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Quantitative analysis of brain tumors is critical for clinical decision making. While manual segmentation is tedious, time consuming and subjective, this task is at the same time very challenging to solve for automatic segmentation methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Fabian Isensee , Philipp Kickingereder , Wolfgang Wick , Martin Bendszus , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Segmentation of brain tumors and their subregions remains a challenging task due to their weak features and deformable shapes. In this paper, three patterns (cross-skip, skip-1 and skip-2) of distributed dense connections (DDCs) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Hanxiao Zhang , Jingxiong Li , Mali Shen , Yaqi Wang , Guang-Zhong Yang

In medical imaging, segmentation and localization of spinal tumors in three-dimensional (3D) space pose significant computational challenges, primarily stemming from limited data availability. In response, this study introduces a novel data…

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In drug discovery, accurate lung tumor segmentation is an important step for assessing tumor size and its progression using \textit{in-vivo} imaging such as MRI. While deep learning models have been developed to automate this process, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Piotr Kaniewski , Fariba Yousefi , Yeman Brhane Hagos , Talha Qaiser , Nikolay Burlutskiy

Brain tumor is deliberated as one of the severe health complications which lead to decrease in life expectancy of the individuals and is also considered as a prominent cause of mortality worldwide. Therefore, timely detection and prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Tejashwini P S , Thriveni J , Venugopal K R

The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

Gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors that are treated with chemoradiotherapy and surgery. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used by radiotherapists to manually segment brain lesions and to observe their development…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Jonas Wacker , Marcelo Ladeira , José Eduardo Vaz Nascimento

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sashank Makanaboyina

The early and accurate classification of brain tumors is crucial for guiding effective treatment strategies and improving patient outcomes. This study presents BrainFusion, a significant advancement in brain tumor analysis using magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Walid Houmaidi , Youssef Sabiri , Salmane El Mansour Billah , Amine Abouaomar

Brain tumor analysis in MRI images is a significant and challenging issue because misdiagnosis can lead to death. Diagnosis and evaluation of brain tumors in the early stages increase the probability of successful treatment. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Zahra Sobhaninia , Nader Karimi , Pejman Khadivi , Shadrokh Samavi

Brain tumors are the most common solid tumors and the leading cause of cancer-related death among children. Tumor segmentation is essential in surgical and treatment planning, and response assessment and monitoring. However, manual…

We present the first study of Hyper-Connections (HC) for volumetric multi-modal brain tumor segmentation, integrating them as a drop-in replacement for fixed residual connections across five architectures: nnU-Net, SwinUNETR, VT-UNet,…

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Segmentation of ultrasound images is an essential task in both diagnosis and image-guided interventions given the ease-of-use and low cost of this imaging modality. As manual segmentation is tedious and time consuming, a growing body of…

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Training segmentation networks requires large annotated datasets, which in medical imaging can be hard to obtain. Despite this fact, data augmentation has in our opinion not been fully explored for brain tumor segmentation. In this project…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Marco Domenico Cirillo , David Abramian , Anders Eklund

Assessing the location and extent of lesions caused by chronic stroke is critical for medical diagnosis, surgical planning, and prognosis. In recent years, with the rapid development of 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks (CNN), the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yongjin Zhou , Weijian Huang , Pei Dong , Yong Xia , Shanshan Wang

Automated 3D segmentation of prostate lesions from biparametric MRI (bp-MRI) is essential for reliable algorithmic analysis, but achieving high precision remains challenging. Volumetric methods must combine multiple modalities while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Cuiling Sun , Linkai Peng , Adam Murphy , Elif Keles , Hiten D. Patel , Ashley Ross , Frank Miller , Baris Turkbey , Andrea Mia Bejar , Halil Ertugrul Aktas , Gorkem Durak , Ulas Bagci

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

Segmentation of livers and liver tumors is one of the most important steps in radiation therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma. The segmentation task is often done manually, making it tedious, labor intensive, and subject to intra-/inter-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Hyunseok Seo , Charles Huang , Maxime Bassenne , Ruoxiu Xiao , Lei Xing

Integrating 2D mammography with 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for improving breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. However, this integration is challenging due to differences in imaging modalities and the need for…

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This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

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