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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) work very well for supervised learning problems when the training dataset is representative of the variations expected to be encountered at test time. In medical image segmentation, this premise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Neerav Karani , Ertunc Erdil , Krishna Chaitanya , Ender Konukoglu

Purpose: An approach for the automated segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in multicenter water-fat MRI scans of the abdomen was investigated, using two different neural network architectures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Taro Langner , Anders Hedström , Katharina Mörwald , Daniel Weghuber , Anders Forslund , Peter Bergsten , Håkan Ahlström , Joel Kullberg

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Yihan Zhou , Haocheng Huang , Yue Yu , Jianhui Shang

A method is proposed for converting raw ultrasound signals of respiratory organ motion into high frame rate dynamic MRI using a long-term recurrent convolutional neural network. Ultrasound signals were acquired using a single-element…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Frank Preiswerk , Cheng-Chieh Cheng , Jie Luo , Bruno Madore

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a vascular disease in which a section of the aorta enlarges, weakening its walls and potentially rupturing the vessel. Abdominal ultrasound has been utilized for diagnostics, but due to its limited image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Yordanka Velikova , Walter Simson , Mehrdad Salehi , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Philipp Paprottka , Nassir Navab

Accurate and reproducible measurements of the aortic diameters are crucial for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases and for therapeutic decision making. Currently, these measurements are manually performed by healthcare professionals,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Axel Aguerreberry , Ezequiel de la Rosa , Alain Lalande , Elmer Fernandez

Predicting depth from a monocular video sequence is an important task for autonomous driving. Although it has advanced considerably in the past few years, recent methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) discard temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Chanho Eom , Hyunjong Park , Bumsub Ham

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) pose a significant clinical risk due to their potential for rupture, which is often asymptomatic but can be fatal. Although maximum diameter is commonly used for risk assessment, diameter alone is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Utsav Ratna Tuladhar , Richard Simon , Doran Mix , Michael Richards

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

Fetal heart motion is an important diagnostic indicator for structural detection and functional assessment of congenital heart disease. We propose an approach towards integrating deep convolutional and recurrent architectures that utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Arijit Patra , J. A. Noble

The performance and diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pregnancy is fundamentally constrained by fetal motion. Motion of the fetus, which is unpredictable and rapid on the scale of conventional imaging times, limits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Junshen Xu , Molin Zhang , Esra Abaci Turk , Larry Zhang , Ellen Grant , Kui Ying , Polina Golland , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Analysing coronary artery plaque segments with respect to their functional significance and therefore their influence to patient management in a non-invasive setup is an important subject of current research. In this work we compare and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Felix Denzinger , Michael Wels , Katharina Breininger , Anika Reidelshöfer , Joachim Eckert , Michael Sühling , Axel Schmermund , Andreas Maier

Medical image segmentation often requires segmenting multiple elliptical objects on a single image. This includes, among other tasks, segmenting vessels such as the aorta in axial CTA slices. In this paper, we present a general approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Marin Benčević , Marija Habijan , Irena Galić , Danilo Babin

Due to imaging artifacts and low signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasound images, automatic bone surface segmentation networks often produce fragmented predictions that can hinder the success of ultrasound-guided computer-assisted surgical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Aimon Rahman , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

In this work, we apply an attention-gated network to real-time automated scan plane detection for fetal ultrasound screening. Scan plane detection in fetal ultrasound is a challenging problem due the poor image quality resulting in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Jo Schlemper , Ozan Oktay , Liang Chen , Jacqueline Matthew , Caroline Knight , Bernhard Kainz , Ben Glocker , Daniel Rueckert

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate a robust and clinically validated method for correcting sound speed aberrations in medical ultrasound. We propose a correction method that calculates focusing delays directly from the observed…

Modern mobile neural networks with a reduced number of weights and parameters do a good job with image classification tasks, but even they may be too complex to be implemented in an FPGA for video processing tasks. The article proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Roman Solovyev , Alexander Kustov , Dmitry Telpukhov , Vladimir Rukhlov , Alexandr Kalinin

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is commonly used to assess cardiac structure and function. One disadvantage of CMR is that post-processing of exams is tedious. Without automation, precise assessment of cardiac function via CMR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Jesse Lieman-Sifry , Matthieu Le , Felix Lau , Sean Sall , Daniel Golden

Manual estimation of fetal Head Circumference (HC) from Ultrasound (US) is a key biometric for monitoring the healthy development of fetuses. Unfortunately, such measurements are subject to large inter-observer variability, resulting in low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Samuel Budd , Matthew Sinclair , Bishesh Khanal , Jacqueline Matthew , David Lloyd , Alberto Gomez , Nicolas Toussaint , Emma Robinson , Bernhard Kainz

Gynaecologists and obstetricians visually interpret cardiotocography (CTG) traces using the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) guidelines to assess the wellbeing of the foetus during antenatal care. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Paul Fergus , Carl Chalmers , Casimiro Curbelo Montanez , Denis Reilly , Paulo Lisboa , Beth Pineles