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The preoperative planning of liver surgery relies on Couinaud segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images, to reduce the risk of bleeding and guide the resection procedure. Using 3D point-based representations, rather than voxelizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaotong Zhang , Alexander Broersen , Gonnie CM van Erp , Silvia L. Pintea , Jouke Dijkstra

Purpose: Lung nodule segmentation, i.e., the algorithmic delineation of the lung nodule surface, is a fundamental component of computational nodule analysis pipelines. We propose a new method for segmentation that is a machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Matthew C Hancock , Jerry F Magnan

In this work, the possibilities for segmentation of cells from their background and each other in digital image were tested, combined and improoved. Lot of images with young, adult and mixture cells were able to prove the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Jan Urban

Model-based reconstruction employing the time separation technique (TST) was found to improve dynamic perfusion imaging of the liver using C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). To apply TST using prior knowledge extracted from CT…

Learning to segmentation without large-scale samples is an inherent capability of human. Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) performs the significant zero-shot image segmentation, attracting considerable attention from the computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chuanfei Hu , Tianyi Xia , Shenghong Ju , Xinde Li

Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Raunak Dey , Yi Hong

In this paper, a novel framework for automated liver segmentation via a level set formulation is presented. A sparse representation of both global (region-based) and local (voxel-wise) image information is embedded in a level set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Saif Dawood Salman Al-Shaikhli , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn

Primary tumors have a high likelihood of developing metastases in the liver and early detection of these metastases is crucial for patient outcome. We propose a method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect liver metastases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Mariëlle J. A. Jansen , Hugo J. Kuijf , Maarten Niekel , Wouter B. Veldhuis , Frank J. Wessels , Max A. Viergever , Josien P. W. Pluim

Various approaches for liver segmentation in CT have been proposed: Besides statistical shape models, which played a major role in this research area, novel approaches on the basis of convolutional neural networks have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Hans Meine , Grzegorz Chlebus , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Itaru Endo , Andrea Schenk

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical image processing, essential for segmenting organs or lesions such as tumors. In this study we aim to improve automated segmentation in CBCTs through multi-task learning. To evaluate effects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian Ernst Tschuchnig , Julia Coste-Marin , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

Organ segmentation is a fundamental task in medical imaging since it is useful for many clinical automation pipelines. However, some tasks do not require full segmentation. Instead, a classifier can identify the selected organ without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Halid Ziya Yerebakan , Yoshihisa Shinagawa , Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Segmentation of biomedical images can assist radiologists to make a better diagnosis and take decisions faster by helping in the detection of abnormalities, such as tumors. Manual or semi-automated segmentation, however, can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Dhanunjaya Mitta , Soumick Chatterjee , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger

An accurate steatosis quantification with pathology tissue samples is of high clinical importance. However, such pathology measurement is manually made in most clinical practices, subject to severe reader variability due to large sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Mousumi Roy , Fusheng Wang , George Teodoro , Miriam B Vos , Alton Brad Farris , Jun Kong

PET and CT are two modalities widely used in medical image analysis. Accurately detecting and segmenting lymphomas from these two imaging modalities are critical tasks for cancer staging and radiotherapy planning. However, this task is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Ling Huang , Su Ruan , Pierre Decazes , Thierry Denoeux

Automatic image segmentation becomes very crucial for tumor detection in medical image processing.In general, manual and semi automatic segmentation techniques require more time and knowledge. However these drawbacks had overcome by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 D. Anithadevi , K. Perumal

We propose a novel procedure to improve liver and lesion segmentation from CT scans for U-Net based models. Our method extends standard segmentation pipelines to focus on higher target recall or reduction of noisy false-positive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Karsten Roth , Jürgen Hesser , Tomasz Konopczyński

To extract liver from medical images is a challenging task due to similar intensity values of liver with adjacent organs, various contrast levels, various noise associated with medical images and irregular shape of liver. To address these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Muhammad Islam , Kaleem Nawaz Khan , Muhammad Salman Khan

We propose TG-LMM (Text-Guided Large Multi-Modal Model), a novel approach that leverages textual descriptions of organs to enhance segmentation accuracy in medical images. Existing medical image segmentation methods face several challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yihao Zhao , Enhao Zhong , Cuiyun Yuan , Yang Li , Man Zhao , Chunxia Li , Jun Hu , Chenbin Liu