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It has been shown that for automated PAP-smear image classification, nucleus features can be very informative. Therefore, the primary step for automated screening can be cell-nuclei detection followed by segmentation of nuclei in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Srishti Gautam , Harinarayan K. K. , Nirmal Jith , Anil K. Sao , Arnav Bhavsar , Adarsh Natarajan

Background and Objective: Accurate detection of breast masses in mammography images is critical to diagnose early breast cancer, which can greatly improve the patients survival rate. However, it is still a big challenge due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Haichao Cao

Coronary Artery Diseases although preventable are one of the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Due to the onerous nature of diagnosis, tackling CADs has proved challenging. This study addresses the automation of resource-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sandesh Pokhrel , Sanjay Bhandari , Eduard Vazquez , Yash Raj Shrestha , Binod Bhattarai

Recently, large foundation models trained on vast datasets have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in feature extraction and general feature representation. The ongoing advancements in deep learning-driven large models have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Meiqi Hu , Lingzhi Lu , Chengxi Han , Xiaoping Liu

Accurate segmentation and motion estimation of myocardium have always been important in clinic field, which essentially contribute to the downstream diagnosis. However, existing methods cannot always guarantee the shape integrity for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xiaoling Hu , Xiao Chen , Yikang Liu , Eric Z. Chen , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Diffusion models have enabled remarkably high-quality medical image generation, yet it is challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated images. To this end, we propose a diffusion model-based method that supports…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Nicholas Konz , Yuwen Chen , Haoyu Dong , Maciej A. Mazurowski

A breast neoplasia is often marked by the presence of microcalcifications and massive lesions in the mammogram: hence the need for tools able to recognize such lesions at an early stage. Our collaboration, among italian physicists and…

Mass abnormality segmentation is a vital step for the medical diagnostic process and is attracting more and more the interest of many research groups. Currently, most of the works achieved in this area have used the Gray Level Co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Khamsa Djaroudib , Abdelmalik Taleb Ahmed , Abdelmadjid Zidani

We present a new supervised image classification method applicable to a broad class of image deformation models. The method makes use of the previously described Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (R-CDT) for image data, whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mohammad Shifat-E-Rabbi , Xuwang Yin , Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Shiying Li , Soheil Kolouri , Akram Aldroubi , Jonathan M. Nichols , Gustavo K. Rohde

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. The most common screening technology is mammography. To reduce the cost and workload of radiologists, we propose a computer aided detection approach for classifying and localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Pengcheng Xi , Chang Shu , Rafik Goubran

Non-invasive detection of cardiovascular disorders from radiology scans requires quantitative image analysis of the heart and its substructures. There are well-established measurements that radiologists use for diseases assessment such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-04 Aliasghar Mortazi , Jeremy Burt , Ulas Bagci

Digital pathology and microscopy image analysis are widely employed in the segmentation of digitally scanned IHC slides, primarily to identify cancer and pinpoint regions of interest (ROI) indicative of tumor presence. However, current ROI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Akash Modi , Sumit Kumar Jha , Purnendu Mishra , Rajiv Kumar , Kiran Aatre , Gursewak Singh , Shubham Mathur

Our work tackles the fundamental challenge of image segmentation in computer vision, which is crucial for diverse applications. While supervised methods demonstrate proficiency, their reliance on extensive pixel-level annotations limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Boujemaa Guermazi , Naimul Khan

Deploying off-the-shelf segmentation networks on biomedical data has become common practice, yet if structures of interest in an image sequence are visible only temporarily, existing frame-by-frame methods fail. In this paper, we provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Özgün Çiçek , Yassine Marrakchi , Enoch Boasiako Antwi , Barbara Di Ventura , Thomas Brox

Image segmentation, one of the most critical vision tasks, has been studied for many years. Most of the early algorithms are unsupervised methods, which use hand-crafted features to divide the image into many regions. Recently, owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qinghong Lin , Weichan Zhong , Jianglin Lu

Cluster of microcalcifications can be an early sign of breast cancer. In this paper we propose a novel approach based on convolutional neural networks for the detection and segmentation of microcalcification clusters. In this work we used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Gabriele Valvano , Gianmarco Santini , Nicola Martini , Andrea Ripoli , Chiara Iacconi , Dante Chiappino , Daniele Della Latta

This study addresses the essential task of medical image segmentation, which involves the automatic identification and delineation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images. Accurate segmentation is crucial in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seyedeh Sahar Taheri Otaghsara , Reza Rahmanzadeh

Training of semantic segmentation models for material analysis requires micrographs and their corresponding masks. It is quite unlikely that perfect masks will be drawn, especially at the edges of objects, and sometimes the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Matias Oscar Volman Stern , Dominic Hohs , Andreas Jansche , Timo Bernthaler , Gerhard Schneider

Breast tumor segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer detection because accurate tumor size, shape and location are important for further tumor quantification and classification. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Bryar Shareef , Alex Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe E. Freer

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…