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In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) has shown promising results in conducting AI tasks such as computer vision and image segmentation. Specifically, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models in DL have been applied to prevention,detection,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Ahmed Awad Albishri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shah , Anthony Schmiedler , Seung Suk Kang , Yugyung Lee

Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Georgia Kenyon , Stephan Lau , Michael A. Chappell , Mark Jenkinson

Background: Brain tumor segmentation has a significant impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. Accurate brain tumor segmentation remains challenging due to their irregular shapes, vague boundaries, and high variability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhanyuan Jia , Ni Yao , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

Automatic identification of brain lesions from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of stroke survivors would be a useful aid in patient diagnosis and treatment planning. We propose a multi-modal multi-path convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yunzhe Xue , Fadi G. Farhat , Olga Boukrina , A . M. Barrett , Jeffrey R. Binder , Usman W. Roshan , William W. Graves

The midline related pathological image features are crucial for evaluating the severity of brain compression caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI). The automated midline delineation not only improves the assessment and clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Shen Wang , Kongming Liang , Chengwei Pan , Chuyang Ye , Xiuli Li , Feng Liu , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Whole brain segmentation on a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in non-invasive investigation for neuroanatomy. Historically, multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) has been regarded as the de facto standard method for whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Yuankai Huo , Zhoubing Xu , Katherine Aboud , Prasanna Parvathaneni , Shunxing Bao , Camilo Bermudez , Susan M. Resnick , Laurie E. Cutting , Bennett A. Landman

Accurate segmentation and classification of brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) remain key challenges in medical image analysis, primarily due to the lack of high-quality, balanced, and diverse datasets with expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Amirreza Fateh , Yasin Rezvani , Sara Moayedi , Sadjad Rezvani , Fatemeh Fateh , Mansoor Fateh , Vahid Abolghasemi

We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Min Tang , Zichen Zhang , Dana Cobzas , Martin Jagersand , Jacob L. Jaremko

Segmentations are crucial in medical imaging to obtain morphological, volumetric, and radiomics biomarkers. Manual segmentation is accurate but not feasible in the radiologist's clinical workflow, while automatic segmentation generally…

Background: In the field of radiology and radiotherapy, accurate delineation of tissues and organs plays a crucial role in both diagnostics and therapeutics. While the gold standard remains expert-driven manual segmentation, many automatic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Szuzina Fazekas , Bettina Katalin Budai , Viktor Bérczi , Pál Maurovich-Horvat , Zsolt Vizi

Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lukas Hirsch , Yu Huang , Lucas C Parra

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

Methods: Our deep learning model, called AnatomyNet, segments OARs from head and neck CT images in an end-to-end fashion, receiving whole-volume HaN CT images as input and generating masks of all OARs of interest in one shot. AnatomyNet is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Wentao Zhu , Yufang Huang , Liang Zeng , Xuming Chen , Yong Liu , Zhen Qian , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Xiaohui Xie

Skullstripping is defined as the task of segmenting brain tissue from a full head magnetic resonance image~(MRI). It is a critical component in neuroimage processing pipelines. Downstream deformable registration and whole brain segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Amod Jog , P. Ellen Grant , Joseph L. Jacobson , Andre van der Kouwe , Ernesta M. Meintjes , Bruce Fischl , Lilla Zöllei

The skull segmentation from CT scans can be seen as an already solved problem. However, in MR this task has a significantly greater complexity due to the presence of soft tissues rather than bones. Capturing the bone structures from MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Kamil Kwarciak , Mateusz Daniol , Daria Hemmerling , Marek Wodzinski

Automated CT report generation plays a crucial role in improving diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflow efficiency. However, existing methods lack interpretability and impede patient-clinician understanding, while their static nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Yannian Gu , Wenhui Lei , Hanyu Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Precise segmentation of the liver is critical for computer-aided diagnosis such as pre-evaluation of the liver for living donor-based transplantation surgery. This task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, countless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Supriti Mulay , Deepika G , Jeevakala S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Brain extraction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is an important segmentation step in many neuroimaging preprocessing pipelines. Image segmentation is one of the research fields in which deep learning had the biggest impact in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Lukas Fisch , Stefan Zumdick , Carlotta Barkhau , Daniel Emden , Jan Ernsting , Ramona Leenings , Kelvin Sarink , Nils R. Winter , Benjamin Risse , Udo Dannlowski , Tim Hahn

Automated brain tumor segmentation methods have become well-established and reached performance levels offering clear clinical utility. These methods typically rely on four input magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities: T1-weighted…