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2025
PLATYPUS: Progressive Local Surface Estimator for Arbitrary-Scale Point Cloud Upsampling
#Point Cloud Upsampling   #3D Point Cloud Â
Donghyun Kim, Hyeonkyeong Kwon, Yumin Kim, Seong Jae Hwang
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
[arxiv]
Deep Learning-Based Pre-contrast CT Parcellation for MRI-Free Brain Amyloid PET QuantificationÂ
#PET   #CT   #Medical Imaging   #Whole-brain Segmentation
Kyobin Choo, Jaehoon Joo, Sangwon Lee, Daesung Kim, Hyunkeong Lim, Dongwoo Kim, Seongjin Kang, Seong Jae Hwang*, Mijin Yun*
Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2024. [Impact Factor: 10.0]
Disentangling Disentangled Representations: Towards Improved Latent Units via Diffusion Models
#Disentanglement   #Diffusion ModelÂ
Youngjun Jun, Jiwoo Park, Kyobin Choo, Tae Eun Choi, Seong Jae Hwang
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.
[arxiv]
DragText: Rethinking Text Embedding in Point-based Image EditingÂ
#Image Editing   #Diffusion ModelÂ
Gayoon Choi, Taejin Jeong, Sujung Hong, Jaehoon Joo, Seong Jae Hwang
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025. [Round 1 Accept (12% of round 1 submissions)]
[Project Page] [arxiv]
Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
#Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation   #Spectral Method Â
Chanyoung Kim, Dayun Ju, Woojung Han, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Seong Jae Hwang
[Project Page] [arxiv]
2024
EAGLE: Eigen Aggregation Learning for Object-Centric Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
#Object-centric Learning   #Segmentation Â
Chanyoung Kim*, Woojung Han*, Dayun Ju, Seong Jae Hwang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. [Highlight (top 2.8% of submissions)]
[Project Page] [open access] [arxiv] [github]
Advancing Text-Driven Chest X-Ray Generation with Policy-Based Reinforcement LearningÂ
#Diffusion Model   #Text-to-Image Generation   #Reinforcement Learning   #Medical ImagingÂ
Woojung Han*, Chanyoung Kim*, Dayun Ju, Yumin Shim, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. [Spotlight (top 3.4% of submissions)]
[Project Page] [arxiv] [github]Â
Slice-Consistent 3D Volumetric Brain CT-to-MRI Translation with 2D Brownian Bridge Diffusion ModelÂ
#Diffusion Model   #Image Translation   #Medical ImagingÂ
Kyobin Choo, Youngjun Jun, Mijin Yun, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. [Early Accept (top 11% of submissions)]
[Project Page] [arxiv] [github]
Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning for Multi-scanner PET to PET Reconstruction
#PEFT   #PET Reconstruction   #Medical ImagingÂ
Yumin Kim*, Gayoon Choi*, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
[Project Page] [arxiv] [github]
ESPA: An Unsupervised Harmonization Framework via Enhanced Structural Preserving Augmentation
#Data Harmonization   #Medical ImagingÂ
Mahbaneh Eshghzadeh Torbati, Davneet S. Minhas, Ahmad Tafti, Charles S. DeCarli, Dana L. Tudorascu, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
[PDF]
Superpixel-ComBat Modeling: A Joint Approach for Harmonization and Characterization of Inter-Scanner Variability in T1-Weighted Images
#Data Harmonization   #Medical ImagingÂ
Chang-Le Chen, Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh Torbati, Davneet S. Minhas, Charles M. Laymon, Seong Jae Hwang, Murat Bilgel, Adina Crainiceanu, Hecheng Jin, Weiquan Luo, Pauline Maillard, Evan Fletcher, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Charles S. DeCarli, Howard J. Aizenstein, Dana L. Tudorascu
Imaging Neuroscience, 2024.
FALCON: Frequency Adjoint Link with CONtinuous Density Mask for Fast Single Image Dehazing
#Dehazing   #Image Restoration  Â
Donghyun Kim, Seil Kang, Seong Jae Hwang
arXiv, 2024.
[arxiv]
WoLF: Large Language Model Framework for CXR UnderstandingÂ
#LLM   #Vision-Language Model   #Medical ImagingÂ
Seil Kang, Donghyun Kim, Junhyeok Kim, Hyo Kyung Lee, Seong Jae Hwang
arXiv, 2024.
[arxiv]
Brain-Streams: fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction with Multi-modal Guidance
#Image Reconstruction   #Vision-Language Model   #Medical ImagingÂ
Jaehoon Joo, Taejin Jeong, Seong Jae Hwang
arXiv, 2024.
[arxiv]
2023
MISPEL: A supervised deep learning method for harmonizing multi-scanner neuroimaging data
#Data Harmonization   #Medical Imaging Â
Mahbaneh Eshghzadeh Torbati, Davneet S. Minhas, Charles M. Laymon, Pauline Maillard, James D. Wilson, Chang-Le Chen, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Charles S. DeCarli, Seong Jae Hwang, Dana L. Tudorascu
Medical Image Analysis (MIA), 2023. [Impact Factor: 13.828, JCR 1.2%]
[MIA]
Domain Adversarial Neural Networks for Domain Generalization: When It Works and How to Improve
#Domain GeneralizationÂ
Anthony Sicilia, Xingchen Zhao, Seong Jae Hwang
Machine Learning, 2023. [Impact Factor: 7.5]
Evidence-empowered Transfer Learning for Alzheimer's Disease
#Transfer Learning   #Medical Imaging Â
Kai Ong, Hana Kim, Minjin Kim, Jinseong Jang, Beomseok Sohn, Yoon Seong Choi, Dosik Hwang, Seong Jae Hwang, Jinyoung Yeo
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2023.
[arxiv]
2022
PAC-Bayesian Domain Adaptation Bounds for Multiclass Learners
#PAC-Bayesian Learning   #Domain Adaptation Â
Anthony Sicilia, Katherine Atwell, Malihe Alikhani, Seong Jae Hwang
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2022. [Best Paper Award (1 of 712 submitted papers)]
Anatomic development of the upper airway during the first five years of life: A three-dimensional imaging study
#Medical Imaging Â
Ying Ji Chuang, Seong Jae Hwang, Kevin A Buhr, Courtney A Miller, Gregory D Avey, Brad H Story, Houri K. Vorperian
PLOS ONE, 2022.
2021
A multi-scanner neuroimaging data harmonization using RAVEL and ComBat
#Data Harmonization   #Medical Imaging Â
Mahbaneh Eshghzadeh Torbati, Davneet S. Minhas, Ghasan Ahmad, Erin E. O'Connor, John Muschelli, Charles Laymon, Zixi Yang, Annie Cohen, Howard J. Aizenstein, William E. Klunk, Bradley T. Christian, Seong Jae Hwang, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Dana L. Tudorascu
NeuroImage, 2021.
Multi-scanner Harmonization of Paired Neuroimaging Data via Structure Preserving Embedding Learning
#Data Harmonization   #Medical Imaging Â
Mahbaneh Eshghzadeh Torbati, Dana L. Tudorascu, Pauline Maillard, Davneet S. Minhas, Charles S. DeCarli, Seong Jae Hwang
The First Workshop on Computer Vision for Automated Medical Diagnosis (CVAMD), International Conference on Computer Vision (W-ICCV), 2021. [Oral]
PAC Bayesian Performance Guarantees for Deep (Stochastic) Networks in Medical Imaging
#PAC-Bayesian Learning   #Medical Imaging Â
Anthony Sicilia, Xingchen Zhao, Anastasia Sosnovskikh, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021.
Cycle Consistent Embedding of 3D Brains with Auto-Encoding Generative Adversarial Networks
#GAN Â Â #Medical Imaging Â
Shibo Xing, Harsh Sinha, Seong Jae Hwang
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (Short Paper - MIDL), 2021.
Learning Multi-resolution Graph Edge Embedding for Discovering Brain Network Dysfunction in Neurological Disorders
#GCN Â Â #Medical Imaging Â
Xin Ma, Guorong Wu, Seong Jae Hwang, Won Hwa Kim
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2021. [Acceptance rate: 30.0%]
Multi-Domain Learning by Meta-Learning: Taking Optimal Steps in Multi-Domain Loss Landscapes by Inner-Loop Learning
#Meta-learning   #Medical Imaging Â
Anthony Sicilia, Xingchen Zhao, Davneet Minhas, Erin O'Connor, Howard Aizenstein, William Klunk, Dana Tudorascu, Seong Jae Hwang
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2021.
Robust White Matter Hyperintensity Segmentation on Unseen Domain
#Domain Generalization   #Segmentation  #Medical Imaging Â
Xingchen Zhao, Anthony Sicilia, Davneet Minhas, Erin O'Connor, Howard Aizenstein, William Klunk, Dana Tudorascu, Seong Jae Hwang
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2021.
2015 - 2020
2020
Developmental morphology of the cervical vertebrae and the emergence of sexual dimorphism in size and shape: A computed tomography study
#Medical Imaging Â
Courtney A. Miller, Seong Jae Hwang, Meghan M. Cotter, Houri K. Vorperian
The Anatomical Record, 2020.
Classifying Nuclei Shape Heterogeneity in Breast Tumors with Skeletons
#Medical Imaging Â
Brian Faulkenstein, Adriana Kovashka, Seong Jae Hwang, S. Chakra Chennubhotla
Workshop on BioImage Computing, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV Workshop), 2020. [Oral Presentation]
[Springer link] [openreview pdf]
Learning Amyloid Pathology Progression from Longitudinal PiB-PET Images in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
#Medical Imaging Â
Wei Hao, Nicholas M. Vogt, Zihang Meng, Seong Jae Hwang, Rebecca L. Koscik, Sterling C. Johnson, Barbara B. Bendlin, Vikas Singh
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2020.
2019
Statistical Analysis of Longitudinally and Conditionally Generated Neuroimaging Measures via Conditional Recurrent Flow
#Normalizing Flow   #Medical Imaging Â
Seong Jae Hwang, Zirui Tao, Won Hwa Kim, Vikas Singh
The First Workshop on Statistical Deep Learning in Computer Vision, International Conference on Computer Vision (W-ICCV), 2019. [Oral]
Conditional Recurrent Flow: Conditional Generation of Longitudinal Samples with Applications to Neuroimaging
#Normalizing Flow   #Medical Imaging Â
Seong Jae Hwang, Zirui Tao, Won Hwa Kim, Vikas Singh
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019. [Acceptance rate: 25%]
Sampling-free Uncertainty Estimation in Gated Recurrent Units with Applications to Normative Modeling in Neuroimaging
#Uncertainty   #Medical Imaging Â
Seong Jae Hwang, Ronak Mehta, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2019. [Acceptance rate: 26%]
Large-Scale Training Framework for Video Annotation
#Video Understanding Â
Seong Jae Hwang, Joonseok Lee, Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Ariel Gordon, Zheng Xu, Paul Natsev
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2019. [Oral acceptance rate: 9.2%] [Oral]
Cervical vertebral growth and emergence of sexual dimorphism: A developmental study using computed tomography
#Medical Imaging Â
Courtney A. Miller, Seong Jae Hwang, Meghan M. Cotter, Houri K. Vorperian
Journal of Anatomy, 2019.
2018
Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurofibrillary tangles and synaptic dysfunction are associated with longitudinal decline in white matter connectivity: A multi-resolution graph analysis
Won Hwa Kim, Annie M. Racine, Nagesh Adluru, Seong Jae Hwang, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Cyhthia M. Carlsson, Sanjay Asthana, Rebecca L. Koscik, Sterling C. Johnson, Barbara B.Bendlin, Vikas Singh
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018.
Associations between PET Amyloid Pathology and DTI Brain Connectivity in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Won Hwa Kim, Sterling C. Johnson, Barbara B. Bendlin, Vikas Singh
Brain Connectivity, 2018.
