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Removing skull artifacts from functional magnetic images (fMRI) is a well understood and frequently encountered problem. Because the fMRI field has grown mostly due to human studies, many new tools were developed to handle human data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-09 Sidney Pontes-Filho , Annelene Gulden Dahl , Stefano Nichele , Gustavo Borges Moreno e Mello

Neonatal brain segmentation in magnetic resonance (MR) is a challenging problem due to poor image quality and low contrast between white and gray matter regions. Most existing approaches for this problem are based on multi-atlas label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jing Yuan , Christian Desrosiers

Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in several brain analysis tasks, such as cortical surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Matthew Sinclair , Antonios Makropoulos , Joseph Hajnal , A. David Edwards , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Brain extraction is a fundamental step for most brain imaging studies. In this paper, we investigate the problem of skull stripping and propose complementary segmentation networks (CompNets) to accurately extract the brain from T1-weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Raunak Dey , Yi Hong

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Jimit Doshi , Guray Erus , Mohamad Habes , Christos Davatzikos

Brain image segmentation is used for visualizing and quantifying anatomical structures of the brain. We present an automated ap-proach using 2D deep residual dilated networks which captures rich context information of different tissues for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Hongwei Li , Andrii Zhygallo , Bjoern Menze

Whole brain segmentation from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a prerequisite for most morphological analyses, but is computationally intense and can therefore delay the availability of image markers after scan acquisition. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Abhijit Guha Roy , Sailesh Conjeti , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

Fetal head segmentation is a crucial step in measuring the fetal head circumference (HC) during gestation, an important biometric in obstetrics for monitoring fetal growth. However, manual biometry generation is time-consuming and results…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

We propose an unsupervised deep learning method for atlas based registration to achieve segmentation and spatial alignment of the embryonic brain in a single framework. Our approach consists of two sequential networks with a specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Wietske A. P. Bastiaansen , Melek Rousian , Régine P. M. Steegers-Theunissen , Wiro J. Niessen , Anton Koning , Stefan Klein

Accurate automatic tissue segmentation in fetal brain MRI is a crucial step in clinical diagnosis but remains challenging, particularly due to the dynamically changing anatomy and tissue contrast during fetal development. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Haoan Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Xinyi Xu , Yao Shen , Jiwei Sun , Cong Sun , Guangbin Wang , Zhaopeng Cui , Dan Wu

Segmenting a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important pre-processing step for analytic procedures and subsequent inferences about longitudinal tissue changes. Manual segmentation defines the current gold standard in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Alex Fedorov , Jeremy Johnson , Eswar Damaraju , Alexei Ozerin , Vince Calhoun , Sergey Plis

Manual segmentation of rodent brain lesions from magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is an arduous, time-consuming and subjective task that is highly important in pre-clinical research. Several automatic methods have been developed for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-26 Juan Miguel Valverde , Artem Shatillo , Riccardo de Feo , Olli Gröhn , Alejandra Sierra , Jussi Tohka

Purpose: The goal of this work was to develop a deep network for whole-head segmentation including clinical MRIs with abnormal anatomy, and compile the first public benchmark dataset for this purpose. We collected 98 MRIs with volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Andrew M Birnbaum , Adam Buchwald , Peter Turkeltaub , Adam Jacks , George Carra , Shreya Kannana , Yu Huang , Abhisheck Datta , Lucas C Parra , Lukas A Hirsch

Skullstripping is defined as the task of segmenting brain tissue from a full head magnetic resonance image~(MRI). It is a critical component in neuroimage processing pipelines. Downstream deformable registration and whole brain segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Amod Jog , P. Ellen Grant , Joseph L. Jacobson , Andre van der Kouwe , Ernesta M. Meintjes , Bruce Fischl , Lilla Zöllei

Whole brain segmentation is an important neuroimaging task that segments the whole brain volume into anatomically labeled regions-of-interest. Convolutional neural networks have demonstrated good performance in this task. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Yeshu Li , Jonathan Cui , Yilun Sheng , Xiao Liang , Jingdong Wang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Fetal brain MRI is useful for diagnosing brain abnormalities but is challenged by fetal motion. The current protocol for T2-weighted fetal brain MRI is not robust to motion so image volumes are degraded by inter- and intra- slice motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Junshen Xu , Sayeri Lala , Borjan Gagoski , Esra Abaci Turk , P. Ellen Grant , Polina Golland , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in MRI medical image analysis and is often the first and the most critical step in many clinical applications. In brain MRI analysis, head segmentation is commonly used for measuring and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Haleh Akrami , Wenhui Cui , Anand A Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

Many functional and structural neuroimaging studies call for accurate morphometric segmentation of different brain structures starting from image intensity values of MRI scans. Current automatic (multi-) atlas-based segmentation strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Dennis Bontempi , Sergio Benini , Alberto Signoroni , Michele Svanera , Lars Muckli

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

The performance of deep neural networks typically increases with the number of training images. However, not all images have the same importance towards improved performance and robustness. In fetal brain MRI, abnormalities exacerbate the…