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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects billions of lives around the world and has a significant impact on public healthcare. Due to rising skepticism towards the sensitivity of RT-PCR as screening method, medical imaging like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Dominik Müller , Iñaki Soto Rey , Frank Kramer

The ability to predict lung and heart based diseases using deep learning techniques is central to many researchers, particularly in the medical field around the world. In this paper, we present a unique outlook of a very familiar problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , David Haddad , Shikun Huang , Seongwoo Choi

3D lung segmentation is essential since it processes the volumetric information of the lungs, removes the unnecessary areas of the scan, and segments the actual area of the lungs in a 3D volume. Recently, the deep learning model, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Dhaval D. Kadia , Md Zahangir Alom , Ranga Burada , Tam V. Nguyen , Vijayan K. Asari

Chest radiography is a relatively cheap, widely available medical procedure that conveys key information for making diagnostic decisions. Chest X-rays are almost always used in the diagnosis of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia or the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Matej Gazda , Jakub Gazda , Jan Plavka , Peter Drotar

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

Efficiency of some dimensionality reduction techniques, like lung segmentation, bone shadow exclusion, and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) for exclusion of outliers, is estimated for analysis of chest X-ray (CXR) 2D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Yu. Gordienko , Yu. Kochura , O. Alienin , O. Rokovyi , S. Stirenko , Peng Gang , Jiang Hui , Wei Zeng

Fetal lung maturity is a critical indicator for predicting neonatal outcomes and the need for post-natal intervention, especially for pregnancies affected by fetal growth restriction. Intra-voxel incoherent motion analysis has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhennan Xiao , Katharine Brudkiewicz , Zhen Yuan , Rosalind Aughwane , Magdalena Sokolska , Joanna Chappell , Trevor Gaunt , Anna L. David , Andrew P. King , Andrew Melbourne

Semantic segmentation of medical images with deep learning models is rapidly developed. In this study, we benchmarked state-of-the-art deep learning segmentation algorithms on our clinical stereotactic radiosurgery dataset, demonstrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Siang-Ruei Wu , Hao-Yun Chang , Florence T Su , Heng-Chun Liao , Wanju Tseng , Chun-Chih Liao , Feipei Lai , Feng-Ming Hsu , Furen Xiao

Understanding how deep learning models predict oncology patient risk can provide critical insights into disease progression, support clinical decision-making, and pave the way for trustworthy and data-driven precision medicine. Building on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Marvin Sextro , Gabriel Dernbach , Kai Standvoss , Simon Schallenberg , Frederick Klauschen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Maximilian Alber , Lukas Ruff

Accurate segmentation of pulmonary vessels plays a very critical role in diagnosing and assessing various lung diseases. Currently, many automated algorithms are primarily targeted at CTPA (Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography) types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ying Ming , Shaoze Luo , Longfei Zhao , Ruijie Zhao , Bing Li , Qiqi Xu , Wei Song

Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tomas Sakinis , Fausto Milletari , Holger Roth , Panagiotis Korfiatis , Petro Kostandy , Kenneth Philbrick , Zeynettin Akkus , Ziyue Xu , Daguang Xu , Bradley J. Erickson

Medical imaging is an essential tool in many areas of medical applications, used for both diagnosis and treatment. However, reading medical images and making diagnosis or treatment recommendations require specially trained medical…

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A combination of traditional image processing methods with advanced neural networks concretes a predictive and preventive healthcare paradigm. This study offers rapid, accurate, and non-invasive diagnostic solutions that can significantly…

To enable more accurate diagnosis of lung disease in chest CT scans, we propose a straightforward yet effective model. Firstly, we analyze the characteristics of 3D CT scans and remove non-lung regions, which helps the model focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Qingqiu Li , Runtian Yuan , Junlin Hou , Jilan Xu , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Hao Chen

COVID-19 frequently provokes pneumonia, which can be diagnosed using imaging exams. Chest X-ray (CXR) is often useful because it is cheap, fast, widespread, and uses less radiation. Here, we demonstrate the impact of lung segmentation in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Lucas O. Teixeira , Rodolfo M. Pereira , Diego Bertolini , Luiz S. Oliveira , Loris Nanni , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Yandre M. G. Costa

The most deadly and life-threatening disease in the world is lung cancer. Though early diagnosis and accurate treatment are necessary for lowering the lung cancer mortality rate. A computerized tomography (CT) scan-based image is one of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Muntasir Mamun , Md Ishtyaq Mahmud , Mahabuba Meherin , Ahmed Abdelgawad

In this research project, we put forward an advanced method for airway segmentation based on the existent convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph neural network (GNN). The method is originated from the vessel segmentation, but we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yihua Yang

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading rapidly around the world and caused significant impact on the public health and economy. However, there is still lack of studies on effectively quantifying the lung infection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Yu Zhang

In clinical procedures, precise localization of the target area is an essential step for clinical diagnosis and screening. For many diagnostic applications, lung segmentation of chest X-ray images is an essential first step that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Mohamed Deriche , Mohammad Marufur

Applying machine learning technologies, especially deep learning, into medical image segmentation is being widely studied because of its state-of-the-art performance and results. It can be a key step to provide a reliable basis for clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ziyang Wang