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Glioma is one of the most common and aggressive types of primary brain tumors. The accurate segmentation of subcortical brain structures is crucial to the study of gliomas in that it helps the monitoring of the progression of gliomas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Lele Chen , Yue Wu , Adora M. DSouza , Anas Z. Abidin , Axel Wismuller , Chenliang Xu

Brain tumor segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image processing. In this work, we aim to segment brain MRI volumes. 3D convolution neural networks (CNN) such as 3D U-Net and V-Net employing 3D convolutions to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Chen Chen , Xiaopeng Liu , Meng Ding , Junfeng Zheng , Jiangyun Li

In recent years, deep learning based methods have shown success in essential medical image analysis tasks such as segmentation. Post-processing and refining the results of segmentation is a common practice to decrease the misclassifications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Ufuk Demir , Atahan Ozer , Yusuf H. Sahin , Gozde Unal

Segmentation is an essential operation of image processing. The convolution operation suffers from a limited receptive field, while global modelling is fundamental to segmentation tasks. In this paper, we apply graph convolution into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yanda Meng , Hongrun Zhang , Dongxu Gao , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoyun Yang , Xuesheng Qian , Xiaowei Huang , Yalin Zheng

The diagnosis and segmentation of tumors using any medical diagnostic tool can be challenging due to the varying nature of this pathology. Magnetic Reso- nance Imaging (MRI) is an established diagnostic tool for various diseases and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Tanvi Gupta , Pranay Manocha , Tapan K. Gandhi , RK Gupta , BK Panigrahi

Precise segmentation of teeth from intra-oral scanner images is an essential task in computer-aided orthodontic surgical planning. The state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods often simply concatenate the raw geometric attributes (i.e.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Yue Zhao , Lingming Zhang , Yang Liu , Deyu Meng , Zhiming Cui , Chenqiang Gao , Xinbo Gao , Chunfeng Lian , Dinggang Shen

Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image analysis. The endpoint is to generate the salient masks that accurately identify brain tumor regions in an fMRI screening. In this paper, we propose a novel attention gate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Tim Cvetko

The morphology and distribution of microcalcifications in a cluster are the most important characteristics for radiologists to diagnose breast cancer. However, it is time-consuming and difficult for radiologists to identify these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Hao Du , Melissa Min-Szu Yao , Liangyu Chen , Wing P. Chan , Mengling Feng

Automatic pancreas segmentation in radiology images, eg., computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is frequently required by computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and quantitative assessment. Yet pancreas is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jinzheng Cai , Le Lu , Fuyong Xing , Lin Yang

Image-based characterization and disease understanding involve integrative analysis of morphological, spatial, and topological information across biological scales. The development of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) has created the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Kexin Ding , Mu Zhou , Zichen Wang , Qiao Liu , Corey W. Arnold , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitri N. Metaxas

International initiatives such as METABRIC (Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium) have collected several multigenomic and clinical data sets to identify the undergoing molecular processes taking place throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Teodora Reu

Tumor segmentation is a fundamental step for radiotherapy treatment planning. To define an accurate segmentation of the primary tumor (GTVp) of oropharyngeal cancer patients (OPC), simultaneous assessment of different image modalities is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Alessia De Biase , Nanna Maria Sijtsema , Lisanne van Dijk , Johannes A. Langendijk , Peter van Ooijen

Processing information on 3D objects requires methods stable to rigid-body transformations, in particular rotations, of the input data. In image processing tasks, convolutional neural networks achieve this property using…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-07 Ilia Igashov , Nikita Pavlichenko , Sergei Grudinin

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important diagnostic tool for precise detection of various pathologies. Magnetic Resonance (MR) is more preferred than Computed Tomography (CT) due to the high resolution in MR images which help in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Pranay Manocha , Snehal Bhasme , Tanvi Gupta , BK Panigrahi , Tapan K. Gandhi

Precise segmentation of bladder walls and tumor regions is an essential step towards non-invasive identification of tumor stage and grade, which is critical for treatment decision and prognosis of patients with bladder cancer (BC). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Jose Dolz , Xiaopan Xu , Jerome Rony , Jing Yuan , Yang Liu , Eric Granger , Christian Desrosiers , Xi Zhang , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hongbing Lu

Determining the spread of GTV$_{LN}$ is essential in defining the respective resection or irradiating regions for the downstream workflows of surgical resection and radiotherapy for many cancers. Different from the more common enlarged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Chun-Hung Chao , Zhuotun Zhu , Dazhou Guo , Ke Yan , Tsung-Ying Ho , Jinzheng Cai , Adam P. Harrison , Xianghua Ye , Jing Xiao , Alan Yuille , Min Sun , Le Lu , Dakai Jin

Accurate segmentation of critical anatomical structures is at the core of medical image analysis. The main bottleneck lies in gathering the requisite expert-labeled image annotations in a scalable manner. Methods that permit to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Yuhang Lu , Weijian Li , Kang Zheng , Yirui Wang , Adam P. Harrison , Chihung Lin , Song Wang , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , Chang-Fu Kuo , Shun Miao

This paper presents a fully automatic and end-to-end optimised airway segmentation method for thoracic computed tomography, based on the U-Net architecture. We use a simple and low-memory 3D U-Net as backbone, which allows the method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 A. Garcia-Uceda , R. Selvan , Z. Saghir , H. A. W. M. Tiddens , M. de Bruijne

Accurate delineation of the intraprostatic gross tumour volume (GTV) is a prerequisite for treatment approaches in patients with primary prostate cancer (PCa). Prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA-PET) may…

In recent years, medical image segmentation has become an important application in the field of computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we are the first to propose a new graph convolution-based decoder namely, Cascaded Graph Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Md Mostafijur Rahman , Radu Marculescu