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Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

It is common in anthropology and paleontology to address questions about extant and extinct species through the quantification of osteological features observable in micro-computed tomographic (micro-CT) scans. In cases where remains were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Yung-Chen Sun , Nicholas B. Stephens , Timothy Ryan , Vishal Monga

Computed Tomography (CT) based precise prostate segmentation for treatment planning is challenging due to (1) the unclear boundary of the prostate derived from CT's poor soft tissue contrast and (2) the limitation of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Chengyin Li , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hassan Bagher-Ebadian , Prashant Khanduri , Indrin J. Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is a leading form of Head-and-Neck (HAN) cancer in the Arctic, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East/North Africa. Accurate segmentation of Organs-at-Risk (OAR) from Computed Tomography (CT) images with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Wenhui Lei , Haochen Mei , Zhengwentai Sun , Shan Ye , Ran Gu , Huan Wang , Rui Huang , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

Brain tissue segmentation has demonstrated great utility in quantifying MRI data through Voxel-Based Morphometry and highlighting subtle structural changes associated with various conditions within the brain. However, manual segmentation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Vishwanatha M. Rao , Zihan Wan , Soroush Arabshahi , David J. Ma , Pin-Yu Lee , Ye Tian , Xuzhe Zhang , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

Advances in image registration and machine learning have recently enabled volumetric analysis of postmortem brain tissue from conventional photographs of coronal slabs, which are routinely collected in brain banks and neuropathology…

Purpose: To develop an open-source, fully-automatic deep learning algorithm, DeepGPET, for choroid region segmentation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) data. Methods: We used a dataset of 715 OCT B-scans (82 subjects, 115 eyes) from 3…

Tumor segmentation in PET-CT images is challenging due to the dual nature of the acquired information: low metabolic information in CT and low spatial resolution in PET. U-Net architecture is the most common and widely recognized approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Simone Bendazzoli , Mehdi Astaraki

Fingerprint recognition has been utilized for cellphone authentication, airport security and beyond. Many different features and algorithms have been proposed to improve fingerprint recognition. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Shervin Minaee , Elham Azimi , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves remarkable performance for medical image analysis. UNet is the primary source in the performance of 3D CNN architectures for medical imaging tasks, including brain tumor segmentation. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Parvez Ahmad , Saqib Qamar , Linlin Shen , Adnan Saeed

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the optimal identification of correlated segments in noisy correlation matrices. The proposed model is known as CoSeNet (Correlation Seg-mentation Network) and is based on a four-layer…

Purpose: (1) To develop a deep learning algorithm to identify major tissue structures of the optic nerve head (ONH) in 3D optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans; (2) to exploit such information to robustly differentiate among healthy,…

In ophthalmology, the study of the retinal microcirculation is a key issue in the analysis of many ocular and systemic diseases, like hypertension or diabetes. This motivates the research on improving the retinal vasculature segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Noelia Barreira , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

Biomedical image segmentation is a critical task in medical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling precise delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions. Despite significant advancements, challenges persist due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

Many eye diseases like Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and Glaucoma manifest in the retina, can cause irreversible blindness or severely impair the central version. The Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great interest for diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. To further improve the performance of vessel segmentation, we propose IterNet, a new model based on UNet, with the ability to find obscured details…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara , Ryo Kawasaki

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in color fundus image analysis. An automatic retinal vessel segmentation system can effectively facilitate clinical diagnosis and ophthalmological research. Technically, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Muyi Sun , Guanhong Zhang

There has been a steady increase in the incidence of skin cancer worldwide, with a high rate of mortality. Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions are crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , Andreas Maier

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides a unique ability to image the eye retina in 3D at micrometer resolution and gives ophthalmologist the ability to visualize retinal diseases such as Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Stefanos Apostolopoulos , Carlos Ciller , Sandro I. De Zanet , Sebastian Wolf , Raphael Sznitman

Accurate segmentation of medical images into anatomically meaningful regions is critical for the extraction of quantitative indices or biomarkers. The common pipeline for segmentation comprises regions of interest detection stage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ghada Zamzmi , Vandana Sachdev , Sameer Antani