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Efficient intravascular access in trauma and critical care significantly impacts patient outcomes. However, the availability of skilled medical personnel in austere environments is often limited. Autonomous robotic ultrasound systems can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Rohini Banerjee , Cecilia G. Morales , Artur Dubrawski

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Deep learning-based segmentation methods are widely utilized for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. Throughout the imaging procedure, the attenuation and scattering of ultrasound waves cause contour blurring and the formation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Ruiguo Yu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Zhiqiang Liu , Xuewei Li , Jie Gao

Separating and labeling each instance of a nucleus (instance-aware segmentation) is the key challenge in segmenting single cell nuclei on fluorescence microscopy images. Deep Neural Networks can learn the implicit transformation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Florian Kromp , Lukas Fischer , Eva Bozsaky , Inge Ambros , Wolfgang Doerr , Sabine Taschner-Mandl , Peter Ambros , Allan Hanbury

Accurate segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an essential step for radiomic analysis as well as developing advanced surgical planning techniques. In clinical analysis, the segmentation is currently performed by clinicians from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Wenshuai Zhao , Dihong Jiang , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

We present an approach for fully automatic urinary bladder segmentation in CT images with artificial neural networks in this study. Automatic medical image analysis has become an invaluable tool in the different treatment stages of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Christina Gsaxner , Peter M. Roth , Jürgen Wallner , Jan Egger

Deep learning has shown its great promise in various biomedical image segmentation tasks. Existing models are typically based on U-Net and rely on an encoder-decoder architecture with stacked local operators to aggregate long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zhengyang Wang , Na Zou , Dinggang Shen , Shuiwang Ji

Image segmentation is a branch of computer vision that is widely used in real world applications including biomedical image processing. With recent advancement of deep learning, image segmentation has achieved at a very high level…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Nima Hassanpour , Abouzar Ghavami

Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hana Sebia , Thomas Guyet , Mickaël Pereira , Marco Valdebenito , Hugues Berry , Benjamin Vidal

Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-31 Mo Zhang , Xiang Li , Mengjia Xu , Quanzheng Li

U-Net has been the go-to architecture for medical image segmentation tasks, however computational challenges arise when extending the U-Net architecture to 3D images. We propose the Implicit U-Net architecture that adapts the efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Sergio Naval Marimont , Giacomo Tarroni

Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image segmentation tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Debesh Jha , Michael A. Riegler , Dag Johansen , Pål Halvorsen , Håvard D. Johansen

This paper presents a deep-learning model for deformable registration of ultrasound images at online rates, which we call U-RAFT. As its name suggests, U-RAFT is based on RAFT, a convolutional neural network for estimating optical flow.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 FNU Abhimanyu , Andrew L. Orekhov , Ananya Bal , John Galeotti , Howie Choset

Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Walid Ehab , Yongmin Li

Fully convolutional neural networks like U-Net have been the state-of-the-art methods in medical image segmentation. Practically, a network is highly specialized and trained separately for each segmentation task. Instead of a collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Chao Huang , Hu Han , Qingsong Yao , Shankuan Zhu , S. Kevin Zhou

Ultrasonic imaging algorithms used in many clinical and industrial applications consist of three steps: A data pre-processing, an image formation and an image post-processing step. For efficiency, image formation often relies on an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Kees Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Accurately segmenting lesions in ultrasound images is challenging due to the difficulty in distinguishing boundaries between lesions and surrounding tissues. While deep learning has improved segmentation accuracy, there is limited focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Guoping Xu , Ximing Wu , Wentao Liao , Xinglong Wu , Qing Huang , Chang Li

The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yanming Guo

Medical imaging refers to the technologies and methods utilized to view the human body and its inside, in order to diagnose, monitor, or even treat medical disorders. This paper aims to explore the application of deep learning techniques in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ketan Suhaas Saichandran

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar