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Analysis of cancer and other pathological diseases, like the interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), is usually possible through Computed Tomography (CT) scans. To aid this, a preprocessing step of segmentation is performed to reduce the area to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jeovane Honório Alves , Pedro Martins Moreira Neto , Lucas Ferrari de Oliveira

Accurate localization of organ boundaries is critical in medical imaging for segmentation, registration, surgical planning, and radiotherapy. While deep convolutional networks (ConvNets) have advanced general-purpose edge detection to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aarav Mehta , Priya Deshmukh , Vikram Singh , Siddharth Malhotra , Krishnan Menon Iyer , Tanvi Iyer

Gastro-Intestinal Tract cancer is considered a fatal malignant condition of the organs in the GI tract. Due to its fatality, there is an urgent need for medical image segmentation techniques to segment organs to reduce the treatment time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Praneeth Nemani , Satyanarayana Vollala

Segmenting ultrasound images is critical for various medical applications, but it offers significant challenges due to ultrasound images' inherent noise and unpredictability. To address these challenges, we proposed EUIS-Net, a CNN network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shahzaib Iqbal , Hasnat Ahmed , Muhammad Sharif , Madiha Hena , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

We propose a novel 3D fully convolutional deep network for automated pancreas segmentation from both MRI and CT scans. More specifically, the proposed model consists of a 3D encoder that learns to extract volume features at different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Federica Proietto Salanitri , Giovanni Bellitto , Ismail Irmakci , Simone Palazzo , Ulas Bagci , Concetto Spampinato

Segmentation of lymphoma lesions is challenging due to their varied sizes and locations in whole-body PET scans. This work presents a fully-automated segmentation technique using a multi-center dataset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma…

Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography (CT) images can support radiation therapy and image-guided surgery workflows. Developing of such automatic solutions remains challenging mainly owing to complex organ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zefan Yang , Di Lin , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

Data cleaning consumes about 80% of the time spent on data analysis for clinical research projects. This is a much bigger problem in the era of big data and machine learning in the field of medicine where large volumes of data are being…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Timothy Rozario , Troy Long , Mingli Chen , Weiguo Lu , Steve Jiang

Deep convolutional neural networks for image segmentation do not learn the label structure explicitly and may produce segmentations with an incorrect structure, e.g., with disconnected cylindrical structures in the segmentation of tree-like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Shuai Chen , Antonio Garcia-Uceda , Jiahang Su , Gijs van Tulder , Lennard Wolff , Theo van Walsum , Marleen de Bruijne

Medical imaging has been employed to support medical diagnosis and treatment. It may also provide crucial information to surgeons to facilitate optimal surgical preplanning and perioperative management. Essentially, semi-automatic organ and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 K. E. Sengun , Y. T. Cetin , M. S Guzel , S. Can , E. Bostanci

Fully automatic cardiac segmentation can be a fast and reproducible method to extract clinical measurements from an echocardiography examination. The U-Net architecture is the current state-of-the-art deep learning architecture for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Gilles Van De Vyver , Sarina Thomas , Guy Ben-Yosef , Sindre Hellum Olaisen , Håvard Dalen , Lasse Løvstakken , Erik Smistad

Automatic lesion detection and segmentation from [${}^{18}$F]FDG PET/CT scans is a challenging task, due to the diversity of shapes, sizes, FDG uptake and location they may present, besides the fact that physiological uptake is also present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Yamila Rotstein Habarnau , Mauro Namías

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

Automated medical image segmentation is becoming increasingly crucial to modern clinical practice, driven by the growing demand for precise diagnosis, the push towards personalized treatment plans, and the advancements in machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Tan-Hanh Pham , Xianqi Li , Kim-Doang Nguyen

Multi-organ segmentation, which identifies and separates different organs in medical images, is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. Recently, the immense success of deep learning motivated its wide adoption in multi-organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jiahua Dong , Guohua Cheng , Yue Zhang , Chengtao Peng , Yu Song , Ruofeng Tong , Lanfen Lin , Yen-Wei Chen

Purpose: Interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) remains challenging due to the ambiguity of overlapping structures such as the lungs, heart, and bones. To address this issue, we propose a novel method for extracting fine-grained anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Constantin Seibold , Alexander Jaus , Matthias A. Fink , Moon Kim , Simon Reiß , Ken Herrmann , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In this paper, we present UNet++, a new, more powerful architecture for medical image segmentation. Our architecture is essentially a deeply-supervised encoder-decoder network where the encoder and decoder sub-networks are connected through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Zongwei Zhou , Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Nima Tajbakhsh , Jianming Liang

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network for solving the problem of imbalanced large and small organ segmentation in head and neck (HaN) CT images. To conduct radiotherapy planning for nasopharyngeal cancer, more than 10…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Yunhe Gao , Rui Huang , Ming Chen , Zhe Wang , Jincheng Deng , Yuanyuan Chen , Yiwei Yang , Jie Zhang , Chanjuan Tao , Hongsheng Li

The automatic segmentation of kidney, kidney tumor and kidney cyst on Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task due to the indistinct lesion boundaries and fuzzy texture. Considering the large range and unbalanced distribution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Cancan Chen , RongguoZhang

Anatomical segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image computing, generally tackled with fully convolutional neural networks which produce dense segmentation masks. These models are often trained with loss functions such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Nicolás Gaggion , Lucas Mansilla , Candelaria Mosquera , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante