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Malaria, a life-threatening disease, infects millions of people every year throughout the world demanding faster diagnosis for proper treatment before any damages occur. In this paper, an end-to-end deep learning-based approach is proposed…

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White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) are key neuroradiological markers of small vessel disease present in brain MRI. Assessment of WMH is important in research and clinics. However, WMH are challenging to segment due to their high…

Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease is critical for effective clinical intervention, particularly in distinguishing it from Mild Cognitive Impairment, a prodromal stage marked by subtle structural changes. In this study, we…

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An ensemble method that fuses the output decision vectors of multiple feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) to solve the image classification problem is proposed in this work. To enhance the performance of the…

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A large number of mathematical models have been proposed to describe the measured signal in diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and infer properties about the white matter microstructure. However, a head-to-head…

Vision impairment due to pathological damage of the retina can largely be prevented through periodic screening using fundus color imaging. However the challenge with large scale screening is the inability to exhaustively detect fine blood…

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Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from undersampled measurements exploit prior information to compensate for missing k-space data. Deep learning (DL) provides a powerful framework for extracting such information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Kerem C. Tezcan , Christian F. Baumgartner , Roger Luechinger , Klaas P. Pruessmann , Ender Konukoglu

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are bright regions on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and are associated with cerebrovascular pathology and neurodegeneration, including myelin loss. While Luxol Fast Blue…

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

Image restoration has experienced significant advancements due to the development of deep learning. Nevertheless, it encounters challenges related to ill-posed problems, resulting in deviations between single model predictions and…

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To improve patient survival and treatment outcomes, early diagnosis of brain tumors is an essential task. It is a difficult task to evaluate the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images manually. Thus, there is a need for digital methods for…

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Deep fully convolutional neural network (FCN) based architectures have shown great potential in medical image segmentation. However, such architectures usually have millions of parameters and inadequate number of training samples leading to…

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Breast density assessment is a crucial component of mammographic interpretation, with high breast density (BI-RADS categories C and D) representing both a significant risk factor for developing breast cancer and a technical challenge for…

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Brain tumors remain a critical global health challenge, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques and treatment methodologies. A tumor or its recurrence often needs to be identified in imaging studies and differentiated from…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging modality. However, due to the limitations in hardware, scan time, and throughput, it is often clinically challenging to obtain high-quality MR images. The super-resolution…

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With noisy environment caused by fluoresence and additive white noise as well as complicated spectrum fingerprints, the identification of complex mixture materials remains a major challenge in Raman spectroscopy application. In this paper,…

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White Matter Injury (WMI) is the most prevalent brain injury in the preterm neonate leading to developmental deficits. However, detecting WMI in Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of preterm neonate brains using traditional WM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Subhayan Mukherjee , Irene Cheng , Steven Miller , Jessie Guo , Vann Chau , Anup Basu

Accurate segmentation of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) is crucial for clinical decision-making, particularly in the context of multiple sclerosis. However, domain shifts, such as variations in MRI machine types or acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Franco Matzkin , Agostina Larrazabal , Diego H Milone , Jose Dolz , Enzo Ferrante

Subtle changes in white matter (WM) microstructure have been associated with normal aging and neurodegeneration. To study these associations in more detail, it is highly important that the WM tracts can be accurately and reproducibly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Bo Li , Marius de Groot , Rebecca M. E. Steketee , Rozanna Meijboom , Marion Smits , Meike W. Vernooij , M. Arfan Ikram , Jiren Liu , Wiro J. Niessen , Esther E. Bron