Tensorize, Factorize and Regularize: Robust Visual Relationship Learning
Seong Jae Hwang, Sathya N. Ravi, Zirui Tao, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Maxwell D. Collins, Vikas Singh
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018. [Acceptance rate: 29.7%]
2017
Online Graph Completion: Multivariate Signal Recovery in Computer Vision
Won Hwa Kim, Mona Jalal, Seong Jae Hwang, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
2016
Adaptive Signal Recovery on Graphs via Harmonic Analysis for Experimental Design in Neuroimaging
Won Hwa Kim, Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016. [Acceptance rate: 26.6%]
Coupled Harmonic Bases for Longitudinal Characterization of Brain Networks
Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Maxwell D. Collins, Sathya N. Ravi, Barbara B. Bendlin, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016. [Acceptance rate: 29.9%]
[pdf] [supplementary] [poster] [code will be available here] [project page]
2015
A Projection free method for Generalized Eigenvalue Problem with a nonsmooth Regularizer
Seong Jae Hwang, Maxwell D. Collins, Sathya N. Ravi, Vamsi K. Ithapu, Nagesh Adluru, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015. [Acceptance rate: 30.9%]
[pdf] [fixed eq (18),(20)] [supplementary] [poster] [code] [project page] [PubMed]
conference abstracts
2022
Reducing MRI Inter-Scanner Variability Using 3D Superpixel ComBat
Chang-Le Chen, Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh Torbati, James D. Wilson, Davneet S. Minhas, Charles M. Laymon, Seong Jae Hwang, Pauline Maillard, Evan Fletcher, Charles S. DeCarli, Dana L. Tudorascu
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2022.
2021
An MRI multi-scanner neuroimaging data harmonization study using RAVEL and ComBat
Mahbaneh Eshghzadeh Torbati, Davneet S. Minhas, Ghasan Ahmad, Erin E. O'Connor, John Muschelli, Charles Laymon, Zixi Yang, Annie Cohen, Howard J. Aizenstein, William E. Klunk, Bradley T. Christian, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Seong Jae Hwang, Dana L. Tudorascu
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2021.
2020
Retrospective prediction of amyloid accumulation trajectories in a risk-enriched Alzheimer's disease cohort with sequential neural networks
Seong Jae Hwang, Rebecca L. Koscik, Tobey J. Betthauser, Zirui Tao, Won Hwa Kim, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI), 2020. [poster]
2019
Predicting amyloid accumulation trajectories in a risk-enriched Alzheimer's disease cohort with Deep Conditional Neural Networks
Seong Jae Hwang, Rebecca L. Koscik, Tobey J. Betthauser, Zirui Tao, Won Hwa Kim, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2019.
A Normative Modeling Based Analysis of Amyloid, Cognition, and Tau in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
Zirui Tao, Ronak R. Mehta, Seong Jae Hwang, Rebecca L. Koscik, Erin Jonaitis, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2019.
Sequential Deep Learning Algorithms show structural connectivity differences by amyloid status
Xingjian Zhen, Rudrasis Chakraborty, Nocholas Vogt, Seong Jae Hwang, Sterling C. Johnson, Barbara B. Bendlin, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2019.
2018
Data-Driven Propagation Modeling of PET-Derived Alzheimer's Pathology in a Preclinical Cohort
Seong Jae Hwang, Sathya N. Ravi, Nagesh Adluru, Barbara B. Bendlin, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2018.
2017
Graph Completion: A Generalization of Netflix Prize Problem to Designing Cost Effective Neuroimaging Trials in Preclinical AD
Won Hwa Kim, Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2017.
2016
Multi-Resolution Analysis of DTI-Derived Brain Connectivity and the Influence of PET-Derived Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in a Preclinical Cohort
Seong Jae Hwang, Won Hwa Kim, Barbara B. Bendlin, Nagesh Adluru, Vikas Singh
Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), 2016. [Oral]
patents
Framework for Training Machine-Learned Models on Extremely Large Datasets
Joon Seok Lee, Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Ariel Gordon, Apostol Ivanov Natsev, Seong Jae Hwang
US Patent, 2021, US20210117728A1
Neural Network Architecture with Concurrent Uncertainty Output
Seong Jae Hwang, Ronak Mehta, Vikas Singh
US Patent, 2020, US20200065648A1
Computerized System for Efficient Augmentation of Data Sets
Won Hwa Kim, Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Sterling Johnson, Vikas Singh
US Patent, 2018, US20180113990A1
Fast object tracking framework for sports video recognition
Zheng Han, Xiaowei Dai, Seong Jae Hwang, Jason Fass
US Patent, 2016, US9449230B2