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Here we present a method for the simultaneous segmentation of white matter lesions and normal-appearing neuroanatomical structures from multi-contrast brain MRI scans of multiple sclerosis patients. The method integrates a novel model for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Stefano Cerri , Oula Puonti , Dominik S. Meier , Jens Wuerfel , Mark Mühlau , Hartwig R. Siebner , Koen Van Leemput

Purpose: Multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis requires accurate assessment of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and ventricular changes on brain MRI. Current methods treat these structures independently, struggle to differentiate normal from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Mahdi Bashiri Bawil , Mousa Shamsi , Abolhassan Shakeri Bavil

Lesion segmentation is a core task for quantitative analysis of MRI scans of Multiple Sclerosis patients. The recent success of deep learning techniques in a variety of medical image analysis applications has renewed community interest in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Huahong Zhang , Ipek Oguz

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

Target imbalance affects the performance of recent deep learning methods in many medical image segmentation tasks. It is a twofold problem: class imbalance - positive class (lesion) size compared to negative class (non-lesion) size; lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Boris Shirokikh , Alexey Shevtsov , Anvar Kurmukov , Alexandra Dalechina , Egor Krivov , Valery Kostjuchenko , Andrey Golanov , Mikhail Belyaev

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Quantitative MRI has huge potential to provide intrinsic and normative values of tissue properties useful for diagnosis, prognosis and ultimately clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Haykel Snoussi , Julien Cohen-Adad , Benoit Combes , Elise Bannier , Slimane Tounekti , Anne Kerbrat , Christian Barillot , Emmanuel Caruyer

Super-resolution (SR) for image enhancement has great importance in medical image applications. Broadly speaking, there are two types of SR, one requires multiple low resolution (LR) images from different views of the same object to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Jin Zhu , Guang Yang , Pietro Lio

Segmentation of both large and small white matter hyperintensities/lesions in brain MR images is a challenging task which has drawn much attention in recent years. We propose a multi-scale aggregation model framework to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Hongwei Li , Jianguo Zhang , Mark Muehlau , Jan Kirschke , Bjoern Menze

Automated segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions using multicontrast magnetic resonance (MR) images improves efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation, with deep learning (DL) methods achieving state-of-the-art…

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. Understanding multiple sclerosis progression and identifying the implicated brain structures is crucial for personalized treatment decisions.…

Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) is a major method for studying brain-behavior relationships that leverages modern neuroimaging analysis techniques to build on the classic approach of examining the relationship between location of…

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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological condition characterized by the development of lesions in the white matter of the brain. T2-fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Jueqi Wang , Derek Berger , Erin Mazerolle , Jean-Alexis Delamer , Jacob Levman

In clinical applications, neural networks must focus on and highlight the most important parts of an input image. Soft-Attention mechanism enables a neural network toachieve this goal. This paper investigates the effectiveness of…

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Our goal is to bridge human and machine intelligence in melanoma detection. We develop a classification system exploiting a combination of visual pre-processing, deep learning, and ensembling for providing explanations to experts and to…

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Segmentation of white matter lesions and deep grey matter structures is an important task in the quantification of magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis. In this paper we explore segmentation solutions based on convolutional…

Automating Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation would be of great benefit in initial diagnosis as well as monitoring disease progression. Deep learning based segmentation models perform well in many domains, but the state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Liviu Badea , Maria Popa

Automatic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation using multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) images provides improved efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation. Current state-of-the-art automatic MS lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Blake E. Dewey , Samuel W. Remedios , Dzung L. Pham , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

Anomaly detection and localization in medical imaging remain critical challenges in healthcare. This paper introduces Spatial-MSMA (Multiscale Score Matching Analysis), a novel unsupervised method for anomaly localization in volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ahsan Mahmood , Junier Oliva , Martin Styner

Supervised machine learning algorithms, especially in the medical domain, are affected by considerable ambiguity in expert markings. In this study we address the case where the experts' opinion is obtained as a distribution over the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Eytan Kats , Jacob Goldberger , Hayit Greenspan

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease developed in human brain and spinal cord, which can cause permanent damage or deterioration of the nerves. The severity of MS disease is monitored by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS),…

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