no code implementations • 11 Dec 2023 • Saeejith Nair, Chi-en Amy Tai, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong
As the largest open-source synthetic food dataset, NV-Synth highlights the value of physics-based simulations for enabling scalable and controllable generation of diverse photorealistic meal images to overcome data limitations and drive advancements in automated dietary assessment using computer vision.
no code implementations • 6 Dec 2023 • Olivia Markham, Yuhao Chen, Chi-en Amy Tai, Alexander Wong
To address these limitations, we introduce FoodFusion, a Latent Diffusion model engineered specifically for the faithful synthesis of realistic food images from textual descriptions.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • Aditya Sridhar, Chi-en Amy Tai, Hayden Gunraj, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong
In Canada, prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men and accounted for 20% of new cancer cases for this demographic in 2022.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2023 • Yifan Wu, Hayden Gunraj, Chi-en Amy Tai, Alexander Wong
The global ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic remain significant, exerting persistent pressure on nations even three years after its initial outbreak.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Elizabeth Janes, Chris Czarnecki, Alexander Wong
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States and is estimated to affect one in five Americans.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Hayden Gunraj, Chi-en Amy Tai, Alexander Wong
The recent introduction of synthetic correlated diffusion (CDI$^s$) imaging has demonstrated significant potential in the realm of clinical decision support for prostate cancer (PCa).
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Saeejith Nair, Olivia Markham, Matthew Keller, Yifan Wu, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong
Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Yifan Wu, Olivia Markham, Krish Parmar, Pengcheng Xi, Heather Keller, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wong
Recent work has focused on using computer vision and machine learning to automatically estimate dietary intake from food images, but the lack of comprehensive datasets with diverse viewpoints, modalities and food annotations hinders the accuracy and realism of such methods.
1 code implementation • 12 Apr 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Hayden Gunraj, Alexander Wong
The prevalence of breast cancer continues to grow, affecting about 300, 000 females in the United States in 2023.
1 code implementation • 12 Apr 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Hayden Gunraj, Alexander Wong
Recently, a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) called synthetic correlated diffusion (CDI$^s$) imaging was introduced and showed considerable promise for clinical decision support for cancers such as prostate cancer when compared to current gold-standard MRI techniques.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Jason Li, Sriram Kumar, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong
With the growth in capabilities of generative models, there has been growing interest in using photo-realistic renders of common 3D food items to improve downstream tasks such as food printing, nutrition prediction, or management of food wastage.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2023 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Mattie Kerrigan, Yuhao Chen, Saeejith Nair, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong
Unlike existing datasets, a collection of 3D models with nutritional information allow for view synthesis to create an infinite number of 2D images for any given viewpoint/camera angle along with the associated nutritional information.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2022 • Chi-en Amy Tai, Hayden Gunraj, Nedim Hodzic, Nic Flanagan, Ali Sabri, Alexander Wong
Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in women in Canada and the United States, representing over 25\% of all new female cancer cases.