English
Related papers

Related papers: Bottleneck Supervised U-Net for Pixel-wise Liver a…

200 papers

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in chest radiographs is essential for many computer-aided diagnosis tasks. In this paper we investigate the latest fully-convolutional architectures for the task of multi-class segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Maayan Frid-Adar , Avi Ben-Cohen , Rula Amer , Hayit Greenspan

Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

Automated medical image segmentation can assist doctors to diagnose faster and more accurate. Deep learning based models for medical image segmentation have made great progress in recent years. However, the existing models fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Lei Shi , Tianyu Gao , Zheng Zhang , Junxing Zhang

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

A brain tumor, whether benign or malignant, can potentially be life threatening and requires painstaking efforts in order to identify the type, origin and location, let alone cure one. Manual segmentation by medical specialists can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Ayan Gupta , Mayank Dixit , Vipul Kumar Mishra , Attulya Singh , Atul Dayal

Brain tumor segmentation is an active research area due to the difficulty in delineating highly complex shaped and textured tumors as well as the failure of the commonly used U-Net architectures. The combination of different neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Lanhong Yao , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

Ultrasound image segmentation faces unique challenges including speckle noise, low contrast, and ambiguous boundaries, while clinical deployment demands computationally efficient models. We propose USEANet, an ultrasound-specific edge-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jingyi Gao , Di Wu , Baha lhnaini

Until now, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, lung diseases, especially diseases such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), have become an urgent global health issue. In order to mitigate the goal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Tianzuo Hu

Accurate Couinaud liver segmentation is critical for preoperative surgical planning and tumor localization.However, existing methods primarily rely on image intensity and spatial location cues, without explicitly modeling vascular topology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chaojie Shen , Jingjun Gu , Zihao Zhao , Ruocheng Li , Cunyuan Yang , Jiajun Bu , Lei Wu

Each medical segmentation task should be considered with a specific AI algorithm based on its scenario so that the most accurate prediction model can be obtained. The most popular algorithms in medical segmentation, 3D U-Net and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shiyi Wang , Yang Nan , Felder Federico N , Sheng Zhang , Walsh Simon L F , Guang Yang

Precise segmentation of organs and tumors plays a crucial role in clinical applications. It is a challenging task due to the irregular shapes and various sizes of organs and tumors as well as the significant class imbalance between the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Ziqiang Li , Hong Pan , Yaping Zhu , A. K. Qin

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

The process of annotating relevant data in the field of digital microscopy can be both time-consuming and especially expensive due to the required technical skills and human-expert knowledge. Consequently, large amounts of microscopic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Asmaa Haja , Eric Brouwer , Lambert Schomaker

Accurate automatic liver and tumor segmentation plays a vital role in treatment planning and disease monitoring. Recently, deep convolutional neural network (DCNNs) has obtained tremendous success in 2D and 3D medical image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeyu Ma , Yanjie Liu , Zeng Zeng , Pierce KH Chow

Accurately segmenting a variety of clinically significant lesions from whole body computed tomography (CT) scans is a critical task on precision oncology imaging, denoted as universal lesion segmentation (ULS). Manual annotation is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Youbao Tang , Jinzheng Cai , Ke Yan , Lingyun Huang , Guotong Xie , Jing Xiao , Jingjing Lu , Gigin Lin , Le Lu

Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Raunak Dey , Yi Hong

The brain tumor segmentation task aims to classify tissue into the whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET) classes using multimodel MRI images. Quantitative analysis of brain tumors is critical for clinical decision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Saqib Qamar , Parvez Ahmad , Linlin Shen

Early diagnosis and analysis of lung cancer involve a precise and efficient lung nodule segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. However, the anonymous shapes, visual features, and surroundings of the nodule in the CT image pose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Samson Anosh Babu P , Chandra Sekhara Rao Annavarapu

Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang