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Computational pathology tasks have some unique characterises such as multi-gigapixel images, tedious and frequently uncertain annotations, and unavailability of large number of cases [13]. To address some of these issues, we present Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Nima Hatami

Positron emission tomography, like many other tomographic imaging modalities, relies on an image reconstruction step to produce cross-sectional images from projection data. Detection and localization of the back-to-back annihilation photons…

Automatic image segmentation becomes very crucial for tumor detection in medical image processing.In general, manual and semi automatic segmentation techniques require more time and knowledge. However these drawbacks had overcome by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 D. Anithadevi , K. Perumal

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) are essential for diagnosing, staging, and monitoring various diseases, particularly cancer. Despite their importance, the use of PET/CT systems is limited by the necessity for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Dac Thai Nguyen , Trung Thanh Nguyen , Huu Tien Nguyen , Thanh Trung Nguyen , Huy Hieu Pham , Thanh Hung Nguyen , Thao Nguyen Truong , Phi Le Nguyen

This paper presents a tumor detection algorithm from mammogram. The proposed system focuses on the solution of two problems. One is how to detect tumors as suspicious regions with a very weak contrast to their background and another is how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Background. Recently, dynamic total-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has become possible due to new scanner devices. While clustering algorithms have been proposed for PET analysis already earlier, there is still little…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-18 Oona Rainio , Maria K. Jaakkola , Riku Klén

The segmentation of medical images is a fundamental step in automated clinical decision support systems. Existing medical image segmentation methods based on supervised deep learning, however, remain problematic because of their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Euijoon Ahn , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

One of the main requirements of tumor extraction is the annotation and segmentation of tumor boundaries correctly. For this purpose, we present a threefold deep learning architecture. First classifiers are implemented with a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , H. N. T. K. Kaldera , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

Prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging provides a tremendously exciting frontier in visualization of prostate cancer (PCa) metastatic lesions. However, accurate…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Amirhosein Toosi , Sara Harsini , François Bénard , Carlos Uribe , Arman Rahmim

Background: A crucial initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis is the segmentation of tumor lesions enabling accurate feature ex-traction, tumor characterization, oncologic staging, and image-based therapy response…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Ludovic Sibille , Xinrui Zhan , Lei Xiang

Rectal tumour segmentation in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is a challenging task, and an automated and consistent method would be highly desirable to improve the modelling and prediction of patient outcomes from tissue contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Benjamin Irving , James M Franklin , Bartlomiej W Papiez , Ewan M Anderson , Ricky A Sharma , Fergus V Gleeson , Sir Michael Brady , Julia A Schnabel

Precise and scalable instance segmentation of cell nuclei is essential for computational pathology, yet gigapixel Whole-Slide Images pose major computational challenges. Existing approaches rely on patch-based processing and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Matěj Pekár , Vít Musil , Rudolf Nenutil , Petr Holub , Tomáš Brázdil

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

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Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, with early detection significantly increasing survival rates. Ultrasound imaging is a critical diagnostic tool that aids in early detection by providing real-time…

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Pancreatic cancer will soon be the second leading cause of cancer-related death in Western society. Imaging techniques such as CT, MRI and ultrasound typically help providing the initial diagnosis, but histopathological assessment is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Pierpaolo Vendittelli , Esther M. M. Smeets , Geert Litjens

We present a fully Bayesian statistical approach to the problem of compartmental modelling in the context of Positron Emission Tomography. We cluster homogeneous region of interest and perform kinetic parameter estimation simultaneously. A…

Tubular structure segmentation in medical images, e.g., segmenting vessels in CT scans, serves as a vital step in the use of computers to aid in screening early stages of related diseases. But automatic tubular structure segmentation in CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yan Wang , Xu Wei , Fengze Liu , Jieneng Chen , Yuyin Zhou , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in most countries of the world. Since prompt diagnosis of tumors can allow oncologists to discern their nature, type and the mode of treatment, tumor detection and segmentation from CT Scan images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Farhanaz Farheen , Md. Salman Shamil , Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which can be used to investigate chemical changes in human biological processes such as cancer development or neurochemical reactions. Most dynamic PET scans are currently analyzed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-11 Ci-Ren Jiang , John A D Aston , Jane-Ling Wang

This paper proposes an efficient solution for tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. We propose to add an atrous convolution layer to the conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) segmentation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem A. Rashwan , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig