IEEE EMBC 2026 || Toronto, Canada || 26-30 July 2026

Th.1.3: Generative Models & Diffusion in Medical Imaging

Thursday, 30 July, 08:30 - 10:00

Location: Room 717A

Session Type: Oral

Session Co-Chairs: Buket Barkana and Alexander Nazarov

Theme 2: Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing

Thu, 30 Jul, 08:30 - 08:45

Th.1.3.1: SELF-SUPERVISED MRI DENOISING USING A PHYSICS-AWARE DUAL-BRANCH NETWORK

Juncen Wu, Zijian Zhou, ShanghaiTech University; Wenchao Yang, United Imaging Healthcare; Xin Bai, Peng Hu, ShanghaiTech University

Thu, 30 Jul, 08:45 - 09:00

Th.1.3.2: CONSTRAINED PET RECONSTRUCTION VIA LATENT-SPACE OPTIMIZATION WITH FLOW-MATCHING PRIORS

Hengjia Ran, Huafeng Liu, Bo Zhao, Zhejiang University

Thu, 30 Jul, 09:00 - 09:15

Th.1.3.3: From Baseline to Follow-Up: Counterfactual Spine DXA Image Synthesis in UK Biobank Using a Causal Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder

Yilin Zhang, University of Southampton; Nicholas C Harvey, Nicholas R Fuggle, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital; Rahman Attar, University of Southampton

Thu, 30 Jul, 09:15 - 09:30

Th.1.3.4: TP-GAN: A TRANSFORMER-BASED PROGRESSIVE GAN MODEL FOR SYSTEM MATRIX RECOVERY OF MAGNETIC PARTICLE IMAGING

Lizhi Zhang, Jintao Li, Zijian Tang, Northwest university; Shuangchen Li, tsinghua university; Hongbo Guo, Xiaowei He, Northwest university

Thu, 30 Jul, 09:30 - 09:45

Th.1.3.5: LIVERDIFF: TWO-STAGE CONTROLLABLE LIVER CT IMAGE SYNTHESIS VIA HYBRID GAN-DIFFUSION MODELS

Zheng Liu, Lizhuo Guan, Mengxiang Chu, Xuelei He, Fengjun Zhao, Xiaowei He, Northwest University

Thu, 30 Jul, 09:45 - 10:00

Th.1.3.6: μClearGAN: A Blurriness Level Guided GAN for Unsupervised Microscopic Image Deblurring

Sixuan Wu, Anika Gaddam, Alexander T. Adams, Georgia Institute of Technology