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Precise segmentation and anatomical identification of the vertebrae provides the basis for automatic analysis of the spine, such as detection of vertebral compression fractures or other abnormalities. Most dedicated spine CT and MR scans as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Nikolas Lessmann , Bram van Ginneken , Pim A. de Jong , Ivana Išgum

Assessing cancer progression in liver CT scans is a clinical challenge, requiring a comparison of scans at different times for the same patient. Practitioners must identify existing tumors, compare them with prior exams, identify new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Walid Yassine , Martin Charachon , Céline Hudelot , Roberto Ardon

Accurate segmentation of the liver is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of disease. Automated segmentation is an important application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of liver disease. In recent years, automated processing of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Zhiqi Lee , Sumin Qi , Chongchong Fan , Ziwei Xie

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Automated segmentation of left ventricular cavity (LVC) in temporal cardiac image sequences (multiple time points) is a fundamental requirement for quantitative analysis of its structural and functional changes. Deep learning based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Yuyu Guo , Lei Bi , Zhengbin Zhu , David Dagan Feng , Ruiyan Zhang , Qian Wang , Jinman Kim

Lung segmentation in computerized tomography (CT) images is an important procedure in various lung disease diagnosis. Most of the current lung segmentation approaches are performed through a series of procedures with manually empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Jiaxing Tan , Longlong Jing , Yumei Huo , Yingli Tian , Oguz Akin

The early detection, diagnosis and monitoring of liver cancer progression can be achieved with the precise delineation of metastatic tumours. However, accurate automated segmentation remains challenging due to the presence of noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Samuel Kadoury , Eugene Vorontsov , An Tang

Recently, machine learning has been successfully applied to model-based left ventricle (LV) segmentation. The general framework involves two stages, which starts with LV localization and is followed by boundary delineation. Both are driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Peng Sun , Haoyin Zhou , Devon Lundine , James K. Min , Guanglei Xiong

Robotic surgery offers enhanced precision and adaptability, paving the way for automation in surgical interventions. Cholecystectomy, the gallbladder removal, is particularly well-suited for automation due to its standardized procedural…

Medical image segmentation has become an essential technique in clinical and research-oriented applications. Because manual segmentation methods are tedious, and fully automatic segmentation lacks the flexibility of human intervention or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Kevin Karsch , Qing He , Ye Duan

For compression fracture detection and evaluation, an automatic X-ray image segmentation technique that combines deep-learning and level-set methods is proposed. Automatic segmentation is much more difficult for X-ray images than for CT or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Kang Cheol Kim , Hyun Cheol Cho , Tae Jun Jang , Jong Mun Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Gastro-Intestinal Tract cancer is considered a fatal malignant condition of the organs in the GI tract. Due to its fatality, there is an urgent need for medical image segmentation techniques to segment organs to reduce the treatment time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Praneeth Nemani , Satyanarayana Vollala

In this work it is proposed a medical image segmentation pipeline for accurate bone segmentation from CT imaging. It is a two-step methodology, with a pre-segmentation step and a segmentation refinement step. First, the user performs a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Manuel Pinheiro , J. L. Alves

This report describes the design, implementation, evaluation and original enhancements to the Live-Wire method for 2D and 3D image segmentation. Live-Wire 2D employs a semi-automatic paradigm; the user is asked to select a few boundary…

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The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

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In clinical practice, regions of interest in medical imaging often need to be identified through a process of precise image segmentation. The quality of this image segmentation step critically affects the subsequent clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 João B. S. Carvalho , João A. Santinha , Đorđe Miladinović , Joachim M. Buhmann

Colon Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. The treatment is planned to depend on the grade or stage of cancer. One of the preconditions for grading of colon cancer is to segment the glandular structures of tissues. Manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Rupali Khatun , Soumick Chatterjee

Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Xiao Han

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) images provide crucial complementary information for accurate liver tumor segmentation (LiTS). State-of-the-art multi-phase LiTS methods usually fused cross-phase features through phase-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Yue Zhang , Chengtao Peng , Liying Peng , Huimin Huang , Ruofeng Tong , Lanfen Lin , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen , Qingqing Chen , Hongjie Hu , Zhiyi Peng

The technology of image segmentation is widely used in medical image processing, face recognition pedestrian detection, etc. The current image segmentation techniques include region-based segmentation, edge detection segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Song Yuheng , Yan Hao