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A two-step concept for 3D segmentation on 5 abdominal organs inside volumetric CT images is presented. First each relevant organ's volume of interest is extracted as bounding box. The extracted volume acts as input for a second stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Nico Zettler , Andre Mastmeyer

Liver tumor segmentation, dynamic enhancement regression, and classification are critical for clinical assessment and diagnosis. However, no prior work has attempted to achieve these tasks simultaneously in an end-to-end framework,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xiaojiao Xiao , Qinmin Vivian Hu , Tae Hyun Kim , Guanghui Wang

This paper assesses whether using clinical characteristics in addition to imaging can improve automated segmentation of kidney cancer on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). A total of 300 kidney cancer patients with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Christina B. Lund , Bas H. M. van der Velden

As the demand for more descriptive machine learning models grows within medical imaging, bottlenecks due to data paucity will exacerbate. Thus, collecting enough large-scale data will require automated tools to harvest data/label pairs from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Bo Zhou , Adam P. Harrison , Jiawen Yao , Chi-Tung Cheng , Jing Xiao , Chien-Hung Liao , Le Lu

Background: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a deep learning-based automated segmentation method for hepatic anatomy (i.e., parenchyma, tumors, portal vein, hepatic vein and biliary tree) from the hepatobiliary phase of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Karin A. Olthof , Matteo Fusagli , Bianca Güttner , Tiziano Natali , Bram Westerink , Stefanie Speidel , Theo J. M. Ruers , Koert F. D. Kuhlmann , Andrey Zhylka

Automatic segmentation of kidney and kidney tumour in Computed Tomography (CT) images is essential, as it uses less time as compared to the current gold standard of manual segmentation. However, many hospitals are still reliant on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Qi Ming How , Hoi Leong Lee

The clinical treatment of degenerative and developmental lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is different. Computed tomography (CT) is helpful in distinguishing degenerative and developmental LSS due to its advantage in imaging of osseous and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 He Tang , Xiaobing Pei , Shilong Huang , Xin Li , Chao Liu

We demonstrate that AI models can accurately segment liver tumors without the need for manual annotation by using synthetic tumors in CT scans. Our synthetic tumors have two intriguing advantages: (I) realistic in shape and texture, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Qixin Hu , Yixiong Chen , Junfei Xiao , Shuwen Sun , Jieneng Chen , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Reliable and automatic segmentation of lung lobes is important for diagnosis, assessment, and quantification of pulmonary diseases. The existing techniques are prohibitively slow, undesirably rely on prior (airway/vessel) segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran , Ali Hatamizadeh , Shilpa P. Ananth , Xiaowei Ding , Demetri Terzopoulos , Nima Tajbakhsh

There has been a significant increase from 2010 to 2016 in the number of people suffering from spine problems. The automatic image segmentation of the spine obtained from a computed tomography (CT) image is important for diagnosing spine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Malinda Vania , Dawit Mureja , Deukhee Lee

Radiological imaging offers effective measurement of anatomy, which is useful in disease diagnosis and assessment. Previous study has shown that the left atrial wall remodeling can provide information to predict treatment outcome in atrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Shuman Jia , Antoine Despinasse , Zihao Wang , Hervé Delingette , Xavier Pennec , Pierre Jaïs , Hubert Cochet , Maxime Sermesant

Liver cirrhosis, a leading cause of global mortality, requires precise segmentation of ROIs for effective disease monitoring and treatment planning. Existing segmentation models often fail to capture complex feature interactions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Vandan Gorade , Onkar Susladkar , Gorkem Durak , Elif Keles , Ertugrul Aktas , Timurhan Cebeci , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Daniela Ladner , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci

Multi-organ segmentation of 3D medical images is fundamental with meaningful applications in various clinical automation pipelines. Although deep learning has achieved superior performance, the time and memory consumption of segmenting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xueqi Guo , Halid Ziya Yerebakan , Yoshihisa Shinagawa , Kritika Iyer , Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez

Semantic image segmentation plays an important role in modeling patient-specific anatomy. We propose a convolution neural network, called Kid-Net, along with a training schema to segment kidney vessels: artery, vein and collecting system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ahmed Taha , Pechin Lo , Junning Li , Tao Zhao

Accurate segmentation of organs from abdominal CT scans is essential for clinical applications such as diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient monitoring. To handle challenges of heterogeneity in organ shapes, sizes, and complex…

Segmentation of multiple organs-at-risk (OARs) is essential for radiation therapy treatment planning and other clinical applications. We developed an Automated deep Learning-based Abdominal Multi-Organ segmentation (ALAMO) framework based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Yuhua Chen , Dan Ruan , Jiayu Xiao , Lixia Wang , Bin Sun , Rola Saouaf , Wensha Yang , Debiao Li , Zhaoyang Fan

Manually tracing regions of interest (ROIs) within the liver is the de facto standard method for measuring liver attenuation on computed tomography (CT) in diagnosing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, manual tracing is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Yuankai Huo , James G. Terry , Jiachen Wang , Sangeeta Nair , Thomas A. Lasko , Barry I. Freedman , J. Jeffery Carr , Bennett A. Landman

We present an automatic COVID1-19 diagnosis framework from lung CT-scan slice images. In this framework, the slice images of a CT-scan volume are first proprocessed using segmentation techniques to filter out images of closed lung, and to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Weijun Tan , Jingfeng Liu

For 3D medical image (e.g. CT and MRI) segmentation, the difficulty of segmenting each slice in a clinical case varies greatly. Previous research on volumetric medical image segmentation in a slice-by-slice manner conventionally use the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenxuan Wang , Chen Chen , Jing Wang , Sen Zha , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Liver cancer has a high incidence rate, but primary healthcare settings often lack experienced doctors. Advances in large models and AI technologies offer potential assistance. This work aims to address limitations in liver cancer diagnosis…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Xuzhou Wu , Guangxin Li , Xing Wang , Zeyu Xu , Yingni Wang , Jianming Xian , Xueyu Wang , Gong Li , Kehong Yuan