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Using multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is necessary for accurate brain tumor segmentation. The main problem is that not all types of MRIs are always available in clinical exams. Based on the fact that there is a strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Pierre Vera , Su Ruan

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

This paper introduces a novel segmentation framework that integrates a classifier network with a reverse HRNet architecture for efficient image segmentation. Our approach utilizes a ResNet-50 backbone, pretrained in a semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Anupam Gupta , Ashok Krishnamurthy , Lisa Singh

In this study, we propose LDMRes-Net, a lightweight dual-multiscale residual block-based computational neural network tailored for medical image segmentation on IoT and edge platforms. Conventional U-Net-based models face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Muhammad Usman , Imran Razzak

Instance segmentation is an important task for biomedical and biological image analysis. Due to the complicated background components, the high variability of object appearances, numerous overlapping objects, and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dongnan Liu , Donghao Zhang , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease development monitoring because it provides precise morphological and spatial information on anatomical structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moin Safdar , Shahzaib Iqbal , Mubeen Ghafoor , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak , Thantrira Porntaveetus , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny

Since medical image data sets contain few samples and singular features, lesions are viewed as highly similar to other tissues. The traditional neural network has a limited ability to learn features. Even if a host of feature maps is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hongfeng You , Long Yu , Shengwei Tian , Xiang Ma , Yan Xing , Xiaojie Ma

Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Accurate segmentation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is vital for safe and precise radiotherapy and surgery. Most existing studies segment only a limited set of organs or regions, lacking a systematic treatment of OARs segmentation. We present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Rui Hao , Dayu Tan , Qiankun Li , Chunhou Zheng , Weimin Zhong , Zhigang Zeng

Deep learning has revolutionized biomedical research by providing sophisticated methods to handle complex, high-dimensional data. Multimodal deep learning (MDL) further enhances this capability by integrating diverse data types such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Valerio Guarrasi , Fatih Aksu , Camillo Maria Caruso , Francesco Di Feola , Aurora Rofena , Filippo Ruffini , Paolo Soda

Deep learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation, yet achieving robust generalization across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical structures remains a major challenge. A key contributor to this limitation lies in how…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Shams Nafisa Ali , Taufiq Hasan

Ferrograph image segmentation is of significance for obtaining features of wear particles. However, wear particles are usually overlapped in the form of debris chains, which makes challenges to segment wear debris. An overlapping wear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Peng Peng , Jiugen Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks have become a cornerstone of medical image analysis due to their proficiency in learning hierarchical spatial features. However, this focus on a single domain is inefficient at capturing global, holistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Automatic segmentation of fine-grained brain structures remains a challenging task. Current segmentation methods mainly utilize 2D and 3D deep neural networks. The 2D networks take image slices as input to produce coarse segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Yuemeng Li , Hangfan Liu , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

With the rapid development of deep learning and computer vision technologies, medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the characteristics of breast ultrasound images, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiajun Ding , Beiyao Zhu , Wenjie Wang , Shurong Zhang , Dian Zhua , Zhao Liua

Magnetic resonance (MR) protocols rely on several sequences to assess pathology and organ status properly. Despite advances in image analysis, we tend to treat each sequence, here termed modality, in isolation. Taking advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Agisilaos Chartsias , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Chengjia Wang , Scott Semple , David E. Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Precise identification and detection of the Mental Foramen are crucial in dentistry, impacting procedures such as impacted tooth removal, cyst surgeries, and implants. Accurately identifying this anatomical feature facilitates post-surgery…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-12 Haider Raza , Mohsin Ali , Vishal Krishna Singh , Agustin Wahjuningrum , Rachel Sarig , Akhilanand Chaurasia

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Many recent medical segmentation systems rely on powerful deep learning models to solve highly specific tasks. To maximize performance, it is standard practice to evaluate numerous pipelines with varying model topologies, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mathias Perslev , Erik Bjørnager Dam , Akshay Pai , Christian Igel