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Towards automated retinal screening, this paper makes an endeavor to simultaneously achieve pixel-level retinal lesion segmentation and image-level disease classification. Such a multi-task approach is crucial for accurate and clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Qijie Wei , Xirong Li , Weihong Yu , Xiao Zhang , Yongpeng Zhang , Bojie Hu , Bin Mo , Di Gong , Ning Chen , Dayong Ding , Youxin Chen

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common musculoskeletal disease that requires magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for effective clinical management. However, the interpretation of MRI images heavily relies on the expertise of radiologists,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Lingrui Zhang , Liang Guo , Xiao An , Feng Lin , Binlong Zheng , Jiankun Wang , Zhirui Li

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

Forest stands are the fundamental units in forest management inventories, silviculture, and financial analysis within operational forestry. Over the past two decades, a common method for mapping stand borders has involved delineation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Håkon Næss Sandum , Hans Ole Ørka , Oliver Tomic , Erik Næsset , Terje Gobakken

Study Design: This study presents the development of an autonomous AI system for MRI spine pathology detection, trained on a dataset of 2 million MRI spine scans sourced from diverse healthcare facilities across India. The AI system…

The human spine is a complex structure composed of 33 vertebrae. It holds the body and is important for leading a healthy life. The spine is vulnerable to age-related degenerations that can be identified through magnetic resonance imaging…

Abnormalities in retinal fundus images may indicate certain pathologies such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertension, stroke, glaucoma, retinal macular edema, venous occlusion, and atherosclerosis, making the study and analysis of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Yuzhuo Chen , Zetong Chen , Yuanyuan Liu

The implication of the thalamus in multiple neurological pathologies makes it a structure of interest for volumetric analysis. In the present work, we have designed and implemented a multimodal volumetric deep neural network for the…

We propose a novel approach to image segmentation based on combining implicit spline representations with deep convolutional neural networks. This is done by predicting the control points of a bivariate spline function whose zero-set…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Oliver J. D. Barrowclough , Georg Muntingh , Varatharajan Nainamalai , Ivar Stangeby

Staging of liver fibrosis is important in the diagnosis and treatment planning of patients suffering from liver diseases. Current deep learning-based methods using abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) usually take a sub-region of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zheyao Gao , Yuanye Liu , Fuping Wu , NanNan Shi , Yuxin Shi , Xiahai Zhuang

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen

Cervical spine fractures demand rapid and accurate diagnosis for effective clinical management. This study presents an automated, end-to-end pipeline for fracture detection across cervical vertebrae (C1--C7) that assesses the feasibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fabi Nahian Madhurja , Rusab Sarmun , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Adam Mushtak , Israa Al-Hashimi , Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul

Automatic radiology report generation can alleviate the workload for physicians and minimize regional disparities in medical resources, therefore becoming an important topic in the medical image analysis field. It is a challenging task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xinyi Wang , Grazziela Figueredo , Ruizhe Li , Wei Emma Zhang , Weitong Chen , Xin Chen

We present a method to address the challenging problem of segmentation of lumbar vertebrae from CT images acquired with varying fields of view. Our method is based on cascaded 3D Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) consisting of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rens Janssens , Guodong Zeng , Guoyan Zheng

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a principal diagnostic approach used in the field of radiology to create images of the anatomical and physiological structure of patients. MRI is the prevalent medical imaging practice to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yusuf Brima , Mossadek Hossain Kamal Tushar , Upama Kabir , Tariqul Islam

Histopathology images; microscopy images of stained tissue biopsies contain fundamental prognostic information that forms the foundation of pathological analysis and diagnostic medicine. However, diagnostics from histopathology images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Aïcha BenTaieb , Ghassan Hamarneh

Coronary artery disease leading up to stenosis, the partial or total blocking of coronary arteries, is a severe condition that affects millions of patients each year. Automated identification and classification of stenosis severity from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Dinis L. Rodrigues , Miguel Nobre Menezes , Fausto J. Pinto , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Resting state fMRI is an imaging modality which reveals brain activity localization through signal changes, in what is known as Resting State Networks (RSNs). This technique is gaining popularity in neurosurgical pre-planning to visualize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sejal Ghate , Alberto Santamaria-Pang , Ivan Tarapov , Haris I Sair , Craig K Jones

Despite tremendous progress in computer vision, there has not been an attempt for machine learning on very large-scale medical image databases. We present an interleaved text/image deep learning system to extract and mine the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Hoo-Chang Shin , Le Lu , Lauren Kim , Ari Seff , Jianhua Yao , Ronald M. Summers

Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi