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One of the essential tasks in medical image analysis is segmentation and accurate detection of borders. Lesion segmentation in skin images is an essential step in the computerized detection of skin cancer. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Shima Rafiei , Mohammad H. Jafari , Nader Karimi , James S. Wrobel , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Automated skin lesion segmentation and classification are two most essential and related tasks in the computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Despite their prevalence, deep learning models are usually designed for only one task, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yutong Xie , Jianpeng Zhang , Yong Xia , Chunhua Shen

Brain lesion segmentation plays an essential role in neurological research and diagnosis. As brain lesions can be caused by various pathological alterations, different types of brain lesions tend to manifest with different characteristics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Xinru Zhang , Ni Ou , Berke Doga Basaran , Marco Visentin , Mengyun Qiao , Renyang Gu , Cheng Ouyang , Yaou Liu , Paul M. Matthew , Chuyang Ye , Wenjia Bai

Ultrasound images are one of the most widely used techniques in clinical settings to analyze and detect different organs for study or diagnoses of diseases. The dependence on subjective opinions of experts such as radiologists calls for an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Ruturaj Gole , Haixia Wu , Subho Ghose

Extracting, harvesting and building large-scale annotated radiological image datasets is a greatly important yet challenging problem. It is also the bottleneck to designing more effective data-hungry computing paradigms (e.g., deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Ke Yan , Xiaosong Wang , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers

Medical image segmentation is a critical component in clinical practice, facilitating accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, existing methods, often tailored to specific modalities or disease types, lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jun Ma , Yuting He , Feifei Li , Lin Han , Chenyu You , Bo Wang

Object detection and semantic segmentation are pivotal components in biomedical image analysis. Current single-task networks exhibit promising outcomes in both detection and segmentation tasks. Multi-task networks have gained prominence due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Suizhi Huang , Shalayiding Sirejiding , Yuxiang Lu , Yue Ding , Leheng Liu , Hui Zhou , Hongtao Lu

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-kernel estimation by enhancing the KernelGAN algorithm, which traditionally estimates a single kernel for the entire image. We introduce Multi-KernelGAN, which extends KernelGAN's capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haim Goldfisher , Asaf Yekutiel

A Multilayer Network (MN) is a system consisting of several topological levels (i.e., layers) representing the interactions between the system's objects and the related interdependency. Therefore, it may be represented as a set of layers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Marianna Milano , Pietro Cinaglia , Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Mario Cannataro

Size measurements of tumor manifestations on follow-up CT examinations are crucial for evaluating treatment outcomes in cancer patients. Efficient lesion segmentation can speed up these radiological workflows. While numerous benchmarks and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 M. J. J. de Grauw , E. Th. Scholten , E. J. Smit , M. J. C. M. Rutten , M. Prokop , B. van Ginneken , A. Hering

Corrosion detection on metal constructions is a major challenge in civil engineering for quick, safe and effective inspection. Existing image analysis approaches tend to place bounding boxes around the defected region which is not adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Iason Katsamenis , Eftychios Protopapadakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Nikolaos Doulamis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Segmentation of skin lesions is considered as an important step in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for automated melanoma diagnosis. In recent years, segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Breast lesions segmentation is an important step of computer-aided diagnosis system, and it has attracted much attention. However, accurate segmentation of malignant breast lesions is a challenging task due to the effects of heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Gongping Chen , Yuming Liu , Yu Dai , Jianxun Zhang , Liang Cui , Xiaotao Yin

Early detection of skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is crucial to enable advanced treatment. Due to the rapid growth in the numbers of skin cancers, there is a growing need of computerized analysis for skin lesions. The state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Manu Goyal , Amanda Oakley , Priyanka Bansal , Darren Dancey , Moi Hoon Yap

Universal lesion detection and tagging (ULDT) in CT studies is critical for tumor burden assessment and tracking the progression of lesion status (growth/shrinkage) over time. However, a lack of fully annotated data hinders the development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alexander Shieh , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Jianfei Liu , Angshuman Paul , Ronald M. Summers

The morphology of glands has been used routinely by pathologists to assess the malignancy degree of adenocarcinomas. Accurate segmentation of glands from histology images is a crucial step to obtain reliable morphological statistics for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Hao Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Lequan Yu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Bone segmentation from CT images is a task that has been worked on for decades. It is an important ingredient to several diagnostics or treatment planning approaches and relevant to various diseases. As high-quality manual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 André Klein , Jan Warszawski , Jens Hillengaß , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Automated brain lesions detection is an important and very challenging clinical diagnostic task because the lesions have different sizes, shapes, contrasts, and locations. Deep Learning recently has shown promising progress in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mina Rezaei , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Wound image segmentation is a critical component for the clinical diagnosis and in-time treatment of wounds. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream methodology for wound image segmentation. However, the pre-processing of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Honghui Liu , Changjian Wang , Kele Xu , Fangzhao Li , Ming Feng , Yuxing Peng , Hongjun He

Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully…