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Automatic lymph node segmentation is the cornerstone for advances in computer vision tasks for early detection and staging of cancer. Traditional segmentation methods are constrained by manual delineation and variability in operator…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Jingguo Qu , Xinyang Han , Man-Lik Chui , Yao Pu , Simon Takadiyi Gunda , Ziman Chen , Jing Qin , Ann Dorothy King , Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu , Jing Cai , Michael Tin-Cheung Ying

The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Tim Scherr , Katharina Löffler , Moritz Böhland , Ralf Mikut

Over the last decade, electron microscopy has improved up to a point that generating high quality gigavoxel sized datasets only requires a few hours. Automated image analysis, particularly image segmentation, however, has not evolved at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Joris Roels , Yvan Saeys

Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Kaisar Kushibar , Sergi Valverde , Sandra Gonzalez-Villa , Jose Bernal , Mariano Cabezas , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Llado

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

Modeling the 3D structures of cells and tissues is crucial in biology. Sequential cross-sectional images from electron microscopy provide high-resolution intracellular structure information. The segmentation of complex cell structures…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-14 Jin Kousaka , Atsuko H. Iwane , Yuichi Togashi

With the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), there has been an increase in the adoption of computer vision and deep learning (DL) techniques for the evaluation of microscopy images and movies. This adoption has not only addressed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-21 Binghao Chai , Christoforos Efstathiou , Haoran Yue , Viji M. Draviam

Cell nuclei segmentation is one of the most important tasks in the analysis of biomedical images. With ever-growing sizes and amounts of three-dimensional images to be processed, there is a need for better and faster segmentation methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Julian Arz , Peter Sanders , Johannes Stegmaier , Ralf Mikut

Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment planning, yet developing robust segmentation models often requires substantial computational resources and large datasets. Existing research shows that pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Paul Zaha , Lars Böcking , Simeon Allmendinger , Leopold Müller , Niklas Kühl

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Shortcut learning is a phenomenon where machine learning models prioritize learning simple, potentially misleading cues from data that do not generalize well beyond the training set. While existing research primarily investigates this in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Manxi Lin , Nina Weng , Kamil Mikolaj , Zahra Bashir , Morten Bo Søndergaard Svendsen , Martin Tolsgaard , Anders Nymark Christensen , Aasa Feragen

Cell segmentation for multi-modal microscopy images remains a challenge due to the complex textures, patterns, and cell shapes in these images. To tackle the problem, we first develop an automatic cell classification pipeline to label the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wei Lou , Xinyi Yu , Chenyu Liu , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li , Siqi Liu , Haofeng Li

We consider the problem of accurately identifying cell boundaries and labeling individual cells in confocal microscopy images, specifically, 3D image stacks of cells with tagged cell membranes. Precise identification of cell boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiaxiang Jiang , Po-Yu Kao , Samuel A. Belteton , Daniel B. Szymanski , B. S. Manjunath

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Although deep encoder-decoder networks have achieved astonishing performance for mitochondria segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) images, they still produce coarse segmentations with lots of discontinuities and false positives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Zhimin Yuan , Jiajin Yi , Zhengrong Luo , Zhongdao Jia , Jialin Peng

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

One of the most common tasks in medical imaging is semantic segmentation. Achieving this segmentation automatically has been an active area of research, but the task has been proven very challenging due to the large variation of anatomy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Holger R. Roth , Chen Shen , Hirohisa Oda , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Live cell microscopy sequences exhibit complex spatial structures and complicated temporal behaviour, making their analysis a challenging task. Considering cell segmentation problem, which plays a significant role in the analysis, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Assaf Arbelle , Tammy Riklin Raviv

Accurate segmentation of electron microscopy (EM) volumes of the brain is essential to characterize neuronal structures at a cell or organelle level. While supervised deep learning methods have led to major breakthroughs in that direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Daniel Franco-Barranco , Julio Pastor-Tronch , Aitor Gonzalez-Marfil , Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia , Ignacio Arganda-Carreras

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in medical image analysis. In recent years, deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on many medical image segmentation tasks by supervised learning on large manually annotated data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Ling Zhang , Vissagan Gopalakrishnan , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers , Joel Moss , Jianhua Yao