resolution (SR) to enhance the perceptual quality. However, most existing GAN-based SR methods typically perform coarse-grained discrimination directly on images and ignore the semantic information of images, making it challenging for the super resolution networks (SRN) to learn fine-grained and semantic-related texture details. To alleviate this issue, we propose a semantic feature discrimination method, SFD, for perceptual SR. Specifically, we first design a feature discriminator (Feat-D), to discriminate the pixel-wise middle semantic features from CLIP, aligning the feature distributions of SR images with that of high-quality images. Additionally, we propose a text-guided discrimination method (TG-D) by introducing learnable prompt pairs (LPP) in an adversarial manner to perform discrimination on the more abstract output feature of CLIP, further enhancing the discriminative ability of our method. With both Feat-D and TG-D, our SFD can effectively distinguish between the semantic feature distributions of low-quality and high-quality images, encouraging SRN to generate more realistic and semantic-relevant textures. Furthermore, based on the trained Feat-D and LPP, we propose a novel opinion-unaware no-reference image quality assessment (OU NR-IQA) method, SFD-IQA, greatly improving OU NR-IQA performance without any additional targeted training. Extensive experiments on classical SISR, real-world SISR, and OU NR-IQA tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods.
Adaptive Wavelet Filters as Practical Texture Feature Amplifiers for Parkinson's Disease Screening in OCT
Authors: Xiaoqing Zhang, Hanfeng Shi, Xiangyu Li, Haili Ye, Tao Xu, Na Li, Yan Hu, Fan Lv, Jiangfan Chen, Jiang Liu
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder globally. The eye's retina is an extension of the brain and has great potential in PD screening. Recent studies have suggested that texture features extracted from retinal layers can be adopted as biomarkers for PD diagnosis under optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Frequency domain learning techniques can enhance the feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) by decomposing frequency components involving rich texture features. Additionally, previous works have not exploited texture features for automated PD screening in OCT. Motivated by the above analysis, we propose a novel Adaptive Wavelet Filter (AWF) that serves as the Practical Texture Feature Amplifier to fully leverage the merits of texture features to boost the PD screening performance of DNNs with the aid of frequency domain learning. Specifically, AWF first enhances texture feature representation diversities via channel mixer, then emphasizes informative texture feature representations with the well-designed adaptive wavelet filtering token mixer. By combining the AWFs with the DNN stem, AWFNet is constructed for automated PD screening. Additionally, we introduce a novel Balanced Confidence (BC) Loss by mining the potential of sample-wise predicted probabilities of all classes and class frequency prior, to further boost the PD screening performance and trustworthiness of AWFNet. The extensive experiments manifest the superiority of our AWFNet and BC over state-of-the-art methods in terms of PD screening performance and trustworthiness.
Adaptive Multi-Order Graph Regularized NMF with Dual Sparsity for Hyperspectral Unmixing
Authors: Hui Chen, Liangyu Liu, Xianchao Xiu, Wanquan Liu
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Graph Learning, Hyperspectral Unmixing

Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is a critical yet challenging task in remote sensing. However, existing nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) methods with graph learning mostly focus on first-order or second-order nearest neighbor relationships and usually require manual parameter tuning, which fails to characterize intrinsic data structures. To address the above issues, we propose a novel adaptive multi-order graph regularized NMF method (MOGNMF) with three key features. First, multi-order graph regularization is introduced into the NMF framework to exploit global and local information comprehensively. Second, these parameters associated with the multi-order graph are learned adaptively through a data-driven approach. Third, dual sparsity is embedded to obtain better robustness, i.e., $\ell_{1/2}$-norm on the abundance matrix and $\ell_{2,1}$-norm on the noise matrix. To solve the proposed model, we develop an alternating minimization algorithm whose subproblems have explicit solutions, thus ensuring effectiveness. Experiments on simulated and real hyperspectral data indicate that the proposed method delivers better unmixing results.
$L^2$FMamba: Lightweight Light Field Image Super-Resolution with State Space Model
Authors: Zeqiang Wei, Kai Jin, Zeyi Hou, Kuan Song, Xiuzhuang Zhou
Date: 2025-03-25 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Super-Resolution, Mamba, Super-Resolution

Transformers bring significantly improved performance to the light field image super-resolution task due to their long-range dependency modeling capability. However, the inherently high computational complexity of their core self-attention mechanism has increasingly hindered their advancement in this task. To address this issue, we first introduce the LF-VSSM block, a novel module inspired by progressive feature extraction, to efficiently capture critical long-range spatial-angular dependencies in light field images. LF-VSSM successively extracts spatial features within sub-aperture images, spatial-angular features between sub-aperture images, and spatial-angular features between light field image pixels. On this basis, we propose a lightweight network, $L^2$FMamba (Lightweight Light Field Mamba), which integrates the LF-VSSM block to leverage light field features for super-resolution tasks while overcoming the computational challenges of Transformer-based approaches. Extensive experiments on multiple light field datasets demonstrate that our method reduces the number of parameters and complexity while achieving superior super-resolution performance with faster inference speed.
PSO-UNet: Particle Swarm-Optimized U-Net Framework for Precise Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
Authors: Shoffan Saifullah, Rafał Dreżewski
Date: 2025-03-24 00:00:00
Tasks: Brain Tumor Segmentation, Hyperparameter Optimization, Image Segmentation, Medical Image Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Tumor Segmentation

Medical image segmentation, particularly for brain tumor analysis, demands precise and computationally efficient models due to the complexity of multimodal MRI datasets and diverse tumor morphologies. This study introduces PSO-UNet, which integrates Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with the U-Net architecture for dynamic hyperparameter optimization. Unlike traditional manual tuning or alternative optimization approaches, PSO effectively navigates complex hyperparameter search spaces, explicitly optimizing the number of filters, kernel size, and learning rate. PSO-UNet substantially enhances segmentation performance, achieving Dice Similarity Coefficients (DSC) of 0.9578 and 0.9523 and Intersection over Union (IoU) scores of 0.9194 and 0.9097 on the BraTS 2021 and Figshare datasets, respectively. Moreover, the method reduces computational complexity significantly, utilizing only 7.8 million parameters and executing in approximately 906 seconds, markedly faster than comparable U-Net-based frameworks. These outcomes underscore PSO-UNet's robust generalization capabilities across diverse MRI modalities and tumor classifications, emphasizing its clinical potential and clear advantages over conventional hyperparameter tuning methods. Future research will explore hybrid optimization strategies and validate the framework against other bio-inspired algorithms to enhance its robustness and scalability.