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One of the main obstacles to 3D semantic segmentation is the significant amount of endeavor required to generate expensive point-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate manual efforts, we propose GIDSeg, a novel…

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Precise 3D segmentation of infant brain tissues is an essential step towards comprehensive volumetric studies and quantitative analysis of early brain developement. However, computing such segmentations is very challenging, especially for…

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Semantic segmentation is a critical step in automated image interpretation and analysis where pixels are classified into one or more predefined semantically meaningful classes. Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tushar Kataria , Beatrice Knudsen , Shireen Elhabian

Annotating medical images demands significant time and expertise, often requiring pathologists to invest hundreds of hours in labeling mammary epithelial nuclei datasets. We address this critical challenge by achieving 95.5% Dice score…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Varun Kumar Dasoju , Qingsu Cheng , Zeyun Yu

Precise delineation of multiple organs or abnormal regions in the human body from medical images plays an essential role in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical simulation, image-guided interventions, and especially in radiotherapy treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Shiman Li , Haoran Wang , Yucong Meng , Chenxi Zhang , Zhijian Song

Maternal-fetal Ultrasound is the primary modality for monitoring fetal development, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality annotations. To address this limitation, we propose a semi-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Fangyijie Wang , Guénolé Silvestre , Kathleen M. Curran

Accurate and automated tumor segmentation is highly desired since it has the great potential to increase the efficiency and reproducibility of computing more complete tumor measurements and imaging biomarkers, comparing to (often partial)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Ling Zhang , Yu Shi , Jiawen Yao , Yun Bian , Kai Cao , Dakai Jin , Jing Xiao , Le Lu

Machine learning has been widely adopted for medical image analysis in recent years given its promising performance in image segmentation and classification tasks. As a data-driven science, the success of machine learning, in particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chengliang Dai , Shuo Wang , Yuanhan Mo , Kaichen Zhou , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

Osteoclast cell image analysis plays a key role in osteoporosis research, but it typically involves extensive manual image processing and hand annotations by a trained expert. In the last few years, a handful of machine learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Sai Kumar Reddy Manne , Brendan Martin , Tyler Roy , Ryan Neilson , Rebecca Peters , Meghana Chillara , Christine W. Lary , Katherine J. Motyl , Michael Wan

Purpose: Manual annotations for training deep learning (DL) models in auto-segmentation are time-intensive. This study introduces a hybrid representation-enhanced sampling strategy that integrates both density and diversity criteria within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Ganping Li , Yoshito Otake , Mazen Soufi , Masashi Taniguchi , Masahide Yagi , Noriaki Ichihashi , Keisuke Uemura , Masaki Takao , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

U-Net architectures have been instrumental in advancing biomedical image segmentation (BIS) but often struggle with capturing long-range information. One reason is the conventional down-sampling techniques that prioritize computational…

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Recent studies have demonstrated the superiority of deep learning in medical image analysis, especially in cell instance segmentation, a fundamental step for many biological studies. However, the excellent performance of the neural networks…

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Deep learning has shown great promise in the ability to automatically annotate organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, for example, of the brain. However, despite advancements in the field, the ability to accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Cosmin Ciausu , Deepa Krishnaswamy , Benjamin Billot , Steve Pieper , Ron Kikinis , Andrey Fedorov

The splendid success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision is largely attributable to the availability of massive annotated datasets, such as ImageNet and Places. However, in medical imaging, it is challenging to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zongwei Zhou , Jae Y. Shin , Suryakanth R. Gurudu , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Semantic segmentation is an import task in the medical field to identify the exact extent and orientation of significant structures like organs and pathology. Deep neural networks can perform this task well by leveraging the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Abhijeet Parida , Arianne Tran , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) requires timely screening to prevent irreversible vision loss. However, its early detection remains a significant challenge since often the subtle pathological manifestations (lesions) get overlooked due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shramana Dey , Abhirup Banerjee , B. Uma Shankar , Ramachandran Rajalakshmi , Sushmita Mitra

The ability to quickly annotate medical imaging data plays a critical role in training deep learning frameworks for segmentation. Doing so for image volumes or video sequences is even more pressing as annotating these is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Laurent Lejeune , Raphael Sznitman

Accurately annotated ultrasonic images are vital components of a high-quality medical report. Hospitals often have strict guidelines on the types of annotations that should appear on imaging results. However, manually inspecting these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Yuanheng Zhang , Nan Jiang , Zhaoheng Xie , Junying Cao , Yueyang Teng

To understand biological intelligence we need to map neuronal networks in vertebrate brains. Mapping mesoscale neural circuitry is done using injections of tracers that label groups of neurons whose axons project to different brain regions.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-13 Samik Banerjee , Caleb Stam , Daniel J. Tward , Steven Savoia , Yusu Wang , Partha P. Mitra

Compressed sensing can decrease scanning transmission electron microscopy electron dose and scan time with minimal information loss. Traditionally, sparse scans used in compressed sensing sample a static set of probing locations. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeffrey M. Ede