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Objective: Vessel-wall-volume (VWV) and localized vessel-wall-thickness (VWT) measured from 3D ultrasound (US) carotid images are sensitive to anti-atherosclerotic effects of medical/dietary treatments. VWV and VWT measurements require the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Mingjie Jiang , Yuan Zhao , Bernard Chiu

Segmentation of the Left ventricle (LV) is a crucial step for quantitative measurements such as area, volume, and ejection fraction. However, the automatic LV segmentation in 2D echocardiographic images is a challenging task due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Shakiba Moradi , Mostafa Ghelich-Oghli , Azin Alizadehasl , Isaac Shiri , Niki Oveisi , Mehrdad Oveisi , Majid Maleki , Jan Dhooge

The traditional interpretation of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) images during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is time-intensive and inconsistent, relying heavily on physician expertise. Regulatory restrictions and privacy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Chiu-Han Hsiao , Kai Chen , Tsung-Yu Peng , Wei-Chieh Huang

Accurate identification of arteries and veins in ultrasound images is crucial for vascular examinations and interventions in robotics-assisted surgeries. However, current methods for ultrasound vessel segmentation face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Yimeng Geng , Gaofeng Meng , Mingcong Chen , Guanglin Cao , Mingyang Zhao , Jianbo Zhao , Hongbin Liu

Nonunion is one of the challenges faced by orthopedics clinics for the technical difficulties and high costs in photographing interosseous capillaries. Segmenting vessels and filling capillaries are critical in understanding the obstacles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Runpeng Hou , Ziyuan Ye , Chengyu Yang , Linhao Fu , Chao Liu , Quanying Liu

Left ventricle (LV) segmentation is critical for clinical quantification and diagnosis of cardiac images. In this work, we propose two novel deep learning architectures called LNU-Net and IBU-Net for left ventricle segmentation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Wenhui Chu , Nikolaos V. Tsekos

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Laibacher , Tillman Weyde , Sepehr Jalali

Automatic segmentation of vertebral bodies (VBs) and intervertebral discs (IVDs) in 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images is vital in diagnosing and treating spinal diseases. However, segmenting the VBs and IVDs simultaneously is not trivial.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Meiyan Huang , Shuoling Zhou , Xiumei Chen , Haoran Lai , Qianjin Feng

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

Segmenting of clinically important retinal blood vessels into arteries and veins is a prerequisite for retinal vessel analysis. Such analysis can provide potential insights and bio-markers for identifying and diagnosing various retinal eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sharan SK , Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman , Lakshmi Priya A

Accurate vascular segmentation is essential for coronary visualization and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. This task involves the extraction of sparse tree-like vascular branches from the volumetric space. However, existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Bowen Liu , Chunlei Meng , Wei Lin , Hongda Zhang , Ziqing Zhou , Zhongxue Gan , Chun Ouyang

CNNs have been widely applied for medical image analysis. However, limited memory capacity is one of the most common drawbacks of processing high-resolution 3D volumetric data. 3D volumes are usually cropped or downsized first before…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Nyothiri Aung , Tahar Kechadi , Liming Chen , Sahraoui Dhelim

Purpose Automated segmentation of anatomical structures in medical image analysis is a prerequisite for autonomous diagnosis as well as various computer and robot aided interventions. Recent methods based on deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Max-Heinrich Laves , Jens Bicker , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

Ultrasound imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis of vascular lesions. Accurate segmentation of the vascular wall is important for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases. However, existing methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Qinghua Huang , Lizhi Jia , Guanqing Ren , Xiaoyi Wang , Chunying Liu

Solving variational image segmentation problems with hidden physics is often expensive and requires different algorithms and manually tunes model parameter. The deep learning methods based on the U-Net structure have obtained outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hui Zhu , Shi Shu , Jianping Zhang

Automatic and accurate whole-heart and great vessel segmentation from 3D cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in the computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. However, this task is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Lequan Yu , Jie-Zhi Cheng , Qi Dou , Xin Yang , Hao Chen , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

With the rapid development of deep learning, CNN-based U-shaped networks have succeeded in medical image segmentation and are widely applied for various tasks. However, their limitations in capturing global features hinder their performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Xin Li , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…