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Multiple-surface segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is a challenge problem, further complicated by the frequent presence of weak image boundaries. Recently, many deep learning (DL) based methods have been developed…

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This paper assesses whether using clinical characteristics in addition to imaging can improve automated segmentation of kidney cancer on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). A total of 300 kidney cancer patients with…

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The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

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We developed a new and computationally simple local block-wise self attention based normal structures segmentation approach applied to head and neck computed tomography (CT) images. Our method uses the insight that normal organs exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jue Jiang , Elguindi Sharif , Hyemin Um , Sean Berry , Harini Veeraraghavan

We present an efficient deep learning approach for the challenging task of tumor segmentation in multisequence MR images. In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performances in a large variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Background: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a deep learning-based automated segmentation method for hepatic anatomy (i.e., parenchyma, tumors, portal vein, hepatic vein and biliary tree) from the hepatobiliary phase of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Karin A. Olthof , Matteo Fusagli , Bianca Güttner , Tiziano Natali , Bram Westerink , Stefanie Speidel , Theo J. M. Ruers , Koert F. D. Kuhlmann , Andrey Zhylka

Development of deep learning systems for biomedical segmentation often requires access to expert-driven, manually annotated datasets. If more than a single expert is involved in the annotation of the same images, then the inter-expert…

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors and the leading cause of cancer-related death among children. Tumor segmentation is essential in surgical and treatment planning, and response assessment and monitoring. However, manual…

Prostate cancer is the second-most frequently diagnosed cancer and the sixth leading cause of cancer death in males worldwide. The main problem that specialists face during the diagnosis of prostate cancer is the localization of Regions of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Gerardo Rodriguez-Hernandez , Christian Mata

Brain tumors pose a significant threat to human life, therefore it is very much necessary to detect them accurately in the early stages for better diagnosis and treatment. Brain tumors can be detected by the radiologist manually from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sayan Das , Arghadip Biswas

Due to cellular heterogeneity, cell nuclei classification, segmentation, and detection from pathological images are challenging tasks. In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) approaches have been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Recent rising interests in patient-specific thoracic surgical planning and simulation require efficient and robust creation of digital anatomical models from automatic medical image segmentation algorithms. Deep learning (DL) is now…

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Segmentation in 3D scans is playing an increasingly important role in current clinical practice supporting diagnosis, tissue quantification, or treatment planning. The current 3D approaches based on convolutional neural networks usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexey Novikov , David Major , Maria Wimmer , Dimitrios Lenis , Katja Bühler

Precision medicine in the quantitative management of chronic diseases and oncology would be greatly improved if the Computed Tomography (CT) scan of any patient could be segmented, parsed and analyzed in a precise and detailed way. However,…

Brains with complex distortion of cerebral anatomy present several challenges to automatic tissue segmentation methods of T1-weighted MR images. First, the very high variability in the morphology of the tissues can be incompatible with the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-25 Gabriele Amorosino , Denis Peruzzo , Pietro Astolfi , Daniela Redaelli , Paolo Avesani , Filippo Arrigoni , Emanuele Olivetti

Accurate prognosis for an individual patient is a key component of precision oncology. Recent advances in machine learning have enabled the development of models using a wider range of data, including imaging. Radiomics aims to extract…

Target segmentation in CT images of Head&Neck (H&N) region is challenging due to low contrast between adjacent soft tissue. The SegRap 2023 challenge has been focused on benchmarking the segmentation algorithms of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Mehdi Astaraki , Simone Bendazzoli , Iuliana Toma-Dasu

Since the introduction of optical coherence tomography (OCT), it has been possible to study the complex 3D morphological changes of the optic nerve head (ONH) tissues that occur along with the progression of glaucoma. Although several deep…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The segmentation of biomarkers such as layers and lesions is essential for patient diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Philipp Seeböck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunović