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Three-dimensional Ultrasound image segmentation methods are surveyed in this paper. The focus of this report is to investigate applications of these techniques and a review of the original ideas and concepts. Although many two-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Mohammad Hamed Mozaffari , WonSook Lee

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

In the last decade, research on artificial intelligence has seen rapid growth with deep learning models, especially in the field of medical image segmentation. Various studies demonstrated that these models have powerful prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Dominik Müller , Iñaki Soto-Rey , Frank Kramer

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in computational vision and medical imaging. Designing a generic, automated method that works for various objects and imaging modalities is a formidable task. Instead of proposing a new specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Liangjia Zhu , Peter Karasev , Ivan Kolesov , Romeil Sandhu , Allen Tannenbaum

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maciej A. Mazurowski , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Jichen Yang , Nicholas Konz , Yixin Zhang

Characteristics such as low contrast and significant organ shape variations are often exhibited in medical images. The improvement of segmentation performance in medical imaging is limited by the generally insufficient adaptive capabilities…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Hejun Huang , Zuguo Chen , Ying Zou , Ming Lu , Chaoyang Chen

Medical imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of various medical conditions, with radiology and pathology heavily reliant on precise image segmentation. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Amin Ranem , Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The task of medical image segmentation commonly involves an image reconstruction step to convert acquired raw data to images before any analysis. However, noises, artifacts and loss of information due to the reconstruction process are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Qiaoying Huang , Xiao Chen , Dimitris Metaxas , Mariappan S. Nadar

Image segmentation is an important task in many medical applications. Methods based on convolutional neural networks attain state-of-the-art accuracy; however, they typically rely on supervised training with large labeled datasets. Labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Amy Zhao , Guha Balakrishnan , Frédo Durand , John V. Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for medical image segmentation. In most studies, only the output layer is exploited to compute the final segmentation results and the hidden representations of the deep learned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Sheng He , Yanfang Feng , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring. Traditional approaches typically strive to tackle all medical image segmentation scenarios via one-time learning. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhaori Liu , Mengyang Li , Hu Han , Enli Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Zhiming Zhao

When developing deep neural networks for segmenting intraoperative ultrasound images, several practical issues are encountered frequently, such as the presence of ultrasound frames that do not contain regions of interest and the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liam F Chalcroft , Jiongqi Qu , Sophie A Martin , Iani JMB Gayo , Giulio V Minore , Imraj RD Singh , Shaheer U Saeed , Qianye Yang , Zachary MC Baum , Andre Altmann , Yipeng Hu

The ability to quickly annotate medical imaging data plays a critical role in training deep learning frameworks for segmentation. Doing so for image volumes or video sequences is even more pressing as annotating these is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Laurent Lejeune , Raphael Sznitman

Most medical image lesion segmentation methods rely on hand-crafted accurate annotations of the original image for supervised learning. Recently, a series of weakly supervised or unsupervised methods have been proposed to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jiawei Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yuxuan Lei , Lihua Zhang

Background: In the field of radiology and radiotherapy, accurate delineation of tissues and organs plays a crucial role in both diagnostics and therapeutics. While the gold standard remains expert-driven manual segmentation, many automatic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Szuzina Fazekas , Bettina Katalin Budai , Viktor Bérczi , Pál Maurovich-Horvat , Zsolt Vizi

3D image segmentation is a recent and crucial step in many medical analysis and recognition schemes. In fact, it represents a relevant research subject and a fundamental challenge due to its importance and influence. This paper provides a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Omar Boudraa

Medical image segmentation is one of the most challenging tasks in medical image analysis and has been widely developed for many clinical applications. Most of the existing metrics have been first designed for natural images and then…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Vidhiwar Singh Rathour , Kashu Yamakazi , T. Hoang Ngan Le

A wide range of techniques can be considered for segmentation of images of nanostructured surfaces. Manually segmenting these images is time-consuming and results in a user-dependent segmentation bias, while there is currently no consensus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Steff Farley , Jo E. A. Hodgkinson , Oliver M. Gordon , Joanna Turner , Andrea Soltoggio , Philip J. Moriarty , Eugenie Hunsicker

Interactive segmentation is a promising strategy for building robust, generalisable algorithms for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, inconsistent and clinically unrealistic evaluation hinders fair comparison and misrepresents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Parhom Esmaeili , Virginia Fernandez , Pedro Borges , Eli Gibson , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso