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Single cell segmentation is critical and challenging in live cell imaging data analysis. Traditional image processing methods and tools require time-consuming and labor-intensive efforts of manually fine-tuning parameters. Slight variations…

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Graph clustering aims to divide the graph into different clusters. The recently emerging deep graph clustering approaches are largely built on graph neural networks (GNN). However, GNN is designed for general graph encoding and there is a…

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Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This paper introduces a novel approach for automated liver tumor segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nastaran Ghorbani , Bitasadat Jamshidi , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

We herein introduce a new method of interpretable clustering that uses unsupervised binary trees. It is a three-stage procedure, the first stage of which entails a series of recursive binary splits to reduce the heterogeneity of the data…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-10-28 Ricardo Fraiman , Badih Ghattas , Marcela Svarc

Robot-guided catheter insertion has the potential to deliver urgent medical care in situations where medical personnel are unavailable. However, this technique requires accurate and reliable segmentation of anatomical landmarks in the body.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Cecilia Morales , Jason Yao , Tejas Rane , Robert Edman , Howie Choset , Artur Dubrawski

The goal of this paper is to present a new efficient image segmentation method based on evolutionary computation which is a model inspired from human behavior. Based on this model, a four layer process for image segmentation is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Roohollah Aslanzadeh , Kazem Qazanfari , Mohammad Rahmati

Spectral Clustering is one of the most traditional methods to solve segmentation problems. Based on Normalized Cuts, it aims at partitioning an image using an objective function defined by a graph. Despite their mathematical attractiveness,…

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Purpose: To improve kidney segmentation in clinical ultrasound (US) images, we develop a new graph cuts based method to segment kidney US images by integrating original image intensity information and texture feature maps extracted using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Qiang Zheng , Steven Warner , Gregory Tasian , Yong Fan

Sensing the medical scenario can ensure the safety during the surgical operations. So, in this regard, a monitor platform which can obtain the accurate location information of the surgery room is desperately needed. Compared to 2D camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ke Wang , Han Song , Jiahui Zhang , Xinran Zhang , Hongen Liao

Background Analyzing images to accurately estimate the number of different cell types in the brain using automatic methods is a major objective in neuroscience. The automatic and selective detection and segmentation of neurons would be an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Antonio LaTorre , Lidia Alonso-Nanclares , José María Peña , Javier De Felipe

Bacterial colonies can form a wide variety of shapes and structures based on ambient and internal conditions. To help understand the mechanisms that determine the structure of and the diversity within these colonies, various numerical…

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Instance segmentation of biological images is essential for studying object behaviors and properties. The challenges, such as clustering, occlusion, and adhesion problems of the objects, make instance segmentation a non-trivial task.…

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Identifying and counting blood components such as red blood cells, various types of white blood cells, and platelets is a critical task for healthcare practitioners. Deep learning approaches, particularly convolutional neural networks…

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Transformers are very powerful tools for a variety of tasks across domains, from text generation to image captioning. However, transformers require substantial amounts of training data, which is often a challenge in biomedical settings,…

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Cell formation is a critical step in the design of cellular manufacturing systems. Recently, it was tackled using a cut-based-graph-partitioning model. This model meets real-life production systems requirements as it uses the actual amount…

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The novelty of the COVID-19 disease and the speed of spread has created a colossal chaos, impulse among researchers worldwide to exploit all the resources and capabilities to understand and analyze characteristics of the coronavirus in term…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Omar Elharrouss , Nandhini Subramanian , Somaya Al-Maadeed

Understanding the complex myocardial architecture is critical for diagnosing and treating heart disease. However, existing methods often struggle to accurately capture this intricate structure from Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Mohini Anand , Xavier Tricoche

Segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopy images is a prevalent necessity in cell biology. Especially for three-dimensional datasets, manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming, motivating the need for automated methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Peter Hirsch , Dagmar Kainmueller

Efficient and easy segmentation of images and volumes is of great practical importance. Segmentation problems that motivate our approach originate from microscopy imaging commonly used in materials science, medicine, and biology. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vedrana Andersen Dahl , Monica Jane Emerson , Camilla Himmelstrup Trinderup , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

During the development of vaccines, bacterial colony forming units (CFUs) are counted in order to quantify the yield in the fermentation process. This manual task is time-consuming and error-prone. In this work we test multiple segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Thomas Beznik , Paul Smyth , Gaël de Lannoy , John A. Lee