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Medical imaging has been employed to support medical diagnosis and treatment. It may also provide crucial information to surgeons to facilitate optimal surgical preplanning and perioperative management. Essentially, semi-automatic organ and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 K. E. Sengun , Y. T. Cetin , M. S Guzel , S. Can , E. Bostanci

Automatic segmentation of head and neck tumors plays an important role in radiomics analysis. In this short paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method for head and neck tumors from PET and CT images based on the combination of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Jun Ma , Xiaoping Yang

Automated segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an important step in quantifying the tumor's morphometrical details to monitor the progression of the disease and accurately compare decisions regarding the kidney tumor treatment.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Andriy Myronenko , Ali Hatamizadeh

Automatic liver segmentation in 3D medical images is essential in many clinical applications, such as pathological diagnosis of hepatic diseases, surgical planning, and postoperative assessment. However, it is still a very challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Dong Yang , Daguang Xu , S. Kevin Zhou , Bogdan Georgescu , Mingqing Chen , Sasa Grbic , Dimitris Metaxas , Dorin Comaniciu

A cascade of fully convolutional neural networks is proposed to segment multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with brain tumor into background and three hierarchical regions: whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor core. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Brain tumor segmentation plays an essential role in medical image analysis. In recent studies, deep convolution neural networks (DCNNs) are extremely powerful to tackle tumor segmentation tasks. We propose in this paper a novel training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Hieu T. Nguyen , Tung T. Le , Thang V. Nguyen , Nhan T. Nguyen

Segmentation of head and neck (H\&N) tumours and prediction of patient outcome are crucial for patient's disease diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Current developments of robust deep learning models are hindered by the lack of large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Emmanuelle Bourigault , Daniel R. McGowan , Abolfazl Mehranian , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Accurate delineation of pancreatic tumors is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and outcome assessment, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to anatomical variability and limited dataset availability. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Keshav Jha , William Sharp , Dominic LaBella

Due to cellular heterogeneity, cell nuclei classification, segmentation, and detection from pathological images are challenging tasks. In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) approaches have been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) scans use contrast agents to highlight different anatomical structures within the body to improve the probability of identifying and detecting anatomical structures of interest and abnormalities such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Abdullah F. Al-Battal , Soan T. M. Duong , Van Ha Tang , Quang Duc Tran , Steven Q. H. Truong , Chien Phan , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Yngve Mardal Moe , Aurora Rosvoll Groendahl , Martine Mulstad , Oliver Tomic , Ulf Indahl , Einar Dale , Eirik Malinen , Cecilia Marie Futsaether

Automatic liver segmentation from CT volumes is a crucial prerequisite yet challenging task for computer-aided hepatic disease diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we present a novel 3D deeply supervised network (3D DSN) to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Qi Dou , Hao Chen , Yueming Jin , Lequan Yu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Deep neural networks have demonstrated very promising performance on accurate segmentation of challenging organs (e.g., pancreas) in abdominal CT and MRI scans. The current deep learning approaches conduct pancreas segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Yuanpu Xie , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

Accurate liver and lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images are highly demanded in clinical practice for assisting the diagnosis and assessment of hepatic tumor disease. However, automatic liver and lesion segmentation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Liping Zhang , Simon Chun-Ho Yu

Segmentation of histopathology sections is an ubiquitous requirement in digital pathology and due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over standard image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Philipp Kainz , Michael Pfeiffer , Martin Urschler

Automated segmentation proves to be a valuable tool in precisely detecting tumors within medical images. The accurate identification and segmentation of tumor types hold paramount importance in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Mariam Aljuboory , Numan Saeed , Ikboljon Sobirov , Mohammad Yaqub

As a basic task in computer vision, semantic segmentation can provide fundamental information for object detection and instance segmentation to help the artificial intelligence better understand real world. Since the proposal of fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jiachi Zhang , Xiaolei Shen , Tianqi Zhuo , Hong Zhou

Due to the fact that pancreas is an abdominal organ with very large variations in shape and size, automatic and accurate pancreas segmentation can be challenging for medical image analysis. In this work, we proposed a fully automated two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Ningning Zhao , Nuo Tong , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng