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Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

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High-resolution full lung CT scans now enable the detailed segmentation of airway trees up to the 6th branching generation. The airway binary masks display very complex tree structures that may encode biological information relevant to…

Non-invasive detection of cardiovascular disorders from radiology scans requires quantitative image analysis of the heart and its substructures. There are well-established measurements that radiologists use for diseases assessment such as…

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The presence of plaques in the coronary arteries is a major risk to the patients' life. In particular, non-calcified plaques pose a great challenge, as they are harder to detect and more likely to rupture than calcified plaques. While…

With the injection of contrast material into blood vessels, multi-phase contrasted CT images can enhance the visibility of vessel networks in the human body. Reconstructing the 3D geometric morphology of liver vessels from the contrasted CT…

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We propose and demonstrate machine learning algorithms to assess the severity of pulmonary edema in chest x-ray images of congestive heart failure patients. Accurate assessment of pulmonary edema in heart failure is critical when making…

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading causes of death around the world. One of the most common imaging methods for diagnosing this disease is X-ray angiography. Diagnosing using these images is usually challenging due to non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Hamid R. Fazlali , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shahram Shirani , Brahmajee. K. Nallamothu , Kevin R. Ward , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

This study evaluates publicly available deep-learning based lung segmentation models in transplant-eligible patients to determine their performance across disease severity levels, pathology categories, and lung sides, and to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jisoo Lee , Michael R. Harowicz , Yuwen Chen , Hanxue Gu , Isaac S. Alderete , Lin Li , Maciej A. Mazurowski , Matthew G. Hartwig

This study presents FP-PET, a comprehensive approach to medical image segmentation with a focus on CT and PET images. Utilizing a dataset from the AutoPet2023 Challenge, the research employs a variety of machine learning models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Yixin Chen , Ourui Fu , Wenrui Shao , Zhaoheng Xie

X-ray angiography is widely used in cardiac interventions to visualize coronary vessels, assess integrity, detect stenoses and guide treatment. We propose a framework for reconstructing 3D vessel trees from biplanar X-ray images which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ethan Koland , Lin Xi , Nadeev Wijesuriya , YingLiang Ma

Automated segmentation tools often encounter accuracy and adaptability issues when applied to images of different pathology. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of building a workflow to efficiently route images to…

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Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images provides early diagnosis of diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Among these diseases occurrence of Glaucoma is most frequent and has serious ocular…

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The study of the retinal vasculature is a fundamental stage in the screening and diagnosis of many diseases. A complete retinal vascular analysis requires to segment and classify the blood vessels of the retina into arteries and veins…

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Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is an imaging technique that assesses left ventricle function and myocardial perfusion for the detection of coronary artery diseases. Automatic MCE perfusion quantification is challenging and…

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Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

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The extraction of contrast-filled vessels from X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) image sequence has important clinical significance for intuitively diagnosis and therapy. In this study, the XCA image sequence is regarded as a 3D tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Zeyu Fu , Zhuang Fu , Chenzhuo Lu , Jun Yan , Jian Fei , Hui Han

Weakly supervised disease classification of CT imaging suffers from poor localization owing to case-level annotations, where even a positive scan can hold hundreds to thousands of negative slices along multiple planes. Furthermore, although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Anindo Saha , Fakrul I. Tushar , Khrystyna Faryna , Vincent M. D'Anniballe , Rui Hou , Maciej A. Mazurowski , Geoffrey D. Rubin , Joseph Y. Lo

Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…

The morphological structure of left ventricle segmented from cardiac magnetic resonance images can be used to calculate key clinical parameters, and it is of great significance to the accurate and efficient diagnosis of cardiovascular…

